项目介绍

2022年10月18日

Students in the PhD program pursue one of the following tracks:

Environmental Sustainability, Resilience, and Health

The Environmental Sustainability, Resilience and Health (ESRH) track aims to cultivate innovative public health scientists and engineers who address urgent challenges at the intersection of climate, sustainability, resilience, and equity. Students in the track will research anthropogenic drivers and other factors that exacerbate ecological crises, and interventions aimed at adapting to threats and minimizing the diverse impacts on human well-being, with emphasis on equity. Additionally, students focus on how global environmental changes affect human societies, infrastructure, and ecosystems, as well as strategies for adapting to evolving public health threats.

Exposure Sciences and Environmental Epidemiology

The track in Exposure Sciences and Environmental Epidemiology offers research and training opportunities in key topic areas relevant to environmental and occupational health. These areas include air, water, the food system, early life exposures, metals and synthetic chemicals, environmental microbiology, the built environment, global environmental health, molecular and integrated epidemiology, and the investigation of susceptibility factors, occupational health, and effective interventions.

Health Security

The track in Health Security focuses on research and training in a wide, complementary range of topics aimed to reduce health security threats and their impacts, and to increase community resilience to global catastrophic biological risks. Students in this track will focus on identifying major health security risks, applying risk assessment principles to address health security risks, identifying and assessing current initiatives to improve health security, evaluating the effectiveness of health security strategies, and communicating information to inform policy.

Toxicology, Physiology & Molecular Mechanisms

Basic research in this track is focused on discovering novel molecular mechanisms that drive the pathophysiology of major chronic diseases to develop prevention and therapeutic strategies to improve public health. Students in this track will engage in academic training in specific areas of environmental health with in-depth courses in molecular, toxicologic, physiologic, immunologic, and pathophysiologic sciences.