Environmental Health

Catalog description

Environmental Health. This core course examines how current environmental factors seriously impact human health. The course combines public health and systems thinking perspectives to understand the associations among environmental risk factors, human health and environmental health disparities. Students will use new knowledge to consider risk assessment and management, and how to influence decision making and policy development. Students will be required to apply systems knowledge under a global perspective and to design interventions for mitigating common regional and global communities environmental risk factors.