REQUIRED COURSES:
Environmental Hazard Assessment
PBHL 641
This required course will provide students with a general understanding of the recognition and evaluation of chemical, physical and biological hazards. Particular emphasis will be placed on airborne hazard evaluation theory and methods. Students will become familiar with commonly used industrial hygiene equipment through participation in laboratory and field exercises.
3 credits
Occupational Toxicology
PBHL 643
Occupational Toxicology is a required course. This course will provide students with a basic understanding of the recognition and evaluation of chemical, physical and biological hazards in the environment and workplace. The course will address fundamentals of toxicology, legal implications of exposure and prevention strategies.
3 credits
Environmental Toxicology
PBHL 645
Environmental Toxicology is a required course. This course will provide students with a basic and applied understanding of the recognition and evaluation of chemical, physical and biological hazards in the environment and workplace. The course will address toxicology as it applies to environmental exposures, legal implications and prevention.
3 credits
Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology
PBHL 647
Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology for Public Health is a required course for the Masters of Public Health program of study, concentration in Environmental and Occupational Health. Students will develop an understanding of occupational and environmental epidemiologic methods. Particular emphasis will be placed on the critical analysis of published occupational epidemiologic studies. Students will gain an understanding of the most appropriate methods for assessing exposure/disease relationships for several occupational and environmental exposures and diseases.
3 credits
ELECTIVE COURSES:
Public Health Readiness and Disaster Preparedness
PBHL 648 3 credits
Public Health Readiness & Disaster Preparedness is an elective course. This course will provide students with an understanding of the recognition and evaluation of chemical, physical and biological hazards related to terror attacks, and other man-made/natural disasters.
Occupational and Environmental Cancers
PBHL 649 3 credits
Occupational & Environmental Cancers is an elective course for the Masters of Public Health and MPH program of study, concentration in Environmental and Occupational Health. It covers topics in courses of cancer, the prevention of cancer, and public policy regarding cancer.
Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases
PBHL 661 3 credits
Occupational & Environmental Diseases is an elective course for the Masters of Public Health and MPH program of study, concentration in Environmental and Occupational Health. It covers topics related to lung diseases caused by occupational and or environmental exposures.
Healthy Homes and the Built Environment
PBHL XXX 3 credits
This course will provide students with an understanding of the connection between health and housing, specifically the impact the factors of both the built environment and the indoor environment can have on the health status of the residents, especially those at risk for allergic and respiratory diseases.
Injury Prevention and Control
EOH 663 3 credits
This course examines the history of injury as one of the core public health problems in the United States. The subsequent costs and burdens to the healthcare system are explored using current information from the academic literature, local and national interest groups, and government agencies. Policy and behavioral interventions are addressed. Where possible, extensions to international settings are made.
Food Unchained: Deconstructing Human Health and Environmental Impacts
PBHL XXX 3 credits
This course will encourage us to think about what we eat, how it is grown, who precisely benefits from food policy, and how these issues affect human health and the environment. This course will cover topics such as food processing, agribusiness, CAFO, food policy and federal financing, organic and slow foods movements, migrant workers, agricultural pollution, biotechnology, nutritional evaluation, and food delivery systems. We seek to inform advocacy with sound science, emphasizing science rather than opinion as the basis for policy.
Vulnerable Populations
PBHL XXX 3 credits
The course objects are: to summarize and discuss seminal literature describing the economics, human factors, and prevention implications related to the problem of health effects for certain populations; to examine and evaluate policy solutions to address this risk using environmental and public health policy frameworks; to look at hazards in the world differently because of increased awareness of risk of environmental pollution to certain populations. In addition, Policy instruments and tools in place to protect the health of vulnerable populations, as well as issues related to equity and justice, will be critically examined.