PUBH 27 - Public Health and the Environment
- Recent Professors
- Julie Butler
- Recent Semesters
- Fall 2026, Fall 2025
- Class Size
- 35 students
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisite
- PUBH 24
- Fall 2026 Sections
- View Fall 2026 sections of PUBH 27
- Transfers To
- CSU
- Description
- Environmental health is the field that investigates the biological, chemical, and physical influences on human health. The course focuses on issues of environmental exposures, resulting health effects, and appropriate controls for these hazards. Emphasis is placed on food safety, pests and pesticides, air quality, global climate change, water quality, wastewater, solid and hazardous wastes, industrial hygiene, and radiation.