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Environmental Health impacts everyone, everywhere. Our students graduate with a strong knowledge of environmental regulatory compliance in order to help mitigate the impact of human activity on the environment. They learn how regulations are applied to support the health of people and the environment by reducing exposures to hazardous materials and contaminants in community settings, including in air, water, food, solid waste and much more. They are also knowledgeable about hazardous materials management and compliance in industrial facilities as well as hazardous materials/waste spills handling and response. Our students graduate with OSHA Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard (HAZWOPER) Certification. There is flexibility in the degree program that allows you to tailor your degree to your interests through offering three graduate electives of your choosing. Popular choices are GIS and cancer epidemiology classes.
Our faculty represent a wide array of disciplines with backgrounds in public health, industrial engineering, human factors, toxicology, environmental chemistry, and epidemiology. Notable faculty studies and projects include assessment tools for evaluating office ergonomics; investigations into effective procedure writing and displays; occupational safety interventions; environmental carcinogenesis; asthma education and management; developing innovative ways to remove toxins and contaminants from surfaces and water; maternal air pollution exposure and outcomes; gene-environment interactions; environmental justice in underserved communities and community resilience.
