Programs and Degrees
Environmental Quality and Health
Hazardous Substances
Human Nutrition
Industrial Hygiene
Occupational & Environmental Epid
Risk Sciences
Toxicology
Executive Degree Programs

Environmental Quality and Health

The Environmental Quality and Health (EQH) Program at the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished history, and is one of the oldest programs in the United States. It offers an up-to-date curriculum designed to equip graduates with the scientific, technological, policy, and management knowledge and skills needed to address contemporary and emerging issues in environmental and public health. The program deals holistically with how exposure and health effects of organic, inorganic, and radioactive pollutants are related to their sources, behavior, and fate in various environmental media (air, water, soil and food). The core curriculum provides the unifying themes on the basic driving forces behind environmental health problems, human activities that lead to pressures on the environment, and effects of exposure to degraded environmental conditions to human health. The EH curriculum then branches out into areas of specialization, including air pollution, environmental chemistry, environmental health management, hazardous waste, radiation biology, risk assessment, and water quality.

Teaching in the EQH Program is supported by a large and diversified research portfolio with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for basic and applied work in chemistry, biology, toxicology, air pollution, and hazardous waste. The program stresses environmental health practice and research and is one of the most highly regarded training programs in the country. Our graduates are employed in government, industry, consulting, and the non-profit sectors, both domestically and worldwide.

A dual MS degree in Environmental Health and Industrial Hygiene is available through the Hazardous Substances Academic Training Program. This unique program includes the EH academic core program as well as the Industrial Hygiene Program . Designed for students whose career interests include both environmental and occupational health, graduates have a particularly wide range a skills and capabilities and many professional opportunities.

The EH program offers training in two formats: a traditional full?time residency, and a part-time executive program. Each program is designed to meet the needs of distinct groups of trainees. The executive degree is offered through the On Job/On Campus (OJ/OC) Program designed for working students. Students obtain an MPH degree in two years with monthly meets on the Ann Arbor campus.