BETH 751
Health and Human Rights
This course will examine health and health care in the context of human rights.
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EH 236
Epidemiology of Environmental & Occupational Health Regulations
Provides students with the opportunity to review the epidemiologic basis for associating selected occupational and environmental exposures with health outcomes and to explore how this science might be used to develop and implement regulation of these exposures.
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
EH 525
Environmental Justice: Concepts and Practice
The purpose of this course is to introduce the topic of environmental justice as it relates to public health. It has been developed to be accessible to a broad audience including those with backgrounds in environmental health, epidemiology, basic sciences, social and behavioral sciences, and health policy.
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
GENED 1063
World Health: Challenges and Opportunities
This course will challenge your assumptions about the world’s populations as you discover surprising similarities and unexpected differences between and within countries.
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
ID 215
Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
This course examines application of epidemiologic methods to environmental and occupational health problems. Objectives are to review methods used in evaluating the health effects of physical and chemical agents in the environment, to review available evidence on the health effects of such exposures, and to consider policy questions raised by the scientific evidence.
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
ID 220
An Introduction to Planetary Health
This course is geared toward graduate students from all schools, but open to passionate undergraduates interested in exploring the implications of global environmental change on nutrition, infectious disease, mental health, and other domains of wellbeing. Throughout the course of the semester, students will engage in diverse materials from many types of examples of planetary health research, from nutrition and mental health, to infectious and non-communicable diseases.
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
ID 271
Advanced Regression for Environmental Epidemiology
This course covers applied advanced regression analysis. Its focus is on relaxing classical assumptions in regression analysis to better match what epidemiological data really looks like. Specifically, the course will cover nonlinear exposure-response relationships and repeated measure designs, including non-parametric and semi-parametric smoothing techniques, generalized additive models, quantile regression, and time series models.
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
GHHP 70
Global Response to Disasters and Refugee Crises
This course examines the past, present, and future of the international humanitarian response system.
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
ID 271
Advanced Regression for Environmental Epidemiology
This course covers applied advanced regression analysis. Its focus is on relaxing classical assumptions in regression analysis to better match what epidemiological data really looks like. Specifically, the course will cover nonlinear exposure-response relationships and repeated measure designs, including non-parametric and semi-parametric smoothing techniques, generalized additive models, quantile regression, and time series models.
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HO 705
Climate Change, Justice, and Beneficence
In this seminar we discuss justice and beneficence near and far, as formulated in views of how benefits and burdens should be distributed within the borders of a just society, and as further brought to bear concerning sharing and stewardship to benefit and prevent harm to peoples and generations distant from us in space and time.
Thu, Jan 29, 2026
EH 232
Introduction to Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Overview of Occupational and Environmental Medicine including: the diagnosis and management of illnesses following exposure to specific workplace substances, environmental and community hazards, such as asbestos, lead, organic solvents, and vibration; methods of diagnosis of early organ system effects of chemicals and techniques for assessing impairment and disability; as well as, medicolegal aspects of occupational health.
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
EH 252
High Performance Buildings for Health, Comfort and Sustainability
This class will cover basic principles of high performance building design, construction and operation, and impacts on indoor environmental quality, including chemical exposures, light, noise and thermal comfort. One class each week will be dedicated to lectures on these topics, with case studies and experiences from building practitioners that have successfully incorporated sustainability features in historic and contemporary structures.
Mon, Jan 26, 2026