Planetary Health and Environmental Epidemiology

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Study the human health impacts of accelerating environmental change through interdisciplinary approaches including environmental science, political science, public health and social science; engage in diverse materials from many types of examples of planetary health research, from nutrition and mental health, to infectious and non-communicable diseases. A special emphasis will be placed on environmental epidemiology. Taught in China at Duke Kunshan University. Recommended prerequisite: one quantitative methodology class (statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, or econometrics).