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Environmental Health Sciences

The Division of Environmental Health Sciences teaches, researches, advocates and works collaboratively and cooperatively with researchers and community partners to advance environmental public health practices.

Our faculty engages, trains and mentors the next generation of environmental health scientists and environmental public health practitioners. These public health experts go on to careers focused on identifying, preventing and mitigating human and animal exposures to and diseases caused by harmful chemical, microbiological and physical stressors in the environment.

Academic programs

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.

Occupational Safety and Health Graduate Certificate
An interdisciplinary offering with the College of Engineering, learn how to identify, evaluate and control hazardous situations and exposures that may impact workers and the community.
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.
Occupational Safety and Health Graduate Minor
Current graduate students can pursue this interdisciplinary offering with the College of Engineering to learn how to identify, evaluate and control hazardous situations and exposures that may impact workers and the community.

Research expertise

Infectious and toxic-based disease risk assessment

Environmental and occupational health monitoring, assessment and modeling

Water and wastewater surveillance

Food safety

Air quality surveillance

Human exposure and disease biomarkers

Toxicology and epigenetics

Community and environmental epidemiology

Environmental justice

Environmental analytical chemistry

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: