Environmental Health

This concentration is designed to prepare students to work in various environmental health fields. Students typically have strong science backgrounds and take courses in the Biomedical Graduate Programs (e.g., toxicology, epidemiology, immunology), Public Health Program, Bioethics Program, or Medical Anthropology.

Student Research

•  "Mitigating Impacts of Agricultural Irrigation on Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa" by Niva Kramek '08

Typical Courses from the MES program

• ENVS 404 - Urban Environments: Speaking About Lead in West Philadelphia
• ENVS 406 - Community Based Environmental Health
• ENVS 407 - Urban Environments: Prevention of Tobacco Smoking in Adolescents
• ENVS 408 - Urban Environments: The Urban Asthma Epidemic

Typical Courses from Other Schools at Penn

School of Nursing

• NURS 513 - Obesity and Society
• NURS 516 - International Nutrition: Political Economy of World Hunger
• NURS 521 - Current Topics in Nutrition
• NURS 677 - Environmental Toxicology: Risk Assessment and Health Effects

Public Health

• PUBH 503  - Environmental and Occupational Health
• PUBH-500 - Introduction to Public Health

Wharton School

• BPUB 761 - Risk Analysis and Environmental Management

School of Design

• CPLN 646 - Geography and Public Health

Urban Studies Program

• URBS 416 - Metropolitan Food Systems

School of Social Work & Social Policy

• SWRK 730 - Community Mapping