Education & Training

Masters of Public Health - Specializing in Risk Science

  • The MPH graduate specializing in RISK science at the University of Michigan will assess environmental and occupational risks using the best available risk assessment tools; communicate the results of risk assessments to the appropriate target audience(s) and identify alternative actions that can help reduce or prevent environmental and occupational risks, thereby improving human health.

Environmental Health Sciences Degree

Courses

EHS 501 - Occupational Environmental Disease
EHS 506 - Principles of Toxicology
EHS 507 - Principles of Exposure Assessment
EHS 508 - Principles of Risk Assessment
EHS 572 / NRE 514 - Environmental Impact Assessment
EHS 574 - Environmental Chemistry
EHS 616 - Introduction to Toxicological Pathology
EHS 653 - Environmental Sampling and Analysis Laboratory
EPID 705 - Epidemiology in Public Health Policy
EPID 720 - Planning, Delivery, and Evaluation of Community-Based Interventions for Behavioral and Social Change
EPID 724 - Risk Assessment in Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
EPID 730 - Occupational and Environmental Exposure Assessment
HBEHED 668 - Health Communications for Public Health
HBEHED 690 - Environmental Health Education

 

Graduate Certificate in Risk Science and Human Health (New Fall 2012)

The Graduate Certificate in Risk Science and Human Health is designed to equip students from various backgrounds with a basic understanding of how to begin addressing increasingly complex human health risks in a rapidly changing technological, social, economic, and political landscape.