The Department of Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) strives to equip students with the knowledge and skills to accomplish the following:

• Apply scientific principles in toxicology, industrial hygiene, global environmental health (resource management and environmental health in developing countries),  policy, oncology, and disaster management to prevent, detect and mitigate environmental public health problems and threats locally and globally
• Conduct research for innovative solutions to environmental health issues
• Investigate and monitor environmental hazards and community health status resulting from exposures to hazardous substances

The Department provides students the fundamentals needed to assume leadership roles as environmental health professionals in research and practice. For a list of potential Career Opportunities click here.  The Department offers both masters and doctoral degrees.  At the master’s level, both the MPH and MSPH degrees are offered.  The MPH focuses on policy and management aspects of environmental health while the MSPH is geared to the technical aspects of environmental health sciences.  Doctoral degrees offered are the PhD and DrPH.  The PhD is an academic research degree that provides in-depth study into a specific environmental health topic.  The DrPH is designed to prepare students for leadership roles in environmental- and public health practice.   The department offers specialty course work in:

MPH                                       
Environmental Policy
Public Health Disaster Management

MSPH                                       
Toxicology and Risk assessment
Industrial Hygiene
Global Environmental Heath Sciences
Environmental Policy
Public Health Disaster Management

Specialty course work in environmental oncology is only offered at the doctoral (PhD) level.

In addition, the Department of Environmental Health Sciences offers combined degrees with the Schools of Medicine (MD/MPH), Law (JD/MPH), and Social Work (MSW/MPH) so that students may earn a public health degree in combination with their other professional degree.

The Department also offers the environmental health concentration in the undergraduate BSPH program. In addition, students who show exceptional ability may be eligible for the combined BS/MPH or BS/MSPH degrees.

The Center for Applied Environmental Public Health delivers MPH programs for mid-career professionals by distance learning with specialty course work in: Occupational Health and Safety Management, Occupational and Environmental Health, and Disaster Management. The Center also offers the MSPH with specialty coursework in Industrial Hygiene. For more information about distance learning or mid-career degrees in Environmental Health Sciences, please visit http://dl.caeph.tulane.edu.

Tulane has some of the most advanced equipement I've been able to work with. Before I came here, I knew and understood a lot of the procedures but didn't have access to the equipment. When you come to Tulane, the equipment and facilities are here.
- Melanie Ramson, MSPH, alumna