Founding Goals

The Graduate Institute of Environmental Health, established in 1989 with master education programs, aims to promote research in environmental and occupational health and to educate well-trained students to work with health issues associated with environmental and occupational exposures. The doctoral program was established in 2007.

This graduate degree program stresses fundamental training in environmental and occupational health and requires students to integrate theory and practice, so that graduate students can use laboratory and qualitative/quantitative knowledge and skills to recognize biological and toxicological threats in environments and seek to solve the harmful effects. This institute has developed further in recent years to cover molecular studies, epidemiology/biostatics education, and social behavior disciplines.

The 2-year master program requires students to complete 30-credit courses in addition to writing a thesis. Discussion on specific issues is a compulsory course. Elective courses include biostatistics, epidemiology, instrument analysis, environments monitoring at workplace, specific topic of public health, molecular cell biology, environmental toxicology, seminar on environmental health, environmental health and science, biological monitoring, practice of health policy, occupational and environmental medicine, data processing, preparation of thesis and grant proposal. In addition to compulsory and elective subjects, emphasis is also placed on the thesis. Under advisors' supervision, students are expected to identify a research topic, to design the study, to select appropriate samples, to collect data, and to perform data analysis incorporated with pertinent interpretation of