Identify and control workplace hazards to prevent injury and illness, while promoting health and safety in workplace environments.
Address environmental risks after natural or man-made disasters.
Focus on environmental health issues like water sanitation and pollution in both domestic and international settings.
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.
Apply environmental health sciences frameworks to analyze specific mechanisms by which exposures to environmental hazards may affect human health.
Identify populations at high risk from environmental hazards using public health science approaches.
Generate evidence-based environmental health information products using audience-appropriate communication strategies.
Recommend collaborative approaches for reducing environmental exposures in populations at risk.
Examine regulatory, policy, or practice strategies to assess their [potential] role(s) in reducing human exposure to environmental hazards.
Translate environmental health data to inform policy, practice, community, or individual decisions that can mitigate environmental health threats.
Along with enrolling in all MPH core curriculum courses, Environmental Health concentrators will be required to complete 12 credit hours of coursework:
CPH 601 Environmental Health
CPH 620 Occupational Health
CPH 622 Toxic Agents and Their Implications in Public Health
CPH 660 Disease Mapping & Data Visualization
Environmental Health concentrators also will enroll in 6 credit hours of MPH electives, with course topics ranging from environ-mental epidemiology to health disparities to health policy.
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