Air Pollution and Public Health

Catalog description

This course describes the fundaments for examining the link between air quality and human health effects. It presents an overview of the problem of air pollution and discusses the main air contaminants with their sources, effects and fate and transport pro cess in the atmosphere. Through interactive lectures and group discussions, the course provides students the opportunity to become acquainted with ways to characterize air pollutions as well as its public health implications based on recent epidemiological or toxicological research. The course covers the main mechanisms, and existing public policies and regulations for air pollution control, as well as an introduction to climate change and its effects on public health. At the end student will be able to examine air pollution as a major environmental public health risk.