Environmental Toxicology

Catalog description

The course introduces students to the environmental toxicology field that study the adverse health effects caused by environmental pollutants. It covers absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of environmental chemicals, and describes the dispo sition of chemicals in the organisms and how it affects toxicity. Students will learn examples of the major environmental chemical substances and about mechanisms of toxicity. Through interactive lecture and in-class exercises students will examine methods to measure exposure, susceptibility and toxicity to these chemical and interpreted toxicology data. at the end, students will critically evaluate public health issue related to environmental hazards to characterize their effects in the ecosystem and in the population health.