6103 Exposure to Environmental Hazards
(2 cr) Ramachandran
Nature, effects, and regulation of exposure to biological, physical, and chemical hazards in the environment, placing these in the context of the inter- and multi-disciplinary scientific field of environmental health as an essential
component of the wider field of public health. The course will comprise lectures, presentation of example case studies, and group discussions.
Fall, 5:45pm-7:40pm Tue Thu (first seven weeks of semester)

6104 Environmental Health Effects: Introduction to Toxicology (pdf)
(2 cr) Wattenberg
To identify the mechanisms and effects of environmental agents on human health.
Fall, 5:45pm-7:40pm Tue Thu (last seven weeks of semester)

6105 Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
(2 cr; prereq EH major or #) McGovern
Students will develop an understanding of environmental and occupational health policies, laws, key concepts and principles, proposals and approaches for regulatory reform, approaches to policy analysis, and overall phases and issues in the policy making process.
Spring, 6:00pm-7:40pm Tue

6112 Risk Analysis: Application to Risk-Based Decision Making
(3 cr; prereq PH or grad stu) Adgate
Introduction to risk in the context of regulatory decision-making.
Fall, 4:40pm-7:40pm Tue

6113 Public Policy and Risk: Strategies for Effective Decisions and Discourse
(3 cr; prereq EH or grad stu or #)
Strategies for effective decisions and discourse; introduction and overview of making policy in areas of public health and the environment characterized by substantial risk and uncertainty. Topics include the basic mathematics of decision-making under risk and uncertainty, the cognitive psychology of how people react to risk, and methods of risk communication.
Not offered 2007-08

6114 Foundation of Environmental and Worker Protection Law
(1 cr) Austin
Law is made by courts while settling disputes between private entities and by statute. We will examine traditional and constitutional law making authority of courts, legislatures, and administrative agencies. This foundation course is required before taking others in the series on environmental and worker protection law.
Fall, 4:40pm-5:30pm Wed

6115 Worker Protection Law
(1 cr; prereq PubH 6114) Austin
The course will focus on the role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history will serve as a starting point for a discussion of modern systems for protecting workers from unsafe work places and compensating them for Injuries that do occur. Law will be reviewed that protects individuals against class-based discrimination and
creates a "right" to work.
Spring, 4:40pm-6:35pm Wed (first seven weeks of the semester)

6116 Environmental Law
(1 cr; prereq PubH 6114) Austin
Several difficult legal questions arise when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging use of natural resources. Conflict also arises when the government restricts the use of property without compensating its owner. Course also considers the increasing authority of government agencies to audit business to assure compliance.
Spring, 4:40pm-6:35pm Wed (last seven weeks of the semester)

6120 Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home
2 cr) Gerberich
Injury epidemiology: analysis of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using the epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.
Spring, 8:00am-9:55am Wed

6121 Topics: Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home
(1-2 cr; prereq PubH 5194 or 6120, 6330 or 6341) Gerberich
Selected projects relevant to injury problems.
Fall, Spring; Time and place to be arranged

6122 Seminar: Safety in the Workplace
(1 cr) Gerberich
Realm of and potential risk factors for occupational safety problems; strategies for prevention and control.
Spring, 12:20pm-1:10pm Wed

6123 Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application
(2 cr) Findorff
Analyses and critique of major theories and epidemiological research pertinent to violence, including characteristics of violence and relevant risk factors, reporting and treatment protocols, and current/potential intervention efforts and prevention initiatives; emphasis on interdisciplinary contributions to violence prevention and control.
Not offered 2007-08

6130 Occupational Medicine: Principles and Practice
(3 cr; prereq Grad stu or EH major) Greaves
Pathogenesis of diseases caused by occupational hazards, evaluating work-related illnesses, overall regulatory framework governing occupational health and safety.
Spring, 5:00pm-8:00pm Wed

6131 Working in Global Health
(2 cr) Greaves
Major factors influencing health worldwide, and the interdependence of the developed and developing world in addressing health problems from a global perspective.
Fall, 6:00pm-8:30pm Wed

6132 Air, Water, Health
(2 cr) Simcik
In this course we will explore the issues related to providing adequate levels of clean air and water. Specific issues include local water quantity and quality and local air quality in both the developed and developing world, as well as global air and water quality, and policies meant to protect these resources.
Fall, 9:05am-11:00am Wed

6133 Global Health Seminar
(1 cr) Alexander
This seminar course will explore various aspects of global health from a public health perspective.
Spring, 3:35pm-5:30pm Thu

6140 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
(2 cr; prereq basic course in epidemiology and biostatistics) Church
Principles and concepts in identifying health effects in the workplace; strategies for identifying excess risk, evaluating strengths and weaknesses of research techniques, assessing bias and confounding.
Spring, 9:05am-11:00am Thu

6150 Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Field Problems
(3 cr; prereq EH major or grad stu) Nachreiner
Guided evaluation of potential health and safety problems at the worksite, recommendations and design criteria for correction; and evaluation of occupational health and safety programs.
Spring, 10:10am-1:10pm Tue

6160 Metabolomics
(3 cr; prereq Biochem, mol biol, org chem or #) Peterson
Pharmacokinetics/toxicokinetics and xenobiotic metabolism. Mechanisms by which phase I and phase II enzymes bioactivate and detoxify xenobiotics. Implications of these biochemical reactions for human health.
Spring, 3:35pm-4:50pm Mon, Wed (check spring schedule day/time may change)

6161 Regulatory Toxicology
(2 cr; prereq some background in [toxicology or pharmacology or related field] is recommended) Wattenberg
In-depth introduction to laws (and associated regulations) of U.S. federal regulatory agencies, such as CPSC, EPA, FDA, OSHA, and DOT, that both require and use toxicological data/information in their mission of protecting human and environmental health.
Spring, 6:00pm-8:00pm Mon

6170 Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety
(3 cr; prereq EH major or #) Nachreiner
Introduction to major concepts and issues in occupational health and safety. Apply public health principles and decision-making process in relation to prevention of injury and disease, health promotion of adults and protection of worker populations from environmental hazards.
Fall, 8:00am-11:00am Mon

6172 Industrial Hygiene Applications
(2 cr; prereq EH major, PubH 6170, or #) Brosseau
Recognition, evaluation, and control of occupational health and safety hazards. Practice application to specific industrial hygiene problems related to gases/vapors, aerosols, and physical agents.
Not offered 2007-08

6173 Hazard-Related Exposure to Physical Agents in the Environment
(2 cr; prereq grad stu or EH major, IH specialty or equiv preparation) Raynor
Nature, health effects, monitoring and control of physical agents in working and living environments, ionizing/non-ionizing radiations (including lasers and ultraviolet, visible and infrared light), noise and vibration, and heat and cold stress; dose, response and engineering interventions.
Spring, 4:40pm-7:40pm Mon

6174 Control of Exposure to Physical and Chemical Hazards
(3 cr; prereq EH major or grad stu, IH specialty or equiv) Raynor
Options for reducing human exposures to airborne contaminants, both gaseous and aerosol. Science and practice of general and local exhaust ventilation in workplaces and other indoor spaces. Use of air cleaners for personal respiratory protection and control of emissions to the workplace and the atmosphere.
Not offered 2007-08

6175 Industrial Hygiene Measurements Laboratory
(2 cr; prereq PubH 6171 or #) Brosseau, Ramachandran, Raynor
Broad treatment of occupational health field. Role of industrial hygienist. Emphasizes practical application of industrial hygiene concepts/methods. Lectures/demonstrations, lab exercises, project.
Spring, 12:20pm-4:25pm Wed

6176 Hazardous Materials and Waste Management
(2 cr; prereq PubH 6170 or equivalent, courses in chemistry including organic or equivalent) Brosseau
This course is concerned with the management of hazardous materials and wastes. Through lectures, case studies, workshops and field trips we Ill consider the generation, control, and disposal of hazardous materials and wastes.
Not offered 2007-08

6180 Ecology of Infectious Diseases
(3 cr) Singer
This course focuses on the ways in which host, agent and environmental interactions influence the transmission of infectious agents. Specific topics related to these microbes include: environmental dissemination, eradication and control, evolution of virulence, and use of analytical and molecular tools.
Fall, 9:05am-12:05pm Thu

