Environmental Health Sciences 
The Executive Education Program - Courses
SPH Core Courses
Introduction to Biostatistics
Fundamental statistical concepts related to the practice of public health: descriptive statistics; probability; sampling; statistical distributions; estimation; hypothesis testing; chi-square tests; simple and multiple linear regression; one-way ANOVA. Use of computer in statistical analysis.
Strategies and Uses in Epidemiology
This course offers an introduction to the principles, concepts, and methods of population-based epidemiologic research. It is intended to be the introductory course for students who are NOT majoring in Epidemiology. The course will be divided into three primary sections. The first section will serve as an introduction to the basic principles of epidemiology and the measures used in epidemiology. The second section will discuss epidemiologic study design (including case-control, cohort studies) and analysis (including bias, confounding, effect modification). The third section will cover special topics that are important to an introductory understanding of epidemiology (including outbreak investigations, screening, and the role of epidemiology in public health
EHS Core Courses
Occupational Environmental Disease
Instructor: Al Franzblau
Selected topics in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of environmental and occupational disease, including coverage of toxins, exposures, organ systems, and disease. Lectures and case studies address exposures to solvents, radon, lead and other metals, asbestos and other pneumoconiotic dusts, outdoor air pollution, indoor air quality, and noise. Major health effects and disease categories covered include cancer, respiratory disease, and reproductive health. Prerequisites: basic knowledge of human physiology, and exposure assessment.
Principles of Toxicology
Principles underlying the chemical, physiological and anatomical basis of toxicity. Dose-response relationships, toxicokinetics, and biotransformation, mechanisms of cellular injury and death, organ system toxicity, developmental toxicology, genotoxicity and toxicogenomics, and chemical carcinogenesis. Principles will be illustrated where appropriate with specific examples of toxicity from environmental contaminants and pharmaceutical agents.
Principles of Exposure Assessment
This course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to assess exposure to environmental agents. Topics include the selection of study populations; the conditions under which people or other target species could be exposed; identification and quantification of exposure pathways; the design of exposure assessment strategies; integration of exposure and population information; and the evaluation of historical (exposure reconstruction), current and prospective exposures. The course focuses on occupational and environmental settings and includes chemical, biological (bacteria, fungi, pathogen) and physical agents that may be air-, water-, food- or vector-borne.
Principles of Risk Assessment
This course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to understand risk assessment methods. Students will understand the use and limitations of risk assessment in establishing exposure standards, acceptable concentrations, and the environmental criteria for hazardous substances that present a risk of carcinogenic or other health effects and the suitability of risk assessment for such purposes. The basic approaches to environmental risk assessment will be emphasized, including methods for identifying health effects, modeling of health effects, and derivation of risk estimates. Methods for dealing with uncertainties as well as limitations and criticisms of risk assessment methods will be discussed. Specific examples of risk assessments will be analyzed and critiqued.
Professional Perspectives in Environmental Health
This course provides a forum for integration of academic principles, practical skills and concepts in environmental health as related to the broader scope of public health. Students will attend presentations designed to provide information on applications of academic knowledge and integration of the public health perspective to real world problems. Students will provide oral and written reports on an approved internship, work experience or research project conducted during their academic program that focuses on the integration of public health principles and practices. This culminating capstone course will be elected during the professional student's last term in residence.
Professional Seminar in Occupational Health
Seminars in contemporary occupational health topics and issues. Presentations by noted authorities from industry, labor organizations, governments, and academia.
Additional EHS Core Courses
Industrial Hygiene
Basic concepts of industrial hygiene and occupational health hazards. Physical, chemical and radiological health stresses of the industrial environment; sources, effects, measurement, evaluation and control of exposure.
Occupational Ergonomics
Principles, concepts and procedures concerned with worker performance, health and safety. Topics include: biomechanics, work physiology, psychophysics, work stations, tools, work procedures, work standards, Musculoskeletal disorders, noise, vibration, heat stress and the analysis and design of work.
Water Quality Management
Principles of science and engineering used in the evaluation and control of water quality. Includes current legislation, types of pollution, sources and nature of pollution, introduction to water quality management practices, water supply and treatment, hydrologic concepts, effects of waste discharge on receiving waters, lake management, and water quality criteria and standards.
Environmental Impact Assessment
A comprehensive framework for predicting and evaluating environmental impacts is presented. The course emphasizes the theory, application, integration and evaluation of models simulating transport and fate of contaminants in air, surface and ground water, and soil. Case studies and computer exercises demonstrate contemporary exposure and health risk assessment problems.
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental chemistry of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere and soils. Review of physical and chemical hazards and sources, distribution, transformations, routes to man of environmental contaminants. Human exposure assessment procedures and applications in health risk analysis programs.
Principles of Radiological Health
Broad principles and practices of radiological health for environmental and occupational health generalists. Basic physics, measurement, control of radiation sources and bioeffects, risks, and control policies.
Evaluation of Chemical Hazards
Concepts and techniques related to the evaluation of occupational exposures to gases, vapors, and aerosols. Emphasis on operating mechanisms and practical aspects of industrial hygiene air-monitoring equipment, characterizing exposure distributions, and developing sampling strategies. Lectures, laboratory exercises, demonstrations, problems, technical reports, and reading. Primarily for students in occupational health and safety.
Chemical Exposure Measurement and Control Laboratory
Laboratory course on air sampling/analysis and ventilation control of workplace contaminants. Emphasis on test-atmosphere generation methods, air-sampling equipment operation and calibration, physical and chemical analysis, air-flow measurement, ventilation principles and testing methods, data analysis and technical report preparation.
Control of Exposures to Airborne Contaminants
Discussion of how ventilation is used to control airborne contaminants in workplaces. Topics include basic properties of airflow and contaminants, types of ventilation systems, dilution ventilation, design of local exhaust systems, fan performance and selection, duct design, air cleaning equipment, ventilation testing, OSHA standards, indoor air quality, and others.
Physical Hazards
Lectures, discussions, demonstrations on the health effects, measurements methods, regulations, and control technologies related to physical health hazards encountered in occupational settings, including temperature extremes, noise, vibration, and lasers and other forms of non-ionizing radiation (rf, microwave, IR, visible, and UV).
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