If you have a passion for improving public health by reducing chemical exposures, engaging communities in problem-solving, or strengthening practices and policies related to environmentally-linked health challenges, consider applying to the MPH concentration in Environmental Health. Environmental Health practitioners strive to protect people and communities from physical, chemical, and biological factors that exist outside the body but contribute to disease and poor health outcomes.
As an Environmental Health concentrator, you will work with faculty who share their expertise in environmental epidemiology, air quality, occupational and environmental medicine, toxicology, children’s environmental health, injury prevention, environmental health communication and literacy, and community-engaged research.
By learning strategies to assess, reduce, control, and communicate about environmental hazards, students who pursue the Environmental Health concentration prepare themselves for careers in local and state health departments, federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. From investigating potential threats to developing health-protective recommendations to implementing and evaluating evidence-based solutions, our graduates are positioned to interpret data that can help tackle today’s most pressing challenges.
In addition to developing the MPH foundational competencies, completing a concentration in Environmental Health will help you develop critical knowledge and skills that prepare you to:
Propose strategies in determining exposure and evaluating risk for selected occupational and environmental hazards.
Propose engineering, educational, policy and enforcement strategies that reduce occupational and environmental exposures to improve health out-comes in selected populations.
Critique various literature sources for communicating issues of hazards, practice-based strategies, and environmental justice and equality.
Describe and critically assess framework methodologies for assessing, managing, and communicating risks related to occupational and environmental exposures.
Explain the general mechanisms of toxicity in eliciting a toxic response to various occupational and environmental exposures.
Along with enrolling in all MPH core curriculum courses, Environmental Health concentrators will be required to complete 9 credit hours of coursework:
CPH 601 Environmental Health
CPH 620 Occupational Health
CPH 622 Toxic Agents and Their Implications in Public Health
Environmental Health concentrators also will enroll in 9 credit hours of MPH electives, with course topics ranging from environ-mental epidemiology to health disparities to health policy.
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