Principles of Environmental Health and Exposure Assessment

Graduate / Professional

Environmental health examines how environmental conditions shape human health and how human activities, in turn, alter those conditions. A better understanding of how the environment impacts health is the first step towards developing or improving strategies for reducing harmful exposures and improving individual and community health. Central to this field is exposure assessment, the study of how individuals come into contact with chemical, physical, biological, and social stressors across indoor, outdoor, and occupational environments. This course provides an integrated introduction to environmental health concepts through the lens of exposure science, combining the history and context of environmental hazards with the tools and strategies used to measure, model, and interpret environmental exposures. T 1pm-2:50pm