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Doctoral

Environmental Health, PhD

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health 160 courses

About This Program

The Environmental Sustainability, Resilience and Health (ESRH) track aims to cultivate innovative public health scientists and engineers who address urgent challenges at the intersection of climate, sustainability, resilience, and equity. Students in the track will research anthropogenic drivers and other factors that exacerbate ecological crises and interventions aimed at adapting to threats and minimizing the diverse impacts on human well-being with an emphasis on equity. Additionally, students focus on how global environmental changes affect human societies, infrastructure, and ecosystems, as well as strategies for adapting to evolving public health threats. The track in Exposure Sciences and Environmental Epidemiology offers research and training opportunities in key topic areas relevant to environmental and occupational health. These areas include air, water, the food system, early life exposures, metals and synthetic chemicals, environmental microbiology, the built environment, global environmental health, molecular and integrated epidemiology, and the investigation of susceptibility factors, occupational health, and effective interventions. *The Health Security track is not able to accept PhD applications for matriculation in 2026. DrPH applications, including for Health Security, remain open.

Degree Requirements

CORE CURRICULUM

ALL YEARS & TERMS

Code Course Title Credits
PH.180.860 EHE Student Seminar & Grand Rounds 1
PH.180.840 EHE Doctoral Special Studies and Research 1-22

At least 9 credits in chosen topic area: The following courses are illustrative.

Built Environment topic area focus: Recommended courses

Code Course Title Credits
PH.305.630 Transportation Policy and Health 2
PH.318.636 Urban Policy 3
PH.180.655 Baltimore Food Systems: A Case Study of Urban Food Environments 4
EN.575.734 Smart Growth Strategies for Sustainable Cities 3

At least 9 credits in chosen topic area: The following courses are illustrative.

Energy topic area focus: Recommended courses

Code Course Title Credits
PH.180.651 Energy, Environment, and Public Health 2
EN.570.657 Air Pollution 3

ESRH Methods

At least 12 credits in chosen methods area. The following courses are illustrative. Biostatistics and Epidemiology methods area focus: Recommended courses

Code Course Title Credits
PH.180.625 Community-Driven Epidemiology and Environmental Justice 3
PH.340.696 Spatial Analysis I: ArcGIS 4
PH.140.698 Spatial Analysis III: Spatial Statistics 4
PH.140.655 Analysis of Multilevel and Longitudinal Data 4
PH.140.656 Multilevel and Longitudinal Models - Data Analysis Workshop 4
PH.140.664 Causal Inference in Medicine and Public Health I 4
PH.140.665 Causal Inference in Medicine and Public Health II 3
PH.140.630 Introduction to Data Management 3
PH.340.680 Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology 4
EN.570.616 Data Analytics in Environmental Health and Engineering 3
EN.601.677 Causal Inference 3
EN.553.636 Introduction to Data Science 3
EN.553.740 Machine Learning I 3

ESRH Methods

At least 12 credits in chosen methods area. The following courses are illustrative. Implementation Science and Program Evaluation methods area focus: Recommended courses

Code Course Title Credits
PH.550.601 Implementation Research and Practice 3
PH.330.650 Methods in Implementation Science 3
PH.340.726 Implementation Research Methods to Address Real World Epidemiological Questions 3
PH.380.611 Fundamentals of Program Evaluation 4
PH.221.645 Large-scale Effectiveness Evaluations of Health Programs 4
PH.300.713 Research and Evaluation Methods for Health Policy 3
PH.223.632 Methods for Planning and Implementing Evaluations of Large-Scale Health Programs in Low and Middle income Countries 4
PH.380.612 Applications in Program Monitoring and Evaluation 4
PH.313.601 Economic Evaluation I 3
PH.313.602 Economic Evaluation II 3
PH.313.603 Economic Evaluation III 3
PH.313.604 Economic Evaluation IV 3

ESRH Methods

At least 12 credits in chosen methods area. The following courses are illustrative. Qualitative Research methods area focus: Recommended courses

