Program Overview

Industrial Hygiene Program Overview

The Industrial Hygiene program is devoted to anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling environmental factors posing risk to workers and the community, which arise from the workplace. The program is offered through the UTHealth School of Public Health, leading to degrees of Master of Public Health (MPH) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

Curriculum

The industrial hygiene curriculum for the MPH is accredited by the Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission of ABET. The curriculum is based on a public health model for practice, preparing graduates to participate in a multi-disciplinary approach to planning, implementing, managing, and evaluating programs and services for worker health and safety. The curriculum includes:

• Industrial hygiene technical cores
• Public health cores
• Electives offered within the UTHealth School of Public Health

Program Outcomes and Objectives

The program aims to prepare students to participate in a multi-disciplinary approach to planning, implementing, managing, and evaluating programs and services for worker health and safety.

Admission and Enrollment

Students should apply for the appropriate degree within the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences. The program is offered in various locations, including Public Health Region VI - Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, providing a wealth of opportunities for training in industrial settings, healthcare, petroleum and petrochemicals, agriculture, and public and private business and government sectors.

Program Details

• The program emphasizes a high level of faculty/student interaction.
• Students typically gain practical experience through summer internships.
• The program is a discipline within occupational health and safety (OHS), a professionally exciting and rewarding field of public health that includes all other aspects of public health, such as epidemiology, health promotion, management, global health and wellness, and other disciplines.
• Being an OHS practitioner helps to save lives of working people and promotes a grounded quality of life for their families and communities.