Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) Competencies - Environmental Health Sciences
Each concentration 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 M.P.H. curriculum in environmental health sciences will be able to:
- describe the major
environmental health problems facing the general public as well as among
specific communities or susceptible, vulnerable subpopulations;
- explain the basic mechanism of toxicology and dose-response as
applied to environmental toxicants;
- describe the federal and state regulatory programs relating to
environmental (community) protection;
- develop a testable model of environmental exposures (one or more
agents) and adverse health outcomes (causing injury, disability, or other measure
of morbidity or mortality); and
- specify current environmental risk assessment approaches and
methods for a particular hazard or risk in a community.
Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) Programs 
