New Major in Environmental Public Health

The School of Earth Sciences and Ohio State’s College of Public Health have created the new Environmental Public Health Major. The new Bachelor of Science (BSPH) degree with interdisciplinary specialization in environmental public health will focus predominately, but not exclusively, on domestic environmental public health issues.

Graduates of the BSPH degree program with interdisciplinary specialization in Environmental Public Health will be prepared to:

*apply principles of mathematics, chemistry, biology to applied science of environmental public health

*summarize major sources, hazardous agents, conditions, and other exposure factors that contribute to environmentally-related human diseases

*describe how the quality of environmental media (air, water, soil, food) is adversely affected by contamination from chemical, biological and physical agents

*apply theory to environmental public health issues identified within indoor/outdoor and  occupational/non-occupational settings

*analyze and interpret fundamental statistical, epidemiological, and environmental monitoring/surveillance, and risk assessment data

*summarize management and technical measures and approaches that control human exposure to environmental contaminants

*identify regulations, policies, standards and guidelines applicable to the quality of air, water, soil and food and the prevention of environmentally-related human exposures and diseases

* write and communicate applicable scientific and technical summaries

For further information on the new major, contact; Professor Motomu Ibaraki, Ibaraki.1@osu.edu