BETH 751
Health and Human Rights
This course will examine health and health care in the context of human rights.
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Public Health & Medicine
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 27, 2025
EH 516
Environmental Genetics
interaction between genes and environmental and/or occupational exposures plays a major role in disease development. This course will focus on the underlying science of gene-exposure interactions and will use examples of such interactions and their health consequences.
Thu, Jan 2, 2025
EH 297
Atmospheric Environment
This course offers a comprehensive overview of gaseous and particulate air pollutants. It will emphasize pollutant sources, physical and chemical properties, sampling and analysis, chemical transformation, atmospheric transport, fate, and potential for adverse health and environmental impacts.
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
EH 297
Atmospheric Environment
This course offers a comprehensive overview of gaseous and particulate air pollutants. It will emphasize pollutant sources, physical and chemical properties, sampling and analysis, chemical transformation, atmospheric transport, fate, and potential for adverse health and environmental impacts.
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
GHP 543
Humanitarian Negotiation on the Frontlines
The purpose of this course is to build the capacity of graduate students to navigate complex political crises in uncertain times, to develop a strategic vision on how to respond to humanitarian emergencies, and to plan a negotiation process in adversarial conditions. The 2024 edition of the Frontline Negotiation Lab will explore the challenges and dilemmas of the response to a climate-induced crisis and the work of negotiators and facilitators confronted with the growing distrust and tensions among key stakeholders and the affected population.
Mon, Jan 6, 2025
EH 257
Water Pollution
This seminar course is designed to teach an understanding of the basic principles of water pollution and water pollution issues on local, regional and global scales.
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
ID 290
Emergency Response, Disasters, and Public Health
The purpose of this course is to provide cognitive and heuristic tools to public health practitioners to be well prepared to plan for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the impact of health disasters precipitated by a variety of threats.
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
EH 257
Water Pollution
This seminar course is designed to teach an understanding of the basic principles of water pollution and water pollution issues on local, regional and global scales.
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
EH 291
Community Practice in Environmental Health
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the complexities of and best practices for community engaged/action research and collaboration. Students will integrate skills and knowledge from their environmental health training to address community interests/needs.
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
EH 520
Research Design in Environmental Health
The seminars consist of student presentation of plans for collection and analysis of data, with discussion by students and faculty. Preparatory work is done under tutorial arrangements with members of the faculty. The emphasis is on conceptual issues necessary for the development of a feasible and informative study.
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
EH 236
Epidemiology of Environmental & Occupational Health Policy & 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 26, 2026