This course provides a broad overview of some of the most important and current challenges to human health from environmental and occupational risk factors while teaching the basic knowledge and multi-disciplinary skills used to assess, control, and prevent them. We will address specific threats, such as outdoor and indoor air pollution, toxic metals, pesticides, radiation and occupational stressors; analyze impacts on specific diseases and injuries, such as cardiovascular disease, asthma, cancer, musculoskeletal injuries and impaired child development;; and introduce emerging threats, such as the hormone-mimicing potential of plastic chemicals and the impact of global climate change on heat-related mortality and shifting patterns of infectious disease. Emphasis will also be given to understanding the worsening environmental health impacts of industrialization on developing countries, the effects of globalization, such as the growing movement of hazardous industries, products, and wastes across borders. and the rise of the environmental justice movement. The course fulfills the MPH core competency in environmental health and is also open to students in LSA and other UM graduate schools. A basic understanding (high school level) of human biology and chemistry is recommended.
EHS688
Topics in Environmental Health Sciences
Fall, Winter
term(s)
1 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Hu, Howard
Seminars in contemporary environmental health topics and issues. Presentations by noted authorities from industry, labor organizations, governments, and academia.
EPID813
Advanced seminar on public health and aging
Fall, Winter
term(s)
1 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Hu, Howard
Prerequisites: Doctoral standing at UM with training in research methods and statistics in relevant disciplines. Epid 677 is recommended.
This course will be a seminar for doctoral students at the University of Michigan who are interested in health and aging. Fellows/residents from geriatric medicine may also benefit from this course. The course will be most appropriate for students with a background in health, medicine, nursing, social work, psychology, sociology, behavioral sciences or a basic public health science. The course will address substantive areas in aging and health in the first term and methodological issues in geriatric research in the second term. It is also a training seminar for the T32 program in public health and aging.
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