PBH 590 - Occupational and Environmental Health

Credit(s): 3

This course teaches students to understand and apply the scientific basis for occupational and environmental health. This will include an understanding of the tools used to assess environmental and occupational hazards. Students will learn to define, identify and assess environmental and occupational health hazards and the resulting health outcomes. Students will explore the history of environmental and occupational health in the United States including Public Health incidents that shaped environmental and occupational health policy. Students will evaluate case studies and historical scenarios involving environmental and occupational health exposures and outcomes.