Chemicals and Health

• Week 1 - Week 1: Welcome & Introduction
  Start off this week with the peer assessment (we know, we know. . .how can we have an assessment before the course even starts, right?). We simply hope to gauge your initial understanding of the topics that we’ll cover (so grade easy). Then we get into a qui...
• Week 2 - Week 2 - Toxicology: What do chemicals do in our bodies?
  Now that you have a sense of what a chemical is, and how we are exposed to them, we dive into the science of how chemicals impact our health, starting with toxicology. But before you dive into the study of poisons, please review, evaluate, and grade at least f...
• Week 3 - Week 3 - Biomonitoring: How do we measure these chemicals in our bodies and why?
  Start by watching a two-minute video and a five-minute news report. Post your reactions not only to the video and audio files, but also to your peers’ thoughts! Next you’ll hear from a CDC scientist about the US’ National Biomonitoring Program, then you’ll h...
• Week 4 - Week 4 - Health effects of chemicals: How do we figure out how chemicals affect our health?
  Finally we get to one of the main questions presented in this course - how do scientists assess the impact of chemicals on our health? You’ll hear from a physician who specializes in environmental & occupational medicine and epidemiology. Then you’ll hear how ...
• Week 5 - Week 5 - Chemicals Policy: What do we do about chemicals & health?
  So far we’ve covered: how chemicals get into our bodies and how we measure them, what our bodies do with them and what they do to our bodies, and how that ultimately impacts our health. Now we turn to policy and how society addresses the impact of chemicals on...
• Week 6 - Week 6: Case Studies
  At this point you may be wondering: so how do all these pieces fit together? From chemicals in our natural world to production on a large scale, through exposure to health effects and policy . . . this module provides real world examples of how the general pub...

Dr. Megan Weil Latshaw, PhD
Co-Director of the Masters Programs in Environmental Health
Bloomberg School of Public Health

Beth A. Resnick, MPH
Associate Scientist
Health Policy and Management