EnviroToxicologyEpidemiology

2 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Environmental Toxicology and Epidemiology - Principles and Applications - Toxicology is a multidisciplinary science that investigates the harmful effects of environmental stressors (chemical, physical and biological agents) on humans, animals, and the ecosystem. Toxicology has progressed from a science concerned with poisons and the harmful effects of chemical exposure to a science concerned with safety. It incorporates knowledge and methods from fundamental sciences such as exposure, metrology, chemistry biology, biochemistry, medicine, epidemiology, pharmacology, and even engineering disciplines. Toxicological and epidemiological assessments employ a multidisciplinary approach to predict what and how environmental agents will potentially cause harm to fauna and flora and how this information could help to protect public health and ecological habitats including regulatory policy-making These assessments could be extremely complicated due to several challenges.