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Environmental Health Department (ENHL) |
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The Department of Environmental Health (ENHL) provides training in environmental health within a broad basic sciences background. The department emphasizes evaluation and control of major environmental health problems in developing countries in such fields as water supply, waste disposal, food hygiene, occupational health, air pollution, and others.
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health
The ENHL offers a three-year program in environmental health and awards a Bachelor of Science. The curriculum provides a broad education in basic sciences and a fundamental knowledge of environmental health. Emphasis is placed upon the evaluation and control of major environmental health problems in developing countries in such fields as water supply, waste disposal, food hygiene, occupational health, air and marine pollution, and control of disease vectors. Students in this program are also required to take public health courses in the fields of epidemiology, biostatistics, health services administration, and public health education, which lead to a minor in public health.
Developing countries are in great need of qualified personnel capable of planning and implementing programs for the improvement of the human environment. This provides great opportunities for graduates of this program.
Graduates may occupy senior or intermediate posts in
- government agencies such as the Ministry of Health, Ministry of the Environment, municipalities, or health centers.
- the private sector, which offers a variety of job opportunities in industry, research institutions, universities, schools, and private business.
- international agencies.
Click here for a full description of the BS in Environmental Health
Master of Science in Environmental Sciences
The department also offers a graduate program leading to the MS degree in Environmental Sciences. For details regarding the MS degree, refer to the section on the Inter-Faculty Graduate Environmental Sciences Program in the graduate studies section at the end of the AUB catalogue.
In view of the increasing interest in development and its impact on the human environment, a variety of courses offered by this department are made available to students in other fields. Click here for a full description of the MS in Environmental Sciences.
Minor in Environmental Health
The Minor in Environmental Health will allow students to acquire knowledge about the components of the environmental system and the interactive processes that affect human health, environmental protection, and development. Click here for a full description of the Minor in Environmental Health. |
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Contact
Ms. Nouha Shammas
Department Secretary
AUB Main Numbers: 961 1 340 460, 350 000, 374 444, 374 374, ext. 4620/1
Mailing Address
Environmental Health Department
Faculty of Health Sciences
American University of Beirut
Van Dyck Building
PO Box 11-0236
Riad El-Solh Beirut, 1107 2020, Lebanon |
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