UM SPH Academic Courses

EHS508 Principles of Risk Assessment

Winter term(s)

2 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Jolliet, Olivier

Prerequisites: EHS 507, Epidemiology (concurrent enrollment acceptable) or Perm. Instr.

Description: 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.

Syllabus for EHS508 (PDF, 55974 bytes, last modified on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 )

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