The environmental health concentration is designed to encourage course work and research that explore relationships among environmental quality, human health, and public policy. Students often focus on understanding the potential of law and policy to protect public health from hazardous substances in air, water, food, soil, landscapes, and consumer products.

There are several themes around which students can focus their studies in this area, such as exposure to hazardous substances; metals and the environment; exposure and risk assessment methods; land use, ecology, and vector-borne disease; air pollution and respiratory illness; agriculture, food safety, and human health; climate change and health; environmental certification programs; and environmental health law and policy.

Faculty: John P. Wargo (Coordinator), Paul Anastas, Shimon C. Anisfeld, Michelle Bell, Gaboury Benoit, Graeme P. Berlyn, Florencia Montagnini, Sheila Olmstead, James E. Saiers