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Environmental Health (EH) Competencies: What the MPH Graduate should be able to do

Environmental Health (EH) Competencies: What the MPH Graduate should be able to do. Mark Robson Chair, EH Workgroup. Environmental Health Workgroup Members. Environmental Health Workgroup Members. Eight Consensus EH Competencies:.

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Environmental Health (EH) Competencies: What the MPH Graduate should be able to do

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  1. Environmental Health (EH) Competencies:What the MPH Graduate should be able to do Mark Robson Chair, EH Workgroup

  2. Environmental Health Workgroup Members

  3. Environmental Health Workgroup Members

  4. Eight ConsensusEH Competencies: • Specify approaches for assessing, preventing, and controlling environmental hazards (chemical, biological and physical) that pose risks to human health and safety.

  5. When a pregnant woman takes thalidomide 34-50 days (4.5 to 7 weeks) after the beginning of her last menstrual period, there is a risk of approximately 20% or greater to have a baby with problems such as extremely short or missing arms and legs (phocomelia), missing ears (both outside and inside), and deafness

  6. 2. Explain the general mechanisms of toxicity, and the roles that dose-response and time-response play in eliciting a toxic response to various environmental exposures (physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial).

  7. 3. Describe current environmental risk assessment methods, including the types of evidence utilized, limitations, and the sources of uncertainty and variability.

  8. 4. Describe genetic, physiologic, and psychosocial factors that may result in certain individuals or populations being more susceptible to adverse health outcomes following exposure to environmental hazards.

  9. 5. Explain various risk management (regulatory, engineering, and behavioral intervention options) and risk communication approaches in relation to issues of environmental justice/equity.

  10. Renewable Energy Sources Geothermal Biomass Hydropower Solar thermal / Photovoltaic Wind

  11. 6. Describe the direct and indirect human, ecological, and safety effects of major environmental and occupational agents, including global climate and environmental changes.

  12. HYPOSPADIAS The cause of hypospadias in humans has not been established Experiments with laboratory animals reveal that hypospadias can be repeatedly and reliable produced by exposure to several endocrine disrupting chemicals, including DDE and vinclozilin, a commonly used fungicide.

  13. 7. Develop a testable model of environmental injury that relies on hypothesis generation, data collection, data analysis, and interpretation of data for research or program development.

  14. 8. Describe federal and state regulatory programs, guidelines, and authorities that control environmental health issues

  15. Special Challenges for EH • Defining Environmental Health • Started with Course Syllabi and Learning Objectives • Used Common Definitions from several sources • What to do with INJURY?

  16. Responses to the Challenges • Developed a starter set based on the major learning objectives in each of the workgroup members’ basic courses (n=71) • Three rounds Delphi • Three Conference calls

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