Public Health, M.P.H. - Environmental Health Concentration

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The following MPH Environmental Health (EVHT) competencies describe the knowledge, skills, and abilities a successful graduate will demonstrate the conclusion of this MPH concentration (and the course where the competency is mastered and assessed is noted in parenthesis):

MPH EVHT 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the implications of regulations, laws, standards, and various types of policy on activities aimed at protecting environmental health. (PHPH 7150 )
MPH EVHT 2. Describe approaches to risk assessment for a wide variety of environmental hazards. (PHPH 7345 )
MPH EVHT 3. Describe major environmental and occupational contaminants, including biological, chemical and physical agents, and articulate how exposures to these contaminants interact with the environment to affect human health. (PHPH 7294 )
MPH EVHT 4. Apply biological, chemical, physical and public health principles to develop approaches for designing and maintaining health-promoting physical environments, and for assessing, preventing and controlling environmental hazards that pose risks to human health. (PHPH 7293 )
MPH EVHT 5. Identify important susceptible human sub-populations with respect to environmental exposures and the sources of variability. (PHPH 7345 )

Required MPH EVHT Concentration Courses (12 Hours)

PHPH 7150 - Environmental Health 3 Credit Hours
PHPH 7293 - Environmental Health Toxicology 3 Credit Hours
PHPH 7294 - Exposure Assessment 3 Credit Hours
PHPH 7345 - Introduction to Risk Assessment 3 Credit Hours

MPH EVHT Concentration Elective Courses (9 Hours)

Select at least 3 courses from the following list of MPH EVHT concentration approved elective courses:

PHPH 7019 - Public Health Research Methods 3 Credit Hours
PHPB 7025 - Health Disparities 3 Credit Hours
PHPH 7155 - Air Quality and the Environment 3 Credit Hours
PHPH 7280 - Infectious Disease Epidemiology 3 Credit Hours
PHPH 7297 - Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene 3 Credit Hours
PHPH 7300 - Urban Health 3 Credit Hours
PHPH 7325 - Urban Health Seminar 1 Credit Hours
PHPH 7340 - Built Environment and Health 3 Credit Hours
PHPB 7425 - Foundations of Maternal and Child Health 3 Credit Hours
PHPB 7460 - Forced Migration and Health 3 Credit Hours
PHPH 7525 - Statistical Computing 3 Credit Hours
PHPH 7600 - Global Health 3 Credit Hours
PHPH 8330 - Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology: Using Information and Data Systems 3 Credit Hours
PHPH 8350 - Biological Basis for Disease 3 Credit Hours
PHPB 8880 - Public Health Study Abroad 1 to 12 Credit Hours
or
PHPH 8880 - Public Health Study Abroad 1 to 12 Credit Hours (up to 3 credits of PHPB 8880 /PHPH 8880 may count here)
GEOS 6532 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 4 Credit Hours
GEOS 6538 - Urban Geographic Information Systems 4 Credit Hours
GEOS 6644 - Environmental Conservation 3 Credit Hours
GEOS 6784 - Global Climate Change 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 6428 - Medical Microbiology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 6451 - Aquatic Pollution and Toxicology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 6480 - Principles of Toxicology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 6484 - Laboratory Techniques in Applied and Environmental Microbiology 4 Credit Hours
NUTR 6170 - Food Safety 3 Credit Hours