Industrial Hygiene PhD Program
Degree Description and Learner Objectives
The industrial hygiene PhD training program is a distinct track
within the College of Public Health. The overall goal of the program
is to contribute to occupational disease prevention and injury prevention
in industrial, environmental and agricultural sectors of Iowa, the
region, and nationally.
The goals of the program are:
- To train industrial hygiene professionals needed regionally and nationally for careers in industrial, environmental, and agricultural settings and in research at the PhD level.
- To provide opportunities for supervised research and field experiences for industrial hygienists in training.
- To provide this training with an interdisciplinary approach that prepares industrial hygienists to practice as members of an occupational/environmental health team.
The PhD program trains individuals to conduct and supervise research or to manage advanced applied programs in academic, governmental, or private IH settings. The IH program strives to maintain a balance between its historical emphasis on a small number of individually trained students and the required breadth of the interdisciplinary training implicit in the profession.
Graduates of the PhD in Industrial Hygiene will be able to:
- Recognize the principle sources of occupational agents and understand and describe routes of human exposure to these agents and the work processes that influence exposures.
- Understand the principles, instrumentation, and techniques for exposure assessment of chemical, physical, and biological agents in the workplace and environment.
- Evaluate and develop strategies and engineering solutions for controlling exposure to chemical, physical, and biological agents in the workplace and environment.
- Describe the organization and functions of governmental agencies and regulatory bodies impacting occupational health.
- Understand fundamental principles of allied fields such as occupational medicine, safety, ergonomics, and occupational nursing and be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team to prevent and/or solve occupational and environmental health problems.
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