EOHMINU - Environmental and Occupational Health
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Program Type
Undergraduate Minor
College
Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Career
Undergraduate
Program Description
The Minor in Environmental and Occupational Health serves as an extension of our mission to promote health and social justice locally and globally. This minor will provide expertise in environmental and occupational health, so you can help communities stay healthy as they face the challenges of climate change, scarce water resources, industrialization, and contamination.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify potential environmental and occupational risks form environmental hazards and determine ways to mitigate the risk
- Describe pathogen/microbe specific traits that are associated with outbreaks and how these traits influence the spread of disease.
- Classify the major types of chemical, physical, and biological exposure agents capable of inducing disease in the public.
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative assessment of environmental and occupational health risks, using computer modeling methods.
- Develop outreach tools for environmentally acquired illness awareness and assessment.
- Describe pathogen/microbe specific traits that are associated with outbreaks and how these traits influence the spread of disease.
- Classify the major types of chemical, physical, and biological exposure agents capable of inducing disease in the public.
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative assessment of environmental and occupational health risks, using computer modeling methods.
- Develop outreach tools for environmentally acquired illness awareness and assessment.