Environmental Health Sciences

Degrees and certificates

PhD Environmental Public Health

Develop your research expertise as you learn and understand the intersection between public health and the environment, and the multidisciplinary approaches needed to make an impact.

MPH Environmental Health Sciences

Develop the knowledge and skills to identify and limit human exposure to hazards in the environment.

MS Environmental Public Health

Gain greater understanding of the connections between human health and the environment including epidemiology, toxicology and global health.

BSPH Environmental Public Health

An interdisciplinary specialization for students who have an interest in both the environment and health, how environments impact health and a desire to find solutions to the challenges of environmental effects on the health of communities.

Global One Health Graduate Certificate

To more efficiently and effectively achieve the best health outcomes for people, animals and the environment, develop your expertise in the surveillance, prevention, mitigation and intervention strategies that promote a healthy world.

Environmental Public Health Risk Assessment Graduate Certificate

Gain the knowledge and skills applicable to exposure hazard assessment and disease risk assessments involving environmental and occupational toxic chemical and infectious microbial agents.
 

Research expertise


Environmental and occupational health monitoring, assessment and modeling


Infectious and toxic-based disease risk assessment


Water and wastewater surveillance


Food safety


Air quality surveillance


Toxicology and epigenetics


Human exposure and disease biomarkers


Environmental Justice


Environmental analytical chemistry


Community and environmental epidemiology

 

Interdisciplinary partnerships

Division faculty collaborate with experts across Ohio State and those at local, state, national and international organizations to address population-based environmental public health issues. At the university alone, our partners include:

  • The James Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Global One Health initiative
  • Global Water Institute
  • Infectious Diseases Institute
  • Sustainability Institute
  • Food and Agricultural Transformation
  • Translational Data Analytics Institute

See our partners

 
Jiyoung Lee

A message from the chair

Our faculty and students are uniquely positioned to tackle the profound global challenges posed by environmental contaminants and stressors, including climate change, which threaten public health. Our faculty engage in high-impact and diverse research — from laboratory- and field-based environmental health science to broader big-data-driven and translational sciences. This research recognizes the global environmental burdens that impact people and ecosystems worldwide. We are deeply committed to applying the principles and practices of environmental health to a "One Health" approach to teaching, research and practice. Now more than ever, environmental health researchers and practitioners are needed to address a myriad of environmental challenges that pose health threats in workplaces and communities.

Jiyoung Lee, PhD

 

Division faculty and staff

Jiyoung Lee, PhD
Chair and Professor, Co-Director, Ecology Epidemiology and Population Health Program, Infectious Disease Institute
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Assistant Professor
Ayaz Hyder
Associate Professor, Core Faculty, Translational Data Analytics Institute
Min-Ae Song
Assistant Professor, Co-Director, Undergraduate Honors Program
Darryl B. Hood, PhD
Professor and Dean's Fellow for Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Excellence
 

Division faculty and staff

 
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Careers in environmental health sciences

From professions such as environmental public health practitioners working at local health departments to professors and researchers working at major universities, Ohio State positions its graduates for success to protect the health of people and animals from hazards in the environment.

Career options

 

Division News

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