Environmental Health

Catalog description

This course explores the challenges our population faces from health risks from environmental hazards, and our role in their creation and exacerbation. Students will explore the meaning of environmental health and the wealth of human health threats posed through factors in air, food, water, climate, and the built environment. The class will provide an overview of the main tools used in environmental health to understand, quantify, and minimize these health risks. Case studies from domestic and international examples will be used to illustrate variations in risk with differences in exposure pathway, mode of action, susceptibility, and regulation. Close attention will be paid to exposure distribution as it relates to social inequity and injustice. Students will examine their own role in the globalized economy of today and look for opportunities to improve on the future prognosis of environmental health. Leadership in Public Health This course aims to support MPH students in building leadership skills that can be applied in their future public health roles. Students will be encouraged to critically think about how to define and apply models of leadership, enact clear communicate and negotiation skills, supervise and empower others, guide decision -making, and collaborate effectively in teams within their future public health practice. This online self-paced course will consist of readings, recorded lectures, videos, reflections, discussions, role-play exercises, and real-world applications of public health leadership.