OUR PROGRAM
The Exposure Sciences Program offers several emphasis areas in the MS degree, which is designed to train health and safety professionals to recognize and prevent a variety of disease and injuries in workplaces and communities. Our faculty members carry out research on wide range of health problems, identifying and contributing to the reduction or elimination of job-related health hazards and helping reduce exposures in community settings. Research topics include respiratory disease among exposed populations (including construction, auto, textile, and agricultural workers; workers exposed to particles; and building occupants); reproductive and chronic disease studies of populations exposed to petrochemicals, heavy metals, and persistent organic compounds; biological and chemical hazards assessment; epidemiology of acute injury and cumulative trauma disorders; occupational and environmental cancers such as lung, skin, and bladder cancer; biomonitoring and medical surveillance; occupational and environmental health research and training in developing countries; occupational health policy and services research; and population genetics.
Degree
Master of Science (MS) in Occupational & Environmental Exposure Sciences
Our MS degree encompasses core courses, a Learning Emphasis area that you choose, requirement and elective courses for that particular area, and your choice of completing a thesis or portfolio.
Learning Emphasis Areas:
Students choose one of the learning emphasis areas along with the associated electives to complete this curriculum. The four learning emphasis areas defined here are as follows: Occupational Hygiene, Ergonomics and Human Factors, Health & Safety Management, and Exposure biomarkers.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Environmental & Occupational Hygiene
See Curriculum for further details.