ENOH 0560
Public Health Biology and Physiology (3)
This
course provides insights into the human biology and physiology of major organ
systems and mechanisms of diseases affecting large, often impoverished,
populations globally. The course recognizes how social, environmental, and
economic determinants are intertwined with the biology and physiology of
humans. Student reflections and peer discussions are a key component of this
course.
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ENOH 0564
Industrial Site Visits (3)
This
course provides a review of major industrial processes and health hazards
associated with each. Includes site visits to metropolitan NY/NJ industrial
facilities during working hours. Trainees will learn key concepts of industrial
hygiene and safety, including hazard recognition and control methods.
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ENOH 0567
Seminar on Occupational Safety and Health (1)
This course, though seminars and team-based discussions,
adopts an interdisciplinary approach to explore occupational health and safety.
Prerequisite: Occupational and environmental medicine resident standing.
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ENOH 0594
Environmental and Occupational Toxicology (3)
This
course explores the principles of toxicology, namely how chemicals interact
with humans and the environment and includes consideration of pharmacodynamics
and pharmacokinetics.
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ENOH 0596
Environmental Justice: Historical Perspectives and Justice Initiatives (3)
This
course explores the history and practice of environmental justice (EJ) in the
US and globally. Including presentations by community activists and
participation in EJ debates, perspectives from overburdened communities,
governmental initiatives, and the role of industry are explored with a focus on
examining the complex issues facing EJ communities.
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ENOH 0620
Climate Change: Planetary and Human Health (3)
This
course explores the various impacts of climate change on human health. It
examines the principles underlying how different extreme weather patterns are
linked to health risks. It adopts a solutions-oriented approach to climate
change mitigation and adaptation.
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ENOH 0621
Sustainability: Planetary and Human Health (3)
The
course explores the pursuit of sustainability as essential to planetary health,
the health and wellbeing of people, and inclusive economic prosperity, with
climate change a threat multiplier exacerbating disparities in society. It
examines sustainability across private, pubic, and plural sectors and the
leadership needed to effect a just transition.
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ENOH 0622
Sustainability for Health and Healthcare (3)
The climate emergency is a health emergency with the health
sector contributing around 5% of global net emissions. Threats to public health
and health equity are rising, exacerbated by a growing demand for healthcare
and a lack of universal health coverage. Climate-resilient health systems and
infrastructure, new models of care and workforce development, as well as
leadership and governance are needed.
Recommended corequisite: ENOH 0621
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ENOH 0623
Communicating Sustainability (3)
Effective
communication of sustainability drives behavioral, organizational, and systemic
changes needed to advance sustainable development activating individuals,
communities, organizations, and society to create a world that leaves no one
behind.
Recommended corequisite: ENOH 0621
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ENOH 0625
Sustainability Leadership (3)
The pursuit of sustainability relies on leadership at all
levels, harnessing individual and collective agency with strategic
intent. Creating a world that leaves no one behind demands transformational
change to advance sustainable development in line with social and environmental
justice.
Recommended corequisite: ENOH 0621
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ENOH 0644
Indoor Air Quality (3)
This
course addresses indoor air quality (IAQ) concerns and problems, as well as
indoor environmental quality factors (IEQ or light, noise, and thermal comfort
or relative humidity, and temperature). It examines the major sources of
emissions affecting IAQ/IEQ, commonly identified pollutants, factors
determining their concentrations in indoor environments, and the human health
risks associated with IAQ/IEQ problems. A variety of risk management
options and recommendations for mitigation, including regulatory and technical
approaches, are also explored.
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ENOH 0653
Biomarkers (3)
This
course covers both theoretical concepts and practical issues of biomarkers,
with an emphasis on the importance of incorporating biomarkers into
environmental and occupational toxicology and epidemiology research.
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ENOH 0654
Occupational Safety and Workplace Risk Mitigation (3)
This
course considers those concepts necessary to develop and maintain an effective
safety management system, a vital component for reducing workplace injuries and
illnesses. Exploring workplace injuries, environmental and labor standards
designed to reduce them, and research related to this field, students go on to
prepare an occupation injury mitigation paper based on an industry of their
choice.
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ENOH 0656
Environmental Risk Assessment (3)
This course introduces the concepts, language, and methods
of risk assessment, and explains the role of risk assessment in individual and
social decision making. Topics central to human health-based
environmental and occupational risk assessment are explored. Concepts and
applications are illustrated by case studies.
Prerequisites: PHCO 0503 (Minimum Grade of B).
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ENOH 0657
Managing Hazardous Energy (3)
This course orients students to the dangers associated with
hazardous energy and strategies to effectively manage risks they pose. In
addition to earning three elective credits, students are also awarded four OSHA
(Occupational Safety and Health Administration) course completion certificates
upon completing the course.
Prerequisite: PHCO 0503 and with permission from instructor.
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ENOH 0659
Occupational Health Practices (2)
This course examines key aspects of occupational health
practice, including record keeping, confidentiality, surveillance, fitness,
spirometry, audiometry, and neurobehavioral testing.
Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
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ENOH 0670
Occupational Health Practice and Management (1)
This course comprises practical workshops that explore
health services management and administration in occupational medicine.
Prerequisite: Occupational and environmental medicine resident standing. Three (3) credits are required, taken over three semesters (fall, spring, and summer).
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ENOH 0693
Principles of Occupational and Environmental Health (3)
This
course focuses on the principles of health hazards in the workplace. It also
examines some of the injuries and illnesses related to workplace exposures.
Corequisite: PHCO 0503.
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ENOH 0695
Environmental Exposure Measurement and Assessment (3)
This course explores the concepts and methods relevant to
characterizing, quantifying, and mitigating acute and chronic exposures to
harmful chemical, physical and biological agents that cause a wide range of
health effects. It examines how these exposures occur (via inhalation,
ingestion and dermal contact) and their health effects through multiple
environmental, biological and behavioral interactions and the impact of
geographic, demographic and socioeconomic factors that can result in exposure
and health disparities for disadvantaged communities. Students develop the
skills needed to design exposure studies applicable to epidemiological
investigations and health risk assessments.
Prerequisite: General statistics.
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ENOH 0697
Public Health Preparedness: Agents of Mass Exposure, Injury, or Destruction (3)
The
course examine the unique characteristics of technological materials that have
the potential to cause widespread harm to individuals and public health,
including so-called 'weapons of mass destruction' and their mechanism and
capacity to disrupt society and health. Scenarios for exposure of large numbers
of people to harmful agents, the mechanism of injury and the effects to health,
the impact of damage or destruction to property and the environment, and
various means of protecting the public and public health response workers are
explored. Capabilities and methods to identify deleterious agents and
approaches to mitigation and application of countermeasures are described
alongside the importance of psychological and psychosocial aspects.
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ENOH 0699
Principles of Industrial Hygiene (3)
This
course provides a rigorous introduction to the field of industrial hygiene.
Students will learn and apply various approaches and methods to anticipate,
recognize, evaluate and control occupational hazards in a variety of industrial
and nonindustrial settings. The course develops skills for quantitative and
qualitative assessment of exposures and risk from chemical, physical, and
biological agents, including the basics of air sampling, assessment of physical
hazards, biosafety, industrial noise, and controls for workplace hazards.
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ENOH 0701
Public Health Research Ethics (3)
This course explores ethical issues related to public health
research with a focus on ethical theory, informed consent, the role and
function of Institutional Review Boards, selection of research subjects,
ethical aspects of study design, and privacy and confidentiality. Students
engage in moderated discussions, an informed consent exercise, and analysis of
cases.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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ENOH 0720
Climate Change: Planetary and Human Health (3)
This course explores in depth the various impacts of climate
change on human health. It examines the principles underlying how different
extreme weather patterns are linked to health risks. It adopts a
solutions-oriented approach to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Prerequisite: Doctoral student standing.
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ENOH 9560
Air Pollution Measurement (3)
Focuses
on the principals of air pollution and techniques of in
situ measurements of pollutants in the ambient air. Topics will include
the sources of selected air pollutants, major chemical transformation and
removal processes, characteristics of particulate matter (PM), measurement
techniques of concentrations, particle-size distributions, and
deposition. Regulations on air pollution and techniques on emission
reduction will be discussed. Influence of air pollution on the environments
locally and globally will also be discussed through case studies.
Prerequisite: One year of college chemistry or one graduate-level course in atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, geochemistry, environmental chemical science or air resource management.
Cross-listed with 26:375:560. This course is offered through Rutgers School of Graduate Studies-Newark.
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ENOH 9618
Environmental Planning and Management (3)
Overview of the institutional, economic, normative, and
technical factors underlying environmental planning and policy. Topics include
environmental decision-making, stakeholders, methods, and crosscutting
challenges. Case studies and in-class exercises put topics into local and
global context.
Cross-listed with 34:970:618. This course is offered through Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
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ENOH 9621
Principles of Air Pollution (3)
Fundamental factors of atmospheric contamination; effect of
pollution on man and environment; principles of measurement and survey; methods
of control; air cleaning; legal aspects.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with 11:375:421. This course is offered through Rutgers School of Environmental & Biological Sciences.
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ENOH 9642
Air Sampling and Analysis Techniques (3)
Theory and laboratory exercises in ambient and indoor air
sampling. Topics range from classical air sampling trains to the use of
state-of-art direct-reading instrumentation, and measurements of airborne
nanoparticles and airborne biological agents.
Prerequisite: ENOH 9621/11:375:421.
Cross-listed with 16:375:536. This course is offered through Rutgers School of Graduate Studies.
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ENOH 9643
Hazardous Waste Management (3)
Overview of hazardous waste management. Case histories;
physical, chemical, and biological properties; legislation and regulations;
sampling and analysis; treatment, disposal, and cleanup technologies.
Prerequisite: 16:375:525 Solid Waste Management or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with 16:375:530. This course is offered through Rutgers School of Graduate Studies.
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