Overview
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The Environmental and Occupational Health program at the University of Pittsburgh combines training in classical toxicological and environmental biophysics with the new and continually developing fields of cellular and molecular pathobiology of environmental disease.
Training is geared toward an understanding of how relevant environmental exposures, laboratory based model systems, and gene-environment responses can be interpreted and applied to the study of disease etiology in exposed and potentially exposed human populations.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Principles of Environmental Exposures
- Risk Science
- Environmental Health Chemistry
- Principles of Toxicology
- Applied Regression Analysis
- Transport & Fate of Environmental Agents
- Chemical Toxicology in the Age of Green Chemistry
- Occupational Hygiene
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 60 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Disciplines
Environmental Economics & Policy Occupational Health and Safety View 20 other PhDs in Occupational Health and Safety in United StatesAcademic requirements
English requirements
Student insurance
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- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
Acceptable undergraduate training for the PhD includes:
- a bachelor’s degree in the physical, chemical, or biological sciences with at least a 3.0 grade-point average overall and in the basic sciences;
- previous courses in organic chemistry, biology, physics, and calculus would be useful; and
- the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is optional.
Tuition Fee
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International
51400 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 51400 USD per year during 60 months. -
National
51400 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 51400 USD per year during 60 months. -
In-State
30290 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 30290 USD per year during 60 months.
Living costs for Pittsburgh
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Scholarships Information
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