Environment and Health

Human health depends on healthy environments

Environment, Development and Health is the study of linkages between environmental problems, global development, energy, food security, and health inequalities. This degree program cover topics related to:

  • Identifying underlying social power structures in households and communities, and how these affect health outcomes
  • Applying environment and health concepts, skills, and analysis to real-world problems
  • Understanding how different biological, physical, and social environments influence health and the processes that shape them.
  • Geographical and environmental health impacts and how they show up differently over space and time.

Students who study Environment, Development and Health acquire a highly marketable set of transferable skills that position them to lead in careers across numerous sectors, including environmental monitoring and management, public and community health, and planning and policy development.

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