Environmental Public Health

As a student in Environmental Public Health, you will:

• Choose to earn your MS, MS Applied or PhD degree.
• Take common core courses introducing foundational concepts and skills, including: risk assessment, management and communication; assessment and management of exposures to environmental hazards; core principles of toxicology; and how to use a One Health approach to address complex challenges.
• Learn about policies and practices that prevent or control environmental hazards in a variety of settings and choose additional courses on topics that align with your interests, such as disaster preparedness, the built environment, climate change or hazardous waste.
• Complete a culminating experience (thesis or dissertation) showcasing your ability to integrate the skills you have learned to address an environmental or occupational health problem.

Our faculty and research

As our climate continues to change and our communities at the wildland interface grow, we can expect that wildfires and the smoke that they produce will become an increasingly important public health hazard in the Pacific Northwest.

Dr. Tania Busch Isaksen,
DEOHS Teaching Professor and Co-founder, the Collaborative on Extreme Event Resilience.
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Career pathways

Our Environmental Public Health graduates find careers in a range of private, public, nonprofit and academic positions. Recent DEOHS graduates work as:

• Air Quality Specialist at Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
• Quantitative Health Risk Analysis Consultant at EpiX Analytics.
• Microbiologist with the US Food and Drug Administration.