Environmental and Occupational Concentration
The objective of this concentration is to train practitioners for practice, research, and leadership positions in environmental health. Environmental health sciences is a complex, multifaceted field dedicated both to protecting communities and workers from environmental factors that adversely impact human health and to maintaining the ecological balances essential to long-term human health and environmental quality. Environmental health is one of the largest areas of public health, comprising a large percentage of public health practitioners.
A number of our faculty have interests in Environmental and Occupational Health.
Environmental and Occupational Health Requirements
In addition to the core requirements, students must complete the following courses:
All of:
- HSCI 815-3 Concepts of Population and Public Health Practice
- HSCI 847-3 Risk Assessment and Communication for Human Health
- HSCI 849-3 Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
and one of
- HSCI 824-3 Comparative Health Care Systems
- HSCI 827-3 Analysis of the Canadian Health Care System
and one of
- HSCI 830-3 Health Promotion
- HSCI 835-3 Social and Behavioral contexts of Health and Disease
and one of
- HSCI 846-3 Environmental Health Exposure Assessment and Analysis
- HSCI 848-3 Toxicology, Susceptibility and Environmental Health
and two of
- HSCI 804-3 Biostatistics for Population Health Practice II
- HSCI 850-3 Air Pollution and Human Health
- HSCI 855-3 Disease Prevention and Control
With the approval of the senior supervisor and consent of the Graduate Program Director, a student may substitute one from this list with electives drawn from the list of HSCI graduate courses, or from other departments/faculties.
