Environmental Health Assessments and Interventions

(3 Credits)

This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of conducting an environmental health assessment of a contaminated site and propose interventions to reduce human exposure and disease. Students will learn and be able to apply the fundamentals of conducting environmental air, soil and water sampling for hazardous chemical, physical and biological agents. In addition, a variety of environmental remediation methods and public health interventions will be introduced. Special focus will be on environmental hazards in low and middle-income countries with numerous case studies presented and discussed.