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The Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences at the University of Cincinnati is committed to studying how environmental factors negatively impact human health, how to recognize and prevent these effects, and how to improve public health through clinical care and health care policy.
The department is part of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Medicine and is home to a dynamic, collaborative, and highly interactive faculty conducting bleeding-edge research and training the next generation of leaders in environmental science, occupational medicine, and public health.
The department offers a variety of graduate programs, and a clinical fellowship, and is the home of pre-and post-doctoral training programs funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
Our interdisciplinary programs include approximately xx faculty and subject matter experts from multiple colleges at the University of Cincinnati, governmental agencies, including NIOSH, the Environmental Protection Agency, and multiple health departments in the region.
The impact of our research, education, and clinical programs is leading the way to effectively improve the health of our communities.
05/20/2020
Article includes comments from Kim Dietrich, PhD, UC Department of Environmental Health
With half a million young children nationwide known to have blood-lead levels as high as those recorded during the ongoing crisis in Flint, MI, neurologists are being urged to consider and, when appropriate, test for the toxic metal in the process of reaching a differential diagnosis. Flint has been in the news after the city switched its water source from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, which supplied treated water from Lake Huron to the Flint River, beginning in April of 2014. The more corrosive river water, which was not treated to lower its pH (acidity), leached lead from the city's aging pipes.
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