Environmental and Occupational Health, PhD

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The objective of the Environmental Health Sciences PhD training program is to provide a broad theoretical and practical education for individuals who desire positions in academic, industrial or government positions as teachers, researchers, or regulators in the multifaceted discipline of Environmental Health Science. The program emphasizes study of the environmental impacts on human disease risk and disease susceptibility. The Environmental Health Sciences program is designed as an integrated modern curriculum combining training in toxicology, environmental exposure pathways, environmental epidemiology, and risk assessment with the new and continually developing fields of cellular and molecular pathobiology of environmental disease. The program provides an understanding of how relevant environmental exposures, laboratory-based model systems, and gene-environment responses can be interpreted and applied in the study of disease etiology in exposed and potentially exposed human populations