PUBH 8126 - Prin Exposure/Risk Assessmnt

Credit Hours: (3)

Description Understanding of exposure and risk is a necessary application and of growing importance in environmental health studies. This course is designed to provide concepts, methods, models, statistics and theory necessary for the assessment of exposure to environmental agents and health risk from exposures. Topics to be covered include: the selection of study populations; identification and quantification of exposure pathways; the design of exposure assessment strategies; exposure measurement methods; risk assessment framework, modeling of health effects; and derivation of risk estimates. Specific examples of exposure and risk assessments will be analyzed and critiqued.