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Environmental and Ecological Health
Environmental health is a broad and increasingly important field with wide ranging applications in the environmental science and public health fields. The field encompasses environmental factors and ecosystem functions that affect human health and the effects of human activities on the ecosystem products and services we depend on. Example topics within the field include:
- ecological risk analysis,
- environmental toxicology,
- environmental impact assessment,
- chemical fate and transport,
- human health risk assessment,
- industrial hygiene,
- air quality,
- environmental microbiology,
- food safety and security,
- biodiversity and human health,
- children’s environmental health.
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Last updated: 06/16/2009
Dr. Leisnham has recently collaborated with New Zealand researchers to explore some of the physical and biological links between land use and invasive mosquitoes down under and around the world. Read more >>