APBS 6200G - Environmental Determinants of Health

This course explores interactions between environment and human health. It comprehensively addresses principles of environmental health followed by specific issues regarding harmful environmental agents and Canadian and global environmental health challenges. It is designed to be delivered by an interdisciplinary faculty team, potentially including members from the faculties of Health Sciences, Science, Social Science and Humanities, and Engineering and Applied Science. It attracts health and non-health graduate students interested in the multifactorial nature of environmental diseases. At the end of this course, students should have a broad understanding of how human health is contextually determined by our environment and be familiar with published seminal environmental health research.
Credit hours: 3
Prerequisite(s) with concurrency: Enrolment in the APBS graduate program.
Cross-listed: HLSC 5314G