Code Course Title Credits
PH.224.690 Qualitative Research Theory and Methods 3
PH.224.691 Qualitative Data Analysis 3
PH.224.697 Qualitative Research Practicum I: Partnerships and Protocol Development 2
PH.224.698 Qualitative Research Practicum II: Collecting Qualitative Data 2
PH.224.699 Qualitative Research Practicum III: Analyzing and Writing Qualitative Findings 2
PH.410.690 Ethnographic Fieldwork 3
PH.410.631 Introduction to Community-Based Participatory Research: Principles and Methods 3
PH.410.615 Research Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences 3
PH.410.710 Concepts in Qualitative Research for Social and Behavioral Sciences 3
PH.410.712 Theory and Practice in Qualitative Data Analysis and Interpretation for The Social and Behavioral Sciences 3

ESRH Methods

At least 12 credits in chosen methods area. The following courses are illustrative. Geography methods area focus: Recommended courses

Code Course Title Credits
PH.601.731 Spatial Analysis for Public Health 4
PH.601.732 Spatial Data Technologies for Mapping 4
PH.601.733 Applied Spatial Statistics 4
PH.601.734 Spatial Applications 4
PH.601.805 Spatial Analysis Journal Club 2
PH.601.734 Spatial Applications 4

Required Courses

Epidemiology:

Code Course Title Credits
PH.340.751 Epidemiologic Methods 1 5
PH.340.752 Epidemiologic Methods 2 5
PH.340.753 Epidemiologic Methods 3 5

Health Security

Epidemiology

Code Course Title Credits
PH.340.751 Epidemiologic Methods 1 5
PH.340.752 Epidemiologic Methods 2 5
PH.340.753 Epidemiologic Methods 3 5

Health Security

Core Courses

Code Course Title Credits
PH.180.623 Infectious Disease Threats to Global Health Security 3
PH.180.624 Biotechnology and Health Security 3
PH.180.627 Lessons Learned in 1918 Pandemic Flu 1
PH.180.630 Chemical and Biological Weapons Threats: Science, Public Health, Policy 4
PH.180.633 The Sociocultural Dimensions of Disasters 3
PH.180.634 Public Health Emergencies: Risk Communication and Decision Science 3
PH.180.670 Introduction to Public Health Emergency Preparedness 3
PH.185.600 One Health Tools to Promote and Evaluate Healthy and Sustainable Communities 3
PH.185.803 Health Security Journal Club 1
PH.187.610 Public Health Toxicology 4
PH.120.603 Molecular Biology of Pandemic Influenza 3
PH.260.631 Immunology, Infection and Disease 3
PH.300.650 Crisis and Response in Public Health Policy and Practice 3
PH.317.600 Introduction to the Risk Sciences and Public Policy 4
PH.550.600 Living Science Ethics - Responsible Conduct of Research 1
PH.552.601 Foundational Principles of Public Health 0.5
PH.140.644 Statistical Machine Learning: Methods, Theory, and Applications 4
PH.260.603 Biology of the Next Pandemic 3

Toxicology, Physiology and Molecular Mechanisms

Core Courses

Code Course Title Credits
PH.183.631 Fundamentals of Human Physiology 4
PH.187.610 Public Health Toxicology 4
PH.317.600 Introduction to the Risk Sciences and Public Policy 4
PH.187.632 Molecular Toxicology 4
PH.187.633 Introduction to Environmental Genomics and Epigenomics 3
PH.187.634 Analysis for Environmental Genomics and Epigenomics 1
PH.260.611 Principles of Immunology I 4
PH.260.612 Principles of Immunology II 3
PH.140.615 Statistics for Laboratory Scientists I 4
PH.140.616 Statistics for Laboratory Scientists II 4
PH.185.805 Toxicology, Physiology & Molecular Mechanisms Journal Club & Seminar 1
PH.188.861 Advanced Topics in Toxicology and Physiology 1
PH.185.806 Advanced Concepts in Toxicology, Physiology & Molecular Mechanisms 2

Toxicology, Physiology and Molecular Mechanisms

School of Medicine:

Code Course Title Credits
ME.260.709 Molecular Biology and Genomics 3
ME.360.728 Pathways and Regulation 3
ME.110.728 Cell Structure and Dynamics 3

Teaching Assistant Requirement

Students must register in each term or semester in which they complete their required TAship.

Code Course Title Credits
PH.180.613 Teaching Environmental Health 1

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