PHPH 7293 - Environmental Health Toxicology

3 Credit Hours
Description
This course surveys the fundamentals of toxicology as applied to environmental health settings. The human health consequences of exposure to toxicants in the environment, including natural, occupational, and built environments will be the overarching focus of the class. Students will learn the basics of toxicological study design and the application of these studies to environmental health policy and practice. Topics include distribution, absorption, metabolic conversion, and elimination of toxicants in the human body, as well as mechanisms of injury at the the systemic, organ, and cellular level. Detection methods for contaminants in the environment and methods of risk-based decision making in regulatory public health contexts will also be covered.