Teaching

Graduate Education and Courses

I regularly teach Environmental Health Sciences for both graduate students and undergraduate students. These courses are designed to help students understand how our environment affects human health and what can be done to improve it. The courses examine health problems linked to chemical, physical, and biological agents, including air and water quality, food safety, waste, radiation, noise, and light. They also addresses climate change and sustainability, environmental justice, children's health, gene-environment interactions, and exposure and risk assessment methods. Students will learn about the regulatory framework governing environmental health, approaches to hazard prevention and control, and mechanisms of toxicity.

I also mentor a number of research staff, PhD students, MS or MPH students, and undergraduate students. More about my research team can be found here: Our Team.

PUBHLTH 163: Introduction to Environmental Health Science (4 units) — Undergraduate-Level Course

Focuses on processes of exposure to environmental toxins/agents and their impact to human health and the environment. Media transport, exposure assessment, susceptibility, behavior, and health effect of several toxins are discussed.

PUBHLTH 260: Human Exposure Modeling (4 units)

Explores the basic principles and methods in estimating human exposure to environmental pollutants. Topics include source emissions, spatial/temporal aspects of human exposures, air pollution exposure modeling, time-activity patterns, micro-environmental exposure assessment, the uncertainty/variability analysis.

PUBHLTH 264: Introduction to Environmental Health Science (4 units) — Graduate-Level Course

Convergence of agents (chemical, physical, biological, or psychosocial) in environment can emerge as diseases influenced by social, political, and economic factors, allowing them to become rooted in society. How these agents from various spheres come together and impact human health.