Industrial Hygiene Program

Research Facilities

The Industrial Hygiene Training Program is housed in the Institute for Rural and Environmental Health (IREH) at the University of Iowa Research Park (map). IREH is a nationally recognized research center in occupational and environmental health.

The facilities and research environment at IREH provide Industrial Hygiene trainees with access to excellent equipment and outstanding researchers.

• Offices and labs of students and faculty are located in IREH. This proximity enhances collaboration and interaction among the industrial hygiene faculty, staff, and students.
  

• Labs in IREH offer state-of-the-art research opportunities. A wide array of industrial hygiene equipment is available to students, including video-exposure monitoring equipment, direct-reading gas and particle monitoring equipment, sampling pumps, noise dosimeters, and supplies.
  

• The State Hygienic Laboratory is a short walk from IREH. Hygienic Lab staff help students perform chemical analysis of samples and serve as committee members.
  

• Information technology resources at the IREH are extensive and include a state-of-the-art computing network with full-time technical support staff.
  

• An Information Resource Center (IRC), located in 163 IREH, is staffed by an information specialist (Julia Venzke, MA in Library and Information Science, UI 1997). The IRC maintains a collection of major OEH-related journals and texts, as well as many of our student theses. Ms. Venzke also assists students and faculty with literature reviews, interlibrary loans, and database searches.