Global Environmental Health and Justice

Catalog description

This course provides a foundation of environmental health and justice by bridging scientific skills with analysis of health inequities. We will review core principles of environmental health including exposures, assessment and intervention/remediation and discuss in relation to racism, distributive justice, and representation in environmental struggles through a blend of interdisciplinary and interprofessional perspectives. Students will learn about the disproportionate burdens of environmental contamination affecting communities of color across the US and globally and will assess approaches to remediation. The first unit of the course will focus on environmental injustice and review seminal readings, laws and regulations. The second unit will discuss local and global air, water, food and land based environmental exposures. The third unit will train students to synthesize environmental health data for identifying health inequities and intervention targets.