The School of Public Health-Bloomington is offering a new
Bachelor of Science in Public Health degree in Environmental Science. It is
already offered as a Master and a Ph.D, but now will be available to
undergraduate students as well.
Environmental health is concerned with all aspects of the
environment that affect human health, and in the program, students will
identify, control, and prevent any environmental factors that can impact human health.
They will be taught principles of environmental health ranging from food safety
to exposure assessment. The professor and chair of the Department of
Environmental Health stated, “An increased awareness of physical, biological
and chemical hazards in our world coupled with greater knowledge of their
potential effects on human health has led to great demand for trained
environment health professionals. By offering an undergraduate degree in
environmental health, we are directly addressing the critical need for
educating tomorrow’s workforce in an academically robust way.”
