Environment and Health (Collaborative Program)
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Arts and Science
Participating Degree Programs
Geography – MA, MSc, PhD
Medical Science – MSc, PhD
Planning – MScPl, PhD
Public Health Sciences – MHSc, MSc, PhD
Women and Gender Studies – MA
The graduate degree programs listed above participate in the Environment and Health (EH) Collaborative Program. The health implications of human impacts on the environment cover a very broad range of issues including air and water quality, contaminated land, and shifts in the distribution of vector-borne diseases (related to changes in land use, climate, and human migration). The EH collaborative program provides students in the health sciences with a broad environmental perspective while at the same time exposes environmental studies students to the health implications of environmental quality. This program may also be of interest to students who are concerned with sociological and policy approaches to the field of environment and health.
Students who complete the collaborative program receive the following notation on their transcripts: “Completed the Collaborative Program in Environment and Health”.
Contact and Address
Web: www.environment.utoronto.ca/Graduate/Programs/EnvironmentHealthCollaborativeProgram.aspx
E-mail: centre.environment@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-3475
Fax: (416) 978-3884
Centre for Environment
University of Toronto
Earth Sciences Centre
Room 1016V, 33 Willcocks Street
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E8
Canada
Degree Programs
Master’s Level and Doctoral Level
Admission Requirements
- Students who wish to enrol in the EH Collaborative Program offered by the Centre for Environment must first apply to and be accepted into a master’s or doctoral program in a degree granting unit, also called a “home department.” Information about applying to a home department can be found at the School of Graduate Studies Web site: www.sgs.utoronto.ca.
- Prospective students who are planning to enrol in the EH Collaborative Program are strongly encouraged to submit copies of the documents indicated on the Centre’s Web site by the application deadline established by the home department. Please contact the home department to which you intend to apply in order to confirm its application deadline. The Centre for Environment also allows potential students to enrol in its EH Collaborative Program beyond the deadline set by their home department.
Program Requirements
- Students must complete the requirements below in addition to the degree requirements of their home departments. Typically, students complete up to 1.0 full-course equivalent (FCE) and conduct research on an environmental topic. Specific collaborative program requirements for each participating degree program are listed on the Centre’s Web site under the Environment and Health Collaborative Program.
Master’s Degrees
- Complete the core course ENV 4001H (0.5 FCE).
- Complete one elective half-course (0.5 FCE) from the list of approved electives below.
- For degree programs that require a thesis or research project, the topic should be within the field of environment and health, as approved by the home department and the collaborative program committee. A copy of the final thesis or project must be submitted to the Centre for Environment.
PhD Degrees
- Complete the core course EN V4001H (0.5 FCE), unless already completed at the master’s level.
- Complete one elective half-course (0.5 FCE) from the list of approved electives below.
- Present a seminar either in the Environment and Health Seminar Series or at the Centre for Environment’s research day.
- Complete a thesis on a theme in environment and health. The thesis committee membership will include a supervisor (from the student’s home department who is a member of the core faculty of the collaborative program and a member of the graduate faculty in the Centre for Environment) and at least one other member from a collaborating unit. A copy of the final thesis must be submitted to the Centre for Environment.
Course List
The Centre for Environment offers individual credit courses that are open to graduate students from all parts of the university, subject to enrolment limits. With the exception of the core course, not all courses are offered every year. Graduate students enrolled in the Environment and Health Collaborative Program are also allowed to take elective courses listed under Environmental Studies Collaborative Program toward completing their Environment and Health Collaborative Program requirements (these are listed under Environmental Studies Collaborative Program in this Calendar).
Core Course
ENV 4001H Graduate Seminar in Environment and Health
Elective Courses
CHL 5416H Environmental Epidemiology
CHL 5903H Environmental Health
CHL 5916H Environmental Health Policy
ENV 1703H Water Resources Management and Policy
ENV 1704H Environmental Risk Analysis and Management
ENV 3000H Special Topics—Environmental and Health
ENV 4002H Environment and Health of Vulnerable Populations
GGR 1504H Health, Place and Difference
JGE 1212H Fate of Contaminants in the Environment
JNC 2503H Environmental Pathways
JNP 1014Y Interdisciplinary Toxicology
JNP 1016H Graduate Seminar in Toxicology
JPG 1421H Health in Urban Environments
TPS 1837H Environmental Health, Transformative Higher Education and Policy Changes
Program Committee
Cunningham, Hilary - BA, MA, PhD - Anthropology, Environment
Stefanovic, Ingrid - BA, MA, PhD - Environment (Director)
Wiseman, Clare - BS, MSc, PhD - Environment
Daniere, Amrita - AB, MPP, PhD, MCIP - Geography
Maclaren, Virginia - BA, MRP, MSc, PhD, MCIP - Geography
Rotstein, Ori - MSc, MD, FRCS - Medical Science
Rankin, Katharine - BA, MRP, PhD - Planning
Mandel, Jack - PhD, MPH – Public Health Sciences
McElhinny, Bonnie - BA, MA, PhD – Women & Gender Studies
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