Air Quality Management

Catalog description

This course is designed for doctoral students from the School of Public Health. Three very useful and important components in the formulation of public policy and legislation regarding environmental air quality: (1) fate and transport of atmospheric pollutants, (2) dispersion modeling of contaminants, and (3) exposure assessment of air contaminants, will be discussed. These three components are presented and integrated from the perspective of management and policy of environmental air quality. The course wi ll be offered through lectures, discussions, written exercises, and case studies. It is expected that students apply the knowledge acquired on appropriate air quality management practices. SAAM 8020 - Current Environmental Health Issues. One (1) credit. This seminar is designed to provide the students in the Public Health Doctorate Program essential scientific and social knowledge and understanding needed to identify, deliberate, analyze, and develop alternative solutions to current, significant, environmental issues and problems of primary interest at the moment.