Quick facts
Program location: CU Anschutz
Credit hours: 42-45
Est. time to complete: 2 years
Option: Emphasis in global health
MPH in Environmental & Occupational Health
As a student in this program, you’ll learn how to characterize the human health effects of environmental and occupational hazards and the populations that are most vulnerable to those exposures. In the Department of Environmental & Occupational
Health, we think about the ways that public health professionals can intervene to improve the environment where people live, work, and play. As part of our department, you’ll have access to faculty with a wide range of expertise—from climate
change and disaster preparedness to oil and gas activity to Total Worker Health®.
Quick facts, careers, and skills
When you leave this program, you'll have the skills you need to help solve urgent environmental and worker health and safety issues.
Sample careers
Environmental epidemiologist
Laboratory safety manager
Worksite wellness coordinator
& more
Skills you'll gain
Data management
Geospatial analysis
Translating research to practice
& more
Curriculum
This 42- to 45-credit hour program offers both in-classroom and applied learning experiences. Our curriculum prepares you to address emerging issues by thinking across boundaries to come up with complex solutions. You’ll also learn how to involve communities in addressing unequal distribution of hazards and advocating for justice, cleanliness, and safety. And if your interests are bigger than one country can contain, we offer the option to add an emphasis in global public health, where you’ll learn how to apply environmental and occupational health principles in the global arena.
Total credits: 42
Competencies
| Identifier | Competencies |
| MPH-EHOH 1 | Apply appropriate monitoring methods to environmental and occupational health problems. |
| MPH-EHOH 2 | Describe the movement of agents in the environment and related risks for human disease as well as the quality of air, water, and soil. |
| MPH-EHOH 3 | Analyze important current environmental health problems and variations in health risks across the national or global landscape. |
| MPH-EHOH 4 | Define the principles of resilience and apply these principles in the development of solutions to environmental or occupational health problems. |
| MPH-EHOH 5 | Apply basic skills in geographic information systems (GIS) technology in the evaluation of environmental health problems. |
| MPH-EHOH 6 | Apply theoretical frameworks or empirical evidence to inform or recommend interventions to improve the health, safety, and well-being of workers. |
| MPH-EHOH 7 | Identify the uses of environmental measurements or biomarkers in evaluating exposures, health effects and susceptibility to environmental and occupational disease. |
| MPH-EHOH 8 | Define the scientific characteristics, such as exposure or mode of action, of major biological, chemical, or physical hazards that result in human health risk. |
| MPH-EHOH 9 | Examine the policy framework that shapes environmental health at the federal, state or local levels and the historic and current decision-making processes that inform this framework. |
| MPH-EHOH 10 | Describe historical and contemporary drivers of environmental or occupational health inequities. |
| MPH-EHOH 11 | Recommend strategies to advance environmental justice. |
Adding an emphasis in global health
The MPH in Environmental & Occupational Health + Global Health is a 45-credit-hour program that's designed to provide you with a public health perspective of globalization and global health issues. As a student in this program, you'll gain the skills you need to apply public health methods to address global challenges.
Total credits: 45
Colorado School of Public Health
CU Anschutz
Fitzsimons Building
13001 East 17th Place
3rd Floor
Mail Stop B119
Aurora, CO 80045
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