Environmental Health Emphasis

Understand how environmental or occupational factors (physical, chemical, and biological) interact with the human body causing an adverse impact on human health or the ecological balances essential to long-term health.

An emphasis in environmental health will train students to address environmental issues while providing them with an understanding of how environmental or occupational factors (physical, chemical, and biological) interact with a human body causing an adverse impact on human health or the ecological balances essential to long-term human life.

• Understand how environmental or occupational factors impact human health
• Make recommendations as to when an environmental or occupational hazard needs to be remediated due to its impact on human health
• Graduates are ideal candidates for environmental health graduate programs, government health officials, and environmental health and safety specialists within any organization

 

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