Graduate Minor in Human Health Risk Assessment
About the Graduate Minor
Risk assessments are performed to evaluate and quantify human health risks from hazardous environmental exposures, often to support decision-making or regulation. Exposures of importance include chemicals, radiation, and infectious agents. The graduate minor in Human Health Risk Assessment is designed to give graduate students who are specializing in public health, engineering, or other fields the knowledge and technical skills needed to conduct introductory-level risk assessments. Evidence evaluation and quantitative risk analysis will be taught, utilizing data from case studies of hazards in the environment (water and air), the workplace, food, and consumer products. Students will have the opportunity to apply risk assessment approaches to an independent project in the culminating course of the program.
Admission Requirements
Graduate minors are designed to complement students' training by providing basic knowledge in topics outside their primary discipline. All matriculated graduate students in quarter programs are eligible to enroll. Completion of a college-level statistics course with a grade of C or higher is recommended for this minor.
Students must receive approval from their home program and the Dornsife School of Public Health and complete the necessary paperwork with the DSPH Academic Advising Team.
Program Requirements
| Required Courses * | 9.0 | |
| Evidence Evaluation for Identification of Environmental Hazards | ||
or EOH 805 | Evidence Evaluation for Identification of Environmental Hazards | |
| Quantitative Risk Analysis for Environmental Health | ||
or ENVE 727 | Risk Assessment | |
| Applied Human Health Risk Assessment | ||
| Elective (Choose One) ** | 3.0 | |
| Statistical Inference I | ||
| Behavior and Social Change Theories | ||
| Data-based Engineering Modeling | ||
| Environmental Policy | ||
| Biostatistics | ||
| Environmental Assessment | ||
| Principles and Practice of Environmental and Occupational Health | ||
| Environmental and Occupational Toxicology | ||
or EOH 810 | Environmental and Occupational Toxicology | |
| Environmental Exposure Science | ||
or EOH 812 | Environmental Exposure Science | |
| Environmental and Occupational Health Policy | ||
or EOH 815 | Environmental and Occupational Health Policy | |
| Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology | ||
or EOH 825 | Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology | |
| Crisis and Risk Communication in Public Health | ||
| Introduction to Epidemiology | ||
| Health Management and Policy I | ||
| Total Credits | 12.0 | |
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Completion of a college-level statistics course with a grade of C or higher is recommended for this minor.
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Students may substitute another elective for those in the elective list, with Program Director approval.
Additional Information
For more information about this graduate minor, please contact:
DSPH Academic Advising Team
Office of Education
dsphadvising@drexel.edu
Additional information can be found on the Dornsife School of Public Health website.
