N-EEH-MEM - Master of Environmental Management - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Health

The Program in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Health (EEH) emphasizes interactions among human/environmental health and ecological processes. The program is concerned with the fates, effects, and risks of pollutants to natural ecosystems and human users of those systems both within the United States and internationally. A multidisciplinary program, EEH incorporates the concepts, information bases, and methodologies of toxicology, environmental chemistry, risk assessment, and ecology. This program stresses risk assessment attendant to actions/processes that affect human/environmental health and provides a scientific approach to environmental management. By instilling in the student a science-based approach combining integrated assessment for humans, biota, and natural resources, EEH seeks to produce scientists and environmental managers with a solid foundation in the principles underlying pollutant fates and impacts on ecology and environmental health, as well as a firm grasp of state-of-the-art approaches for evaluating specific instances of environmental contamination and for making management decisions based upon quantitative analysis.

Prerequisites: calculus, statistics, and chemistry required; organic chemistry and ecology recommended.

For more detailed information about this program, including specific prerequisites and degree requirements, see nicholas.duke.edu/academics/masters-programs/master-environmental-management/ecotoxicology-environmental-health.