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Environmental Health Science (EHSC-GA)

The Environmental Health Science program at New York University offers a comprehensive curriculum that covers various aspects of environmental health, including pollutant sources, their fate, and impacts on human health and the environment.

Course Offerings

• EHSC-GA 1004: Environmental Health: Introduction to basic concepts of environmental health, including pollutant sources, their fate, and impacts in the environment and occupational settings.
• EHSC-GA 1005: Ecotoxicology: Hudson River Case Study: Comprehensive introduction to the properties, behavior, and measurement of suspended particles, including background on their underlying physical and chemical characteristics.
• EHSC-GA 1006: Toxicology: Introduction to the science of toxicology, stressing basic concepts essential to understanding the action of exogenous chemical agents on biological systems.
• EHSC-GA 1009: Biomarker Environmental Exposures and Human Health: Application of biomarkers in human populations to evaluate the health hazards and risk of exposure to environmental pollutants at low levels.
• EHSC-GA 1010: Global Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Health: Gives the student an appreciation for the scientific bases for the known effects of weather on air pollution and, conversely, for the known and hypothesized effects of air pollution on weather and climate change, as well as their respective interactions with human health.
• EHSC-GA 2018: DNA Replication, Damage & Repair: The basic processes involved in DNA replication, damage formation, and processing, with an emphasis on eukaryotic cells.
• EHSC-GA 2025: Communication skills for Biomedical Students: Basic principles of effective scientific communication are presented in this course.
• EHSC-GA 2026: Research Methods in Molecular Toxicology: Introduce graduate students to the molecular biology research strategies and techniques that are widely used in toxicology.
• EHSC-GA 2031: Tutorials in Env Hlth Sc: Tutorials arranged on an individual basis with a faculty member for the advanced study of special subjects in the environmental health sciences.
• EHSC-GA 2033: Aerosol Science of Particulate Air Pollution: Comprehensive introduction to the properties, behavior, and measurement of suspended particles, including background on their underlying physical and chemical characteristics.
• EHSC-GA 2035: Principles of Environmental Measurements: Instrumentation, procedures, and strategies for quantitative evaluation and control of hazardous exposures.
• EHSC-GA 2037: Environmental Measurements Laboratory I: Covers the instrumental techniques and procedures for the subjects covered in G48.2035.
• EHSC-GA 2038: Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health: This course introduces students to the general principles of industrial hygiene and occupational health.
• EHSC-GA 2039: Introduction to Epidemiology: Epidemiology, one of the key sciences of public health, is the study of the distribution and determinants of disease in humans.
• EHSC-GA 2040: Molecular and Genetic Toxicology: Analyzes the modes by which organisms handle damage to DNA by physical and chemical agents, the mechanisms of converting damage to mutations, and the theoretical basis for carcinogenesis screening methods utilizing mutagenesis.
• EHSC-GA 2042: Genetic Susceptibility & Toxicogenomics: Genetic variation at many loci has been described in human and wildlife populations.
• EHSC-GA 2043: Cell Signaling & Environmental Stress: In the last few years, we have gained extensive knowledge of how cell surface receptors transmit signals to the nucleus, thereby controlling the expression of genetic programs involved in many cellular processes, including normal and aberrant cell growth.
• EHSC-GA 2044: Epidemiologic Methods: Principles introduced in G48.2039 are further developed.
• EHSC-GA 2046: Epidemiology of Cancer: The epidemiology of cancer in its biological context and illustration of how it could be used in the search for cancer etiology and control.
• EHSC-GA 2047: Intro to Survival Analysis: This course reviews the basic concept of survival analysis, including hazard functions, survival functions, types of censoring, Kaplan-Meier estimates, and log-rank tests.
• EHSC-GA 2049: Epidemiologic Methods II: You’ve probably heard the phrase “correlation doesn’t equal causation”.
• EHSC-GA 2050: Epigenetics & Environmental Diseases: Covers environmental effects on gene expression via epigenetic mechanisms; DNA methylation, histone modifications and micro RNA.
• EHSC-GA 2051: Children's Environmental Health: Provides in-depth understanding of the rapidly evolving field of children’s environmental health.
• EHSC-GA 2052: Forensic Toxicology: The purpose of this course is to provide basic theoretical knowledge as well as practical experience in forensic toxicology.
• EHSC-GA 2053: Community Partnerships Through the Lens of Environmental Scientists: Biomedical research is often conducted without meaningful connections to impacts on communities.
• EHSC-GA 2054: Fundamentals of Molecular Pathology: Molecular pathology is an emerging discipline spanning pathology, molecular biology, biochemistry, proteomics and genetics.
• EHSC-GA 2055: Radiation Exposures and Health Effects: This course introduces students to the general principles underlying the health effects of a variety of environmental radiation exposures.
• EHSC-GA 2056: Environmental Disasters and Public Health: The course will rely on lecture and small group work for students to gain in-depth understanding of factors contributing to and necessary responses to natural and man-made disasters.
