The Industrial Hygiene graduate program is designed to provide broad training in public health, environmental health, biostatistics, and epidemiology. Building on this public health core, additional IH education and training is required including subjects such as Occupational health and safety, noise and other physical agents, ventilation, industrial hygiene chemistry, and occupational and environmental program management.
This comprehensive program enables students to define occupational and environmental public health problems, identify and evaluate effective solutions, successfully manage appropriate intervention programs, and effectively work with stakeholders. Actual case studies are integrated throughout the curriculum and the student has ample opportunity for hands-on experience using the latest techniques and equipment to recognize and evaluate hazards.
True to our mission, the Center's industrial hygiene education program is designed to furnish an outstanding and individualized course of instruction. Two complementary tracks exist leading to either the MPH or the MSPH degree. The MPH track is designed for individuals with extensive professional experience who desire additional technical and management skills. This program can be completed in as little as one year of full time study. The MSPH program is designed for students with limited professional IH experience. It is a two year program and culminates with the student designing, conducting, and publishing an individual research project.
The IH program and its degrees are fully accredited by the Applied Science Accreditation Commision of the Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology (ABET) under a program developed in cooperation with the American Academy of Industrial Hygiene.
University of Utah (ABET-MS)
Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
375 Chipeta Way Ste C
Salt Lake City, UT 84108
http://www.rmcoeh.utah.edu
Scott Collingwood, PhD
801-581-4800
scott.collingwood@utah.edu
