MPH 527 - Environmental and Occupational Health

(3 credits)

This course will highlight current environmental and occupational risk factors related to human health with an emphasis on assessment, intervention and prevention. Topics will include exposure to air pollution, pesticides, toxic metals, radiation, occupational stressors and their threat to human health. Laudato Si’, Care for Our Common Home, will provide a basis of understanding how environmental risk factors impact the marginalized in society. Summer.