Health Effects Component
This program ended in June 2004.
The paramount concern about toxic substances in the environment is their potential effect on human health. The Health Effects Component is therefore dedicated to training graduate students to meet the challenge of assessing human exposure and health affects, estimating future health risks, identifying methods for reducing human exposure and confronting environmental policy issues surrounding their implementation. The program brings together environmental health scientists, toxicologists, environmental epidemiologists, biochemists, engineers and environmental policy researchers to confront key issues for environmental health in California.
Self Description
The U.C. Berkeley lead campus component of TSR&TP is called the Health Effects of Modern Technologies. This program emphasizes the examination of relationships among industrial and engineering design and the mitigation of environmental impacts and health risks associated with the production, use and disposal of products, byproducts and wastes. Our efforts are centered on prevention of human and ecosystem health impacts by linking the development of policies and technology innovations with the improved understanding of fate and transformation of toxic substances in the environment. A focus on modern technologies allows this program to build on existing strengths in exposure assessment, biomarkers, air pollution and pesticide issues but provides for a greater emphasis on water quality issues, broader definitions of toxic substances, and opportunities to explore the interactions among biological engineering materials, synthetic chemicals and human (and ecosystem) health. The U.C. Berkeley program retains its strong commitment to meet these challenges through the multidisciplinary training of graduate students from disciplines as diverse as engineering and social sciences. We offer an integrated program of graduate research, a shared curricular experience, and participation in seminars and workshops with researchers and professionals from throughout the U.C. system and California.
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Contact Info
For questions about this component of UC TSR&TP, please contact: ehs_div@berkeley.edu