• EHSC-GA 2100: Indep Study: Ergonomics & Biomech: This course is intended to promote original research in the general fields of ergonomics and biomechanics.
• EHSC-GA 2101: Biomechanics: This course consists of two parts.
• EHSC-GA 2111: Physical Biomechanics: This course consists of two parts.
• EHSC-GA 2112: Applied Biomech in The Analysis of Human Perf: This course builds on the Physical Biomechanics and Biomechanics courses.
• EHSC-GA 2121: Practicum in Ergonomics & Biomechanics I: Focuses on methods and instruments for data collection and analysis of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).
• EHSC-GA 2123: Rsch Meth in Ergonomics and Biomech: This course gives graduate-level students an overview of common study designs in scientific and medical research and specific knowledge in the application of these research methods to the field of ergonomics and biomechanics.
• EHSC-GA 2131: Ergonomic Issues I: Physcl Factors in Wrkplc: Ergonomics is the study of fitting the workplace to the capabilities of the human worker.
• EHSC-GA 2132: Ergonomic Issues II: Physcl Factors in Wrkplc: Covers environmental influences in the workplace that are relevant to the development of musculoskeletal problems.
• EHSC-GA 2133: Appl Ergonomic Methods: This study project is intended to guide students in the application of ergonomic methods.
• EHSC-GA 2303: Intro to Biostatistics: Introduction to probability and statistical methods utilized in the analysis and interpretation of experimental and epidemiological data.
• EHSC-GA 2307: Toxicology of Metals & Toxic Tort Litigation: Metals represent serious and persistent environmental contaminants.
• EHSC-GA 2309: Environmental Carcinogenesis: Introductory course that emphasizes current understandings of how environmental agents contribute to human cancer.
• EHSC-GA 2310: Principles of Toxicology: Broad introduction to the science of toxicology, stressing basic concepts essential to the understanding of the action of exogenous chemical agents on biological systems.
• EHSC-GA 2311: Organ System Toxicology: Overview of the types of injury that may be produced in specific mammalian organs and organ systems by exposure to chemical toxicants.
• EHSC-GA 2314: Research Models of Environment Exposures: Research models of diseases that are associated with environmental exposures.
• EHSC-GA 2315: Environ Immunotoxicology: Overview of the components and functions of the immune system in order to set the stage for a discussion of how toxicants impact the immune response and alter host susceptibility to disease.
• EHSC-GA 2330: Adv Topics in Survival Analysis: This course provides advanced topics in survival analysis in a seminar setting.
• EHSC-GA 2332: Methods for The Analysis of Longitudinal Data: This course covers statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal data, which mainly are collected in the form of repeated measurements over time.
• EHSC-GA 2336: Introduction to Statistical Inference I: This course introduces the central ideas, core principles and major methods in statistical inference illustrated by a wide range of examples.
• EHSC-GA 2337: Modern Methods for Causal Inference: The goal of this course is to introduce a core set of modern statistical concepts and techniques for causal inference from randomized and observational studies.
• EHSC-GA 2338: Statistical Methods for Clinical and Translational Researach: This course will provide a statistical perspective on issues in the design, analysis, and interpretation of clinical and translational research studies.
• EHSC-GA 2339: Introduction to Bayesian Modeling: Provides practical introduction to Bayesian modeling, including data analysis and building models within the Bayesian framework.
• EHSC-GA 2340: Regression Modeling I: Covers intermediate to advanced levels of regression models beyond basic linear regression knowledge.
• EHSC-GA 2341: Statistical Learning: Introduce students to basic data mining and machine learning tools, prepare them with skills of analyzing “big data”.
• EHSC-GA 2342: Introduction to Statistical Inference II: This course covers the central ideas, core principles and major methods in statistical inference including hypothesis testing, confidence sets, linear models, Bayesian approaches and nonparametric inference.
• EHSC-GA 2343: Regression Modeling II: Covers advanced levels of regression models for dependent data and time-to-event data.
• EHSC-GA 2344: Critical Thinking in Epidemiology: One of the essential tasks practicing epidemiologists perform is to critically review the literature.
• EHSC-GA 2345: Translating Research for Public Health Policy and Practice: This course aims to build competencies in applying epidemiologic research concepts and evidence to “real-world” policy and practice efforts in population and environmental health.
• EHSC-GA 2346: Computational Biostatistics: This course covers statistical computing methods needed for graduate-level biostatistics.
• EHSC-GA 2347: Advanced Analytic Methods for Multi-omics Data Analysis and Integration: This course focuses on the analysis of high-dimensional omics data generated through advanced high-throughput and massspectrum technologies in biomedical settings.
• EHSC-GA 3001: Master's Thesis Research: This course provides MS students with dedicated time to complete their MS thesis research.
• EHSC-GA 3002: Doctoral Thesis Research: This course provides PhD students with dedicated time to undertake their PhD thesis research.