College of Public Health

Message from the Chair

Environmental health science and its influence on public health are at a defining time in history. Our discipline is central to profound global challenges associated with energy demands and production, population growth and urbanization, and climate change. Environmental resources essential to human health including water, land, and air are being seriously threatened. Now more than ever, environmental health research and trained practitioners are needed to address these threats.

Our faculty and students are in a unique position to address these profound global challenges. Our research-intensive faculty are engaged in diverse, but complimentary, cutting-edge research that spans the laboratory, translational, and population sciences. These research activities recognize the global dimension of the threats we face and occur in multiple locations around the world.

We are situated within a dynamic and growing College of Public Health that is integral to one of the most comprehensive campuses in the nation. The opportunity for interdisciplinary research and education are unparalleled here. OSU is home to no fewer than eight colleges or schools offering training and research in environmental sciences. When coupled with opportunities on the health sciences side, there appears a perfect storm of interdisciplinary research and education with Environmental Health Sciences at the center. These academic interests have strong ties to the community through the College's Center for Public Health Practice and the Division's external Environmental Advisory Committee that includes local and state agencies, business, and community partners.

Whether your interest is research, education, or practice, I invite you to join with our faculty, staff, students, university, and community partners to achieve our shared goal of protecting human health from environmental and occupational threats.

Timothy J. Buckley, Chair
Division of Environmental Health Sciences