6181 Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards
(2 cr; prereq PubH 6320 or PubH 6341) Hedberg,
Surveillance of food borne disease and food safety.
Spring, 3:35pm-5:30pm Tue

6190 Environmental Chemistry
(3 cr; prereq gen chem, org chem or #) Simcik
Overview of chemistry of air, water and soil, pertinent environmental problems; human and ecological multi-media exposures to chemicals in the environment.
Fall, 1:25pm-2:40pm Tue Thu

6191 Air Pollution
(3 cr; prereq one course each in Gen Chem and Organic Chem or #) Simcik
This course explores, primary and secondary sources of air pollution, transport mechanisms including meteorological effects, atmospheric transformations and loss processes. It also investigates human and ecosystem health as well nuisance effects, and reviews historical and future regulations and standards.
Spring, 1:25pm-2:40pm Tue Thu

7193 Directed Study: Environmental and Occupational Health
(1-4 cr; prereq grad stu, EH major, #) EnHS Faculty
Directed study in a topic at discretion of faculty member. Usually students and faculty agree upon an area they feel could enhance the advanced masters’ students’ educational experience.
Fall, Spring, May session, Summer; Time and place to be arranged

8100 Topics: Environmental and Occupational Health
(1-6 cr; prereq #) EnHS Faculty
New course offerings or topics of interest in environmental and occupational health.
Fall, Spring, May session, Summer; Time and place to be arranged

8120 Occupational Injury Epidemiology and Control Program (OIECP) Research Seminar
(1 cr; prereq EH major, OIPRTP specialty or equiv, PubH 6120, 6330 or 6341, 6450) Gerberich, Alexander
Facilitate student research efforts in occupational injury epidemiology and control through roundtable discussions and interdisciplinary involvement.
Fall, 12:20pm-2:15pm Fri; Spring, 12:20pm-2:15pm Fri

8140 Validity Concepts in Epidemiologic Research
(2 cr) Maldonado
In-depth examination of the conceptual basis for validity in observational epidemiologic research. We discuss how to recognize, evaluate, prevent, and correct for confounding, specification error, measurement-error bias, and selection/follow-up bias.
Fall, 12:20pm-2:15pm Tue

8141 Doctoral Seminar in Observational Inference
(2 cr; prereq 8140, doctoral student in PubH, PubH 6330 or 6341, 6340 or 6342) Church, Maldonado, Alexander
This seminar course in observational inference is designed for doctoral students in public health who are interested in practicing the fundamentals of epidemiologic inference, including methods for designing, analyzing, and interpreting epidemiologic studies. Class time will be spent critically discussing methods papers and applied papers and designing studies or parts of studies related to various areas of observational inference, including environmental and
occupational health.
Fall/Spring, 2:30pm-4:30pm Fri

8142 Epi Uncertainty Analysis
(2 cr; prereq PubH 8140) Maldonado
The course will focus on the techniques of non probabilistic and probabilistic (Monte Carlo) sensitivity analysis. This course builds on the concepts discussed in PubH 8140.
Spring, 12:20pm-2:15pm Tue

8160 Advanced Toxicology
(2 cr; prereq biochem, molecular biol, PubH 6160 or #) Toscano
Cellular and molecular mechanisms by which xenobiotics cause toxicity; investigative approaches to current research problems in toxicology and carcinogenesis.
Fall, 5:45pm-7:40pm Thu

8161 Current Literature in Toxicology
(1 cr; S-N only, prereq - 6104) Peterson
The objective of this course is for students to critically read and discuss current toxicological literature. The topics covered in this course will change every semester with the goal to learn modern methods in toxicology and develop critical thinking skills.
Fall; Time and place to be arranged; Spring; Time and place to be arranged

8170 Advanced Industrial Hygiene Applications
(2 cr; prereq EH major, PubH 6170)
Recognition, evaluation and control of occupational health and safety hazards; application of concepts to specific
industrial hygiene problems related to gases/vapors, aerosols, physical agents.
Not offered 2007-08

8194 Directed Research: Environmental and Occupational Health
(1-6 cr; prereq grad stu, EH major) EnHS Faculty
Opportunities to pursue research in environmental and occupational stresses on human health.
Fall, Spring, May session, Summer; Time and place to be arranged