A Master of Science degree in Environmental Health Sciences will be awarded to students upon successful completion of the curriculum. It joins the highly successful programs of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine. The program addresses the demands of a competitive global marketplace with increasing oversight, advanced information technology and increasing pressures for economic efficiency. This includes recent industry and government initiatives, such as regulations based on risk and cost-benefit analysis, pollution prevention, and environmental management systems. The program emphasizes the use of a variety of technical tools to help anticipate, prevent or mitigate environmental damage and adverse public health impacts in planning, design, construction and operational contexts.
Applicants ideally have two or more years of appropriate professional experience.
However, students can be admitted on the basis of acceptable academic preparation, and are not required to be working in or have previous experience in environmental health. The program in Environmental Health provides course work which includes courses in biostatistics, epidemiology, exposure assessment, environmental impact, health effects, risk analysis, risk communication, environmental health management systems and practices, and environmental law. Students are required to do an independent research project, in which the student investigates an environmental health problem usually related to his or her workplace.