This is a professional after-degree program that prepares students to challenge the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors certification exam, pursue a related career in environmental health, or continue into academic graduate studies in the profession.   The program delivers the practical knowledge required of an environmental public health professional. Students undertake an intensive 60-credit program involving 12-months of academic study followed by a 3-month field experience or directed research project. Students undertake professional mentoring involving formal community placement. The class is focused around a cohort structure providing students with a supportive peer community during the course and afterwards into the career setting.  

Credit courses include:

Applied Environmental Health: 

• environmental health practice I & II (521, 522)
• health risk assessment I & II (511, 512)
• environmental and public health law (513)
• environmental management I & II (501, 502)

Professional Development: 

• ethical issues in environmental health (523)
• health promotion and environmental health education (533)
• public health administration and community development (543)
• information systems and research applications in health sciences (558)

Core Sciences: 

• communicable disease control (551)
• epidemiology (552)
• environmental microbiology (553)
• environmental chemistry (556)
• environmental toxicology (557)

Please see specific course descriptions here.