Environmental and Occupational Health Certificate Program
NOTE: This certificate program may be complete entirely online!
OVERVIEW
The certificate program educates and trains students to identify major environmental health issues facing public health professionals today. Courses explore the sources of environmental agents, their distribution in community and work environments, transfer routes to humans and possible health effects; the basic biological mechanisms underlying the association between prior exposure and subsequent development of adverse health effects; and control strategies and interventions.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
- Define the major environmental agents that cause adverse effects on human health, and their sources
- Identify the carriers or vectors that promote the transfer of these agents from the environment to the human
- Describe various risk management approaches both in the workplace and in the environment
- Develop and discuss strategies that effectively mitigate and prevent adverse health effects caused by environmental and/or occupational agents and conditions
- Illustrate how concepts such as exposure assessment, the hierarchy of controls, biological monitoring, medical screening and surveillance are used to prevent occupational injuries and illnesses
- Identify and describe important current and emerging environmental and/or occupational problems that pose a risk to public health.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Sponsoring Department
Environmental Health and Engineering
ADMISSIONS
Complete information about applying to the certificate program can be found on the Bloomberg School of Public Health certificate program webpage.