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The Environmental Health Sciences major stresses the application of basic scientific principles to environmental and occupational health issues as well as providing an understanding of the regulatory, legal, and policy aspects needed to address contemporary environmental and occupational health concerns.
The M.P.H. degree is a minimum of 42 credits and the M.S. program requires a minimum of 30 credits and normally take two years to complete. The Ph.D. program is oriented for those who want a career in research and academics and includes a 24 credit dissertation requirement.
Additional required and elective courses are determined by area of study within the Environmental Health major. Students may elect a general program in environmental and occupational health, or focus in one of the following specialty areas:
Specialty Track |
Degree Options/ Curriculum |
Faculty |
Environmental Chemistry
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M.S. | Ph.D. |
Deborah Swackhamer,
Matt Simcik |
Environmental and
Occupational Epidemiology |
M.S. | M.P.H. | Ph.D. |
Bruce Alexander,
Tim Church,
Susan Gerberich,
Craig Hedberg,
George Maldonado,
Jeff Mandel |
Environmental Health Policy
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M.S. | M.P.H. | Ph.D. |
John Adgate,
Patricia McGovern |
| Environmental Infectious Diseases |
M.S. | M.P.H. | Ph.D. |
Craig Hedberg,
Randall Singer,
Michael Osterholm
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Exposure Sciences
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M.S. |
Gurumurthy
Ramachandran,
John Adgate,
Peter Raynor,
Matt Simcik,
William A. Toscano, Jr.,
Bruce Alexander,
Deborah Swackhamer |
Environmental Toxicology
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M.S. | M.P.H. | Ph.D. |
Lisa Peterson,
William Toscano,
Elizabeth Wattenberg |
General Program
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M.S. | M.P.H. |
(most EnHS faculty) |
Global Environmental Health
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M.S. | M.P.H. |
Bruce Alexander,
Ian Greaves,
Gurumurthy
Ramachandran,
Matt Simcik,
William A. Toscano, Jr., |
Industrial Hygiene
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M.S. & M.P.H. | Ph.D. |
Gurumurthy
Ramachandran,
Lisa Brosseau,
Peter Raynor
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Occupational Health Nursing
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M.S. | M.P.H. | Ph.D. |
Patricia McGovern,
Debra Olson,
Nancy Nachreiner |
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
(For Physicians) |
M.P.H. |
Ian Greaves,
Jeff Mandel,
Heidi Roeber-Rice |
Agricultural Health and Safety
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Minor Focus |
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EnHS offers three doctoral training programs; each of which supports and enhances the Ph.D. training of students in multidisciplinary fields of study and research:
Program |
Degree/ Curriculum |
Program Directors |
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Ph.D. |
Patricia McGovern,
Bryan Dowd
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Occupational Injury Prevention Research Training
Incorporates advanced training through curriculum and trainee research opportunities that involve multidisciplinary collaborations with experts in occupations injury epidemiology, engineering and human factors/ergonomics, safety, medicine, and the social sciences including occupational psychology. |
Ph.D. |
Susan Gerberich,
Bruce Alexander
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Molecular Basis of Risk Assessment
Provides transdisciplinary training in exposure, modern toxicology, epidemiology, and environmental policy that is required to develop sound health risk assessment approaches.
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Ph.D. |
William A. Toscano, Jr.,
Lisa Peterson
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The Division also offers the following joint degrees in collaboration with other university schools:
J.D. with Law School
M.A. in Health Journalism
M.S. with School of Nursing
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