UM SPH Academic Courses

EHS591 Equity Issues in Environmental Health

Winter term(s)

1 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Nriagu, Jerome

Prerequisites: Grad Status

Description: The course will examine equity issues in environmental health research and practice. Emphasis will be on the sources of inequity (specific environmental hazards), and documentation of environmental injustice using different spatial scales and time frames. It will provide a commentary on the desirability for affected communities to have meaningful input into the design and implementation of environmental health assessment, as well as in the use and communication of the results.

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