The core curriculum provides the unifying themes on the basic driving forces behind environmental health problems, human activities that lead to pressures on the environment, and effects of exposure to degraded environmental conditions to human health.
The EH curriculum then branches out into areas of specialization, including air pollution, environmental chemistry, environmental health management, hazardous waste, radiation biology, risk assessment, and water quality.
The Industrial Hygiene (IH) Program at the University of Michigan (UM) is one of the longest-standing and most highly regarded IH Programs in the country. Graduates from our program have gone on to leadership positions in private industry, government, and academia in the U.S. and throughout the world.
The Toxicology Program offers curricula leading to a Master of Public Health (MPH), Master of Science (MS), or a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree.