Chair: Tara Sabo-Attwood
Ph.D. Program Director: Joseph Bisesi
Graduate Coordinator: Victoria Houghton
The Department of Environmental and Global Health offers graduate work leading to the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Health Science, and Master of Public Health. The official minimum requirements for these degrees are listed in the Graduate Degrees section of this catalog.
The Department of Environmental and Global Health conducts cutting edge research at the nexus of human and environmental systems, blending research focused on how emerging pathogens, chemical contaminants, climate change, nutrition, and socio-economic factors influence the health of humans and animals on a global scale. Department faculty, scientists, and students employ numerous disciplines in studying these environmental exposure-health links and prevention/control measures: virology, bacteriology, parasitology, entomology, toxicology, epidemiology, water sciences, veterinary health, environmental engineering, aerosol biology, etc. A central theme for the department is the interdisciplinary thinking called One Health which reflects the collaborations necessary to tackle public health’s most difficult problems. Faculty, students and staff often perform research in the laboratories in the Emerging Pathogens Institute, the Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology, the Center for African Studies, or the Aquatic Pathobiology Laboratory.
For more information, please see the program pages below and our website: http://egh.phhp.ufl.edu.
