PRE-REQ: DrPH IES Track Only. This course provides an overview of implementation science theories, models and framework (TMF) and their application in the public health translation of evidence-based interventions. It covers major TMFs, criteria for selection of TFMs and how to apply implementation science TMF into the adoption, implementation, sustainment or scaling of public health interventions. This course also provides students with an overview of how to identify and collect data or measures related to implementation science TMFs and their constructs. The course will develop skills that enable practitioners to select an implementation science TMF and apply them to a public health project. Skills covered in this course include formative research using an implementation science TMF, applying TMF constructs into a public health program or evaluation, data collection and/or evaluation applying implementation science TMFs, and data presentation of theory-based evaluation or research.

PRE-REQ: DrPH PHPR Track Only. This course is devoted to teaching students about how to work effectively in the realms of public health preparedness and public health practice, primarily through an epidemiologic lens and via deep dives into specific topics relevant to public health preparedness. Through a curated series of guest lecturers and activities, we cover topics ranging from pandemic readiness and community outbreak surveillance to risk communications and vaccine promotion. We'll also pepper in topics that you might not yet know much about - like radiologic and nuclear preparedness - to give students exposure to less well-known, but still important, areas of preparedness. Students interested in public health preparedness, infectious diseases, public health practice, and biodefense are encouraged to take this course.

EH 500 is a survey course designed to introduce public health students to basic concepts of environmental sciences, to the methods used to study the interface of health and the environment, to the health impacts of various environmental processes and exposures, and to the public health approach to controlling or eliminating environmental health risks. To address these concepts, basic environmental health principles (exposure assessment, environmental toxicology, environmental epidemiology, risk assessment), as well as specific environmental health issues including water and air pollution, hazardous chemical/waste exposures, climate change, and environmental drivers of disease ecology, will be covered.

Pre-Requisites: PRS 500D as prerequisite or special permission required to enroll. EH 500 is a survey course designed to introduce public health students to basic concepts of environmental sciences, to the methods used to study the interface of health and the environment, to the health impacts of various environmental processes and exposures, and to the public health approach to controlling or eliminating environmental health risks.

EH department students only. Required foundation course for students in all master's programs administered by Department of Environmental Health. Introduces students to major topics in environmental health, including mechanisms of toxicity, pesticides and other chemicals, children's health, WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene), infectious disease, air pollution, climate change, and planetary health. Describes tools used to understand these EH topics, such as exposure science, epidemiology, toxicology, biomarkers/omics, risk assessment, implementation science, and policy.

In this course, students will be introduced to the concepts of exposure science. Students will learn how contaminants are transported from sources to receptors and how human receptors are affected by such contact. Varying exposure science approaches, across a range of environmental media, including air, water, soil, and internal biological matrices, will be considered. Methods of assessment including direct monitoring of environmental media, modeling, as well as biomarkers of exposure will be presented and discussed in detail. Students will examine the literature of exposure science through readings, in-class article discussions, and by conducting a collaborative exposure assessment.

The link between the air we breathe and human health affects millions globally, placing urban air quality as a leading contributor to the global burden of disease. This course examines ways to characterize urban air pollution as well as its public health implications based on recent clinical, epidemiological, and toxicological research. The course will be highly interactive and will provide instruction on conducting basic, applied air quality research in academic, governmental, and grassroots settings.

Prerequisites: college-level biology and chemistry or instructor's permission. The goal of this course is to introduce the student to the basic principles of toxicology. Humans are exposed to a variety of dangerous substances through occupational and environmental exposures. In order to interpret the public health implications of these exposures one must have a good understanding of how these compounds get into the body, how they are processed in the body, and how they damage particular organ systems. To accomplish this, students will gain practical knowledge of the workings of specific organ systems and will be able to identify particular environmental chemicals and their mechanisms of action that underlie organ toxicity. This information will be conveyed through lecture material and reinforced by relevant readings, in-class discussion, and additional assignments that are focused on ensuring that the toxicological topics are further evaluated and considered in the context of current environmental and human health concerns and do not simply exist as standalone facts.

Prerequisite: EH 520 or instructor?s permission. This course is focused on understanding and evaluating the targets, molecular mechanisms, and physiological effects of specific environmental chemicals on the nervous system. This knowledge will be supplemented through outside readings and class discussions that serve to support the students? understanding of the material and provide them with a real-world perspective of neurotoxicology.

Surveys the general principles and practices of environmental health risk assessment for toxic exposures in the environment and interactions with other factors contributing to human health risks. A variety of case studies will be used to demonstrate the basic methods and results of risk assessment, including estimation/evaluation of potential risk based on empirical evidence (e.g., laboratory animal studies, epidemiological studies), hazard and dose-response assessment for regulatory decisions, and uncertainty analysis and risk communication. Students will be introduced to and use key tools used in quantitative risk assessment.