 | Requirements for MSPH with specialty coursework in Global Environmental Health Sciences The mission of the MSPH program in Environmental Health Scences is to prepare students to recognize, evaluate, and control environmental health problems; use quantitative methods to evaluate environmental data; and to manage delivery of environmental health services. The student must meet all requirements for admission into the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. In addition: - Students entering this program will typically have a baccalaureate degree in a life or physical science, or engineering.
- Mid-career/professional students will typically have a scientific degree and three or more years experience as a health professional.
- A Graduate Records Exam (GRE, added scores verbally and quantitative sections) score of 1100 or higher is required.
- TOEFL exam scores may be needed as described in the general admissions requirements.
In addition to the School's academic standards, the department requires for graduation: - Successful completion of 45 hours (pre-professional program) of course work.
- Successful completion of a 200 hour practicum, practicum report, culminating experience, and thesis.
- Presentation of culminating experience findings in departmental seminar.
At the completion of the MSPH degree, the student will be able to: - Recognize, evaluate, and control environmental health problems (ENHS 6030, ENHS 6100, ENHS 6600, ENHS 6040, ENHS 6560, ENHS 6610, ENHS 6400, ENHS 6500, ENHS 6510, ENHS 6520, ENHS 6530)
- Apply environmental health principles to solve public health problems (SPHL 6010, SPHL 6030, ENHS 6100, ENHS 6600, ENHS 7620, ENHS 6040, ENHS 6310, ENHS 6410, ENHS 6500, ENHS 6520, ENHS 6560)
- Use quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate data (BIO 6030, EPI 6030, ENHS 7620, ENHS 7540, ENHS 7660)
- Provide environmental health services (ENHS 6030, ENHS 6040, ENHS 6400, ENHS 7530, ENHS 7500, ENHS 6410)
- Interpret and evaluate research in environmental health (ENHS 7860, ENHS 7000, ENHS 6310)
- Communicate environmental health concepts or concerns in writing or verbally to peer groups, environmental health practitioners, and the public (ENHS 6680, ENHS 7000, HSMG 6030)
- Evaluate environmenal health concerns including water quality, waste management and resource sustainability using basic concepts of mitigation; (ENHS 6040, ENHS 6400, ENHS 6500, ENHS 6510, ENHS 6030, ENHS 6100)
- Perform fate and transport field and laboratory evaluation to assess the toxicity and the chemical, physical, and biological interactions to pollution;(ENHS 6520, ENHS 6560, ENHS 6030, ENHS 7400, ENHS 6100, ENHS 7540, ENHS 6000, ENHS 6630)
- Apply innovative techniques for water, wastewater and residuals management; (ENHS 641, ENHS 753, ENHS 6510, ENHS 6100, ENHS 7540, ENHS 7020, ENHS 6670)
- Describe methods for assessment, prevention and control of biological, chemical and physical environmental health problems related to the rapid global industrialization; (ENHS 6410, ENHS 7530, ENHS 6040, ENHS 6030, ENHS 6100, ENHS 7660)
- Design technologies to providing safe food,water, and waste in developing countries with a focus on small communities (ENHS 6410, ENHS 6510, ENHS 7530, ENHS 6030, ENHS 6400, ENHS 6040, ENHS 6100)
| School Core Course Requirements (18 credits): | - SPHL 6010: Biological Basis of Disease
| | - SPHL 6030: Social & Behavioral Aspects of Global Health
| | - BIOS 6030: Introductory Biostatistics
| | - EPID 6030: Epidemiologic Methods I
| | - HSMG 6030: Principles of Health Systems Administration and Management
| | - ENHS 6030: Survey of Environmental Health
| | | EHS Departmental MSPH Core Course Requirements (10 credits): | - ENHS 6600: Principles of Toxicology
| | - ENHS 7620: Environmental Health Risk Assessment
| | - ENHS 6100: Fundamentals of Environmental Contamination
| | - ENHS 7000: Environmental Health Seminar
| | Electives (17 or more credit hours are required):
Students and advisors work together to select elective courses totaling 17 or more credit hours from the list below according to the student's area of interest. Other EHS departmental courses and offerings from other department not listed here may be substituted as appropriate to meet educational objectives. | | Global Environmental Health Sciences: Developing Countries (17 credits) | - ENHS 6040: Environmental Health for Developing Countries
| | - ENHS 6400: Elements of Environmental Practices in Public Health
| | - ENHS 6410: Water and Sanitation Field Operations
| | - ENHS 6520: Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry
| | - ENHS 7400: Field Applications of Environmental Health
| | - ENHS 6560: Environmental microbiology
| | | Global Environmental Health Sciences: Resource Management: (15 credits) | - ENHS 6500: Toxic and Hazardous Waste Management
| | - ENHS 6510: Water Quality Management
| | - ENHS 6520: Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry
| | - ENHS 7540: Environmental Chemistry
| | - ENHS 6560: Environmental microbiology
| | | Other electives (review EHS courses for full list): | - ENHS 6920: Environmental Sampling, monitoring, and analysis in a disaster
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Elective Coursework: Students pursuing an MSPH in Environmental Health Sciences can choose to take elective coursework in either Developing Countries or Resource Management (see course electives above) Course and Credit Requirements (total of 45 credits required) The practicum is designed to provide students with practice experience related to their field of study. The practicum is a minimum of 200 hours in an agency or other practice setting under the direction of a preceptor. A practicum report summarizes the field experiences. Click here to download practicum handbook.
Past examples of practicum opportunities in Environmental Health Sciences Include: - Chesterfield County Water Utilities in Richmond, VA; Diversity Internship Program for the Utilities
- Asian Institute of Technology, Padhumthani, Thailand
- Louisiana Office of Public Health, Section of Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology, New Orleans, Louisiana
- New Orleans Health Department, Asthma Program
- Tulane Environmental Health Sciences (CBRP)
- Saku Central Hospital, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Japan
- Ferrate Treatment Technologies, LLC, Orlando, Florida
- Sewerage and Water Board, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Tulane Institute for Water Resources and Policy
- US Forest Service, Boise national Incident Management Organization
- Department of Health and Hospitals, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Vail Salvation Army, Edwards, CO
- National Environmental Education Foundation, Washington, DC
- Waldemar S. Nelson & Co., New Orleans, LA
- Department of Health and Hospitals, Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology Section, New Orleans, Louisiana
Culminating Experience Requirements MPH students in Environmental Health Sciences are required to conduct a publich health analysis of in fulfillment of the culminating experience. The analysis can involve investigating a public health problem or proposing ways to conduct an intervention. upon completion, the student must present the findings during the departmental seminar in the last semester of studies. Download culminating experience handbook. Sample Student Schedules Download a sample student schedule for the MSPH in Global Environmental Health Sciences: in either Resource Management HERE or Developing Countries HERE.
For more information about the MSPH degree in Environmental Health Sciences, please contact Erica Geary at 504.988.5374. | | |
