Environmental Exposure Assessments in Practice

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Exposure assessments are the key to linking environmental contaminants to human health. This course will provide you with a detailed overview of environmental exposure assessment and its role in providing tools and metrics for defining exposures in epidemiological studies. This includes the design of community and personal monitoring studies, the techniques and equipment used for sampling and analysis, and the interpretation of data. Simultaneously, students will develop and carry out an environmental exposure assessment in the local community and will also learn about and put into practice topics such as community engagement, community surveying, environmental justice, and public health communication strategies.