DEGREES
DEGREE
OPTIONS • SPECIAL
PROGRAMS OF STUDY
Degree Options
- Master of Public Health (MPH)
- Master of Science (MS)
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Master of Public Health (MPH)
The MPH in EOHS trains students in the areas of exposure and risk assessment, environmental and occupational toxicity and injury, risk management and evaluation, and policy. Students have field experiences with health, environmental, and occupational organizations in the public and private sectors.
Master of Science (MS)
The MS in EOHS is a research degree that prepares students for research and program management in companies, laboratories, and policy-making organizations. It also prepares students for PhD-level epidemiologic research and study.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
The PhD in EOHS provides students with the conceptual and analytical skills needed to pursue research careers in academia, research institutes, consulting firms, and to be legislative and regulatory staff at government or industry research programs.
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Special Programs of Study
Industrial Hygiene (IH)
IH takes an interdisciplinary approach to addressing health hazards in the workplace and in the general environment. The MS and MPH curricula give students both quantitative skills and field experiences that link exposure assessment to hazard reduction. Research skills are emphasized in the MS, while the MPH offers primarily a practice-based approach to the field.
HSAT is a subspecialty of the industrial hygiene program that requires courses in ground water contamination, hazardous materials management and participation in the 40-hour General Site Worker course, in addition to the general industrial hygiene program course work requirements. The goal is to develop practitioners and researchers who will solve problems in interdisciplinary settings.
OS provides students pertinent scientific, engineering and public health training to help them protect workers and the general public from injury. Students may obtain a MS or MPH degree, taking courses in Public Health and Engineering.
This is a two-year, ACGME-accredited training program leading to a MPH degree and board eligibility in Occupational Medicine. It is open to physicians who have completed an ACGME-accredited internship year in the U.S. and are eligible for medical licensure in Illinois.
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
EOHS provides a MS and PhD with an emphasis in Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology. Students do their course work in both EOHS and Epidemiology.
Joint Degrees
Certificates
The EHI Certificate provides a background in the major Environmental Health Informatics themes including data mining, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and quantitative risk management.
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