Environmental Health Sciences
Doctor of Philosophy
The public health doctoral program with a concentration in EHS
is directed toward producing graduates who will contribute new
knowledge in understanding the impact of environmental stressors
- physical, chemical, and biological - on human health and comfort.
Students are skilled in research, assessment, and evaluation of
the impact of environmental stressors; they identify potentially
adverse environmental agents, assess their exposures, determine
their impact on health, and estimate the consequent risk. Students
can develop expertise and conduct independent research in a variety
of environmental health-related areas including epidemiology,
toxicology, occupational health, respiratory physiology, thermal
physiology, exposure assessment, psychophysics, air quality, and
risk assessment. Programs of study are planned on an individual
basis to provide students with the specialized knowledge required
for their selected research area as well as to provide breadth
in related areas of epidemiology and public health. Courses are
chosen from those available in the department and elsewhere in
the University. Students entering the doctoral program typically
have a strong background in undergraduate science and frequently
have a master's degree in public health.
Research Areas
Research projects in this Division cover a broad range of environmental
health research in areas of epidemiology, toxicology, occupational
health, respiratory physiology, thermal physiology, exposure assessment,
psychophysics, air quality, and risk assessment.
Current Divisional Research Projects:
- Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors in the Development and
Severity of Asthma.
- Respiratory Effects of Various Air Pollutants in Infants and
Mothers.
- Organochlorine Compounds, Genetic Polymorphisms and the Risk
of Breast Cancer.
- Environmental Exposure and Risk of Non Hodgkins Lymphoma, Hodgkins
Disease and Multiple Myeloma.
- The Toxicology of Various Metals and Particulates in both Humans
and Marine Animals.
- The Role of DNA Repair in Chemical Induced Carcinogenesis.
- Environmental Determinants of Physical Activity and Metabolic
Reserve in Aging.
- Multidisciplinary Epidemiological, Clinical and Laboratory Studies
on the Pathogenesis of Isocyanate Asthma.
Funding Opportunities
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