Competencies
Environmental Health – DrPH
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Identify and define steps in risk
assessment and
 Describe various risk management
approaches
 Identify techniques for improving
risk assessment and risk
management strategies
Learning Opportunities
180.601
Environmental Health
180.609-10 Principles of Environmental Health I-II
180.611
The Global Environment and Public Health
182.640
Food-and Water-Borne Diseases
183.641
The Health Effects of Indoor and Outdoor Air
Pollution
187.610
Principles of Toxicology
188.680
Fundamentals of Occupational Health
188.681
Occupational Health
188.684
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
188.694
Advanced Topics in Occupational Health
Nursing
180.601
180.609-10
180.631
180.640
182.621
182.623
182.625
180.629
317.600
340.618
340.637
550.860
Environmental Health
Principles of Environmental Health I-II
Environmental And Occupational Health Policy
Seminar
Molecular Epidemiology and Biomarkers in
Public Health
Introduction to Ergonomics
Occupational Safety and Health Management
Principles of Industrial Hygiene
Environmental and Occupational Health Law
and Policy
Introduction to the Risk Sciences and Public
Policy
Occupational Epidemiology
Environmental Epidemiology
Research Ethics
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
DrPH Seminar
X
Non-Dissertation
Research
X
School
Preliminary Orals
X
Dept
Preliminary Orals
X
Written Comps
Public Dissertation
Presentation
Identify major environmental agents and
their sources and
 Discuss transport and fate of these
agents and identify their vectors
 Describe the toxicokinetics and
toxicodynamics of these agents
 Describe genetic, physiologic, and
psychosocial factors that influence
exposure risk or health outcome as
a result of exposure to an
environmental agent
Final Defense
Specific Competencies
Course
Work/Exam
1. Achieve broad competence in the scientific domain of public
health with emphasis on environmental health sciences
Dissertation
Evaluation Opportunities
1
Competencies
Environmental Health – DrPH
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Assess when scientific evidence is
ready for translation to practice and
policy making through evaluation and
synthesis; systematic application of the
environmental health paradigm; review
of current knowledge and methods;
identification of gaps and strengths; and
consideration of international, national,
or state laws
180.629
Understand and carry out the four steps
of risk assessment: incorporate
uncertainty appropriately, use science in
decision making, and derive and assess
options
317.600
DrPH Seminar
X
X
X
X
X
X
School
Preliminary Orals
X
Dept
Preliminary Orals
Non-Dissertation
Research
X
Public Dissertation
Presentation
Learning Opportunities
180.601
Environmental Health
180.609-10 Principles of Environmental Health I-II
188.681
Occupational Health
DrPH Seminar
Departmental and School Preliminary Orals
Dissertation
Final Defense and Public Presentation of Dissertation
Final Defense
Provide leadership through team
building, interaction with members of
other disciplines, and personal vision,
exhibited by public health oriented
action or improvement in current
implementations
Dissertation
Specific Competencies
Written Comps
2. Integrate a broad knowledge of public and environmental health
sciences using analytical skills in leadership, practice, policy analysis,
program management, epidemiology, and professional communication
to improve the health of the public
Course
Work/Exam
Evaluation Opportunities
Environmental and Occupational Health Law
and Policy
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Introduction to the Risk Sciences and Public
Policy
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
188.684
DrPH Seminar
Departmental and School Preliminary Orals
Dissertation
Final Defense and Public Presentation of Dissertation
DrPH Seminar
Departmental and School Preliminary Orals
Dissertation
Final Defense and Public Presentation of Dissertation
2
Competencies
Environmental Health – DrPH
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
Seminar
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
School
Preliminary Orals
X
Dept
Preliminary Orals
X
Written Comps
DrPH Seminar
180.631
Non-Dissertation
Research
Communicate Environmental Health
Sciences and Public Health concepts in
both written and oral presentations,
which make the case for research,
resources, or a new program or policy
Learning Opportunities
180.629
Environmental and Occupational Health Law
and Policy
182.623
Occupational Safety and Health Management
182.625
Principles of Industrial Hygiene
DrPH Seminar
Departmental and School Preliminary Orals
Dissertation
Final Defense and Public Presentation of Dissertation
Public Dissertation
Presentation
Demonstrate program management
skills through integration of knowledge
to evaluate, plan, or implement a risk
management program, using for
example, the
occupational/environmental health
paradigms
Final Defense
Specific Competencies
Course
Work/Exam
2. Integrate a broad knowledge of public and environmental health
sciences using analytical skills in leadership, practice, policy analysis,
program management, epidemiology, and professional communication
to improve the health of the public, continued
Dissertation
Evaluation Opportunities
DrPH Seminar
Departmental and School Preliminary Orals
Dissertation
Final Defense and Public Presentation of Dissertation
3
Competencies
Environmental Health – DrPH
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
School
Preliminary Orals
Dept
Preliminary Orals
X
X
X
X
X
DrPH Seminar
X
Non-Dissertation
Research
X
Public Dissertation
Presentation
Learning Opportunities
140.621-4
Statistical Methods in Public Health 1-IV
180.640
Molecular Epidemiology and Biomarkers in
Public Health
182.640
Food- and Water-Borne Diseases
183.641
The Health Effects of Indoor and Outdoor Air
Pollution
340.602
Intermediate Epidemiology
340.608
Observational Epidemiology
340.618
Occupational Epidemiology
340.637
Environmental Epidemiology
550.860
Research Ethics
DrPH Seminar
Departmental and School Preliminary Orals
Dissertation
Final Defense and Public Presentation of Dissertation
Final Defense
Employ the principles of epidemiology
(study types, exposure and outcome
measurement), molecular biology
(genetics, biomarkers), toxicology
(nature and sources of hazards), and
social and behavioral sciences
(susceptibility and disparities) to assess
and design studies of environmental
health with consideration of ethical
handling of study subjects
Dissertation
Specific Competencies
Written Comps
2. Integrate a broad knowledge of public and environmental health
sciences using analytical skills in leadership, practice, policy analysis,
program management, epidemiology, and professional communication
to improve the health of the public, continued
Course
Work/Exam
Evaluation Opportunities
X
X
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