Teaching

Principle of Environmental Health

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2019
PI: Prof. Douglas Dockery
This course focuses on analytic methods for assessing environmental exposures and hazards. This course is directed at first year Environmental Health graduate students and MPH students with some knowledge of environmental health. Students will learn methods for quantitative risk assessment and public health responses to environmental hazards through case studies. Students are expected to come to class prepared to present and discuss each of the cases.  An expert in each case will provide commentary after the in-class case discussion...

Fundamentals of Human Environmental Exposure Assessment

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2018
PI: Prof. David MacIntosh
This course is designed to provide the tools and foundations necessary to understand the fate and transport of environmental contaminants in various environmental media and to estimate their impact on human exposure. The course will consider human exposure assessment in the context of risk assessment. Physical-chemical properties of contaminants and environmental media will be considered as they relate to developing basic models of human exposure.

The Impact of Buildings on Health, Productivity and Sustainability

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2018
PIs: Prof. Joseph G. Allen, Dr. Jose Guillermo Cedeño Laurent
It is well-known and oft-repeated in environmental health circles that we spend 90% of time indoors. Because this constitutes the vast majority of our exposure time, and concentrations of many indoor pollutants are actually higher indoors than outdoors, it follows logically that indoor environments influence our health. Buildings have the potential for both positive and negative impacts on this indoor exposure, and can mitigate the burden of outdoor pollutants indoors. Over 40 years of research on the indoor...
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Social and Sustainable Innovation driven by the Sustainable Development Goals

Semester: 

Winter

Offered: 

2017
PIs: Prof. John D. Spengler, Dr. Ramon Sanchez
This course will examine the relationship between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , community problems and current sustainable and social solutions to serve as a starting point for developing new solutions that might serve as the business or social cases for new startups in health, sustainability or social ventures

This course will be taught in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico during January of 2017.  Students from Harvard University will take classes along with students from the Autonomous...

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