MPH 504

MPH 504 Environmental Public Health examines people’s relationships with their environment, the risks of their choices relative to the environment, and the resulting associations that affect the health and physical well-being of individuals, communities, and vulnerable populations. Through this course, students learn the foundational and technical concepts in environmental public health, from the global to the local scale. Primarily, students learn the environmental factors impacting health outcomes, the control measures currently used for preventing or mitigating the health effects from negative impacts, and where to access information to make a difference in health at the individual, community, or higher levels. Topics in this course are organized into five themes: methods and paradigms, environmental health on the global scale, environmental health on the regional scale, environmental health on the local scale, and the practice of environmental public health.