The Division of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health focuses on environmental and occupational health concerns, from investigating hazards in our environment to establishing the basis for public health policy. Environmental health is focused on how the environment - where we live and work, what we eat, the air we breathe, etc. - impacts human health. The aim of our program is to improve the health of individuals and communities by conducting rigorous and collaborative research to identify risks, reduce hazards, and inform public health policies. We prepare future leaders through MPH, MS, and PhD degrees. Our areas of study include environmental chemistry, food safety, infectious diseases, environmental and occupational epidemiology, exposure sciences, global environmental health, industrial hygiene, injury and violence prevention, occupational and environmental health nursing, occupational and environmental medicine, and toxicology. We also offer a 4+1 combined undergraduate/graduate track, and a certificate program in American Indian Public Health and Wellness. Our graduates are leaders in the field, making a difference in protecting public health regionally, nationally, and around the globe in business and industry, education, state and federal government, healthcare, military services, public health organizations, and many other sectors.
UMN SPH Division of Environmental Health Sciences的外部链接
420 Delaware St.
1260 Mayo
US，MN，Minneapolis，55455
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Attend the next ASPPH Presents Webinar: The Important of Voting and Countering Misinformation in Public Health. With Dean Melinda Pettigrew featuring on the discussion panel! Register Here: https://bit.ly/4etSQhI
SPH to EIS - a Public Health Pipeline. Multiple students from the divisions of Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology have served in the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service as "disease detectives" investigating public health threats across the United States. These students credit a variety of skills they gained through their education at SPH - including leadership training, adaptability, applied learning, and a multidisciplinary approach - for preparing them for success with the EIS. “One of the things that really makes Minnesota so strong as a school of public health is also what makes it a great pathway into the EIS — its strong focus on applied public health." - Melanie Firestone, PhD Read more in this feature article from SPH: https://lnkd.in/gkJuzCNk
We are excited to share this exciting news! It is a well-deserved honor and recognition of Dr. Osterholm and the innumerable contributions he has made to public health and infectious disease research. #umnproud #publichealth ??
I am immensely pleased to announce that the University of Minnesota has established the Michael T. Osterholm Endowed Chair in Infectious Disease Research and Policy at our school. Dr. Osterholm has been an SPH faculty member for 23 years, and this chair recognizes his lifelong dedication to applied public health, infectious disease research, and improving the lives of people all over the world. Generous gifts from philanthropist Christy Walton; the Alumbra Innovations Foundation; and more than 1,000 individual donors provided funding for the chair’s endowment. Congratulations, Mike, on this singular and lasting honor! As a renowned infectious disease expert, Dr. Osterholm guided people across the U.S. through the COVID-19 pandemic with his straight talk about the virus, becoming nearly a household name in the process. Although the pandemic was the most well-known and globally dangerous of the disease outbreaks that he has tackled throughout his long career, Dr. Osterholm’s research and public health action on H5N1 (avian flu), Ebola, MERS, and H1N1 influenza had already brought him widespread international respect — he is the only UMN faculty member to have been inducted to both the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Osterholm will not hold the chair and will continue as an SPH faculty member and UMN Regents Professor; the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP); a professor in the UMN Technological Leadership Institute in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering; and an adjunct professor in the University of Minnesota Medical School. https://lnkd.in/gUU-AMzh University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Registration is open for 2024-2025 Hearing and Spirometry Training and Refresher Courses from the Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety. Please share with anyone who needs this training! Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/gqgs7_6Z
Congratulations, Dr. Jesse D Berman, on your NIEHS R01 award for this important research! ??
I am excited to receive a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) R01 award to examine the risk of acute #airpollution on populations with existing #respiratorydisease. Working with a multidisciplinary team of pulmonologists at the Veterans Health Administration (Arianne Baldomero, MD, MS and Dr. Christine Wendt), biostatisticians at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (Dr. Mark Fiecas), GIS experts at U-Spatial, and environmental epidemiologists with the Yale School of the Environment (Dr. Michelle Bell and Dr. Suelkee Heo), we will develop a unique multi million person individual-level cohort with a nationwide geography and tease out intersections between environmental, individual, and community risk factors contributing to disease. Lots of interesting data!
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kyle Hill, Ph. D., M.P.H. on being named a 2024 Associate at the U of M Institute on the Environment (IonE). Dr. Hill was recognized as an early-career scholar focused on developing community-engaged, interdisciplinary, environmental research. We are #umnproud of this well-deserved recognition.?? https://lnkd.in/gf5GKNJd
Did you know our hazmat and hazwoper training program provides worker training in emergency response, waste site worker, and more? Available online and in person. Get certified or renew your training! Student discounts available. Learn more at https://hazmat.umn.edu
"As mosquito species become established, people are potentially going to get exposed to a wide range of diseases they carry." - Associate Professor Jonathan Oliver. Dr. Oliver was featured in an article in Time, "Why Mosquitoes Are So Dangerous Right Now" https://lnkd.in/erU7pRuN
Sweat it out!?? Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH, Residency Director for the Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety (MCOHS) Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, was recently featured in this CNN article highlighting the health benefits of saunas. https://lnkd.in/gUD3SzsW
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Patricia Jewett! Dr. Jewett is a population health scientist with a research focus on firearm injury prevention, health disparities, and social determinants of health. Welcome, Dr. Jewett! We are excited to have you as a member of our distinguished Environmental Health Sciences faculty!