Competencies - Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.) - Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Each department identifies competencies for each degree offered. These competencies reflect the full range of knowledge, skills, and other attributes that a student will acquire as a result of completing the requirements for a particular degree.
Upon graduation, a student completing the Dr.P.H. curriculum in environmental and occupational health will be able to:
- describe the direct and indirect human and ecological health and safety effects of various environmental and occupational exposure agents;
- determine what risks are present in a particular community and develop a basic risk assessment plan for the identification, characterization, management, and remediation of that risk;
- diagnose and apply appropriate approaches for assessing, preventing, and controlling environmental hazards that pose risks to health and safety;
- develop an intervention/prevention plan to ameliorate a particular environmental or occupational risk in a community workplace, respectively;
- obtain grant funding from private and/or governmental agencies to initiate an ENOH research program;
- provide an informed expert opinion to government and/or community leaders regarding the extent or level of risk associated with a particular environmental or occupational hazard or condition;
- be able to teach a course in environmental and occupational health; and
- understand environmental and occupational policies and regulations at both the federal and state levels.
