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EHS 507 Environmental Epidemiology

Postgraduate course

Project description

This course is designed to focus on application of epidemiology principles and methods to study environmental exposures and adverse health outcomes. The major focus of environmental exposures includes both physical and chemical exposures, i.e., environmental chemicals and pesticides, air pollution, radiation, etc. Emphasis is placed on designing population-based studies to investigate environmental issues and human health, critically reviewing literature and interpreting environmental epidemiologic research data, identifying challenges involved in studying environmental exposures and human health, and analyzing data of environmental exposures and human health. Gene-environment interactions are an essential component when studying environmental hazards in relation to human health, which are also addressed and discussed in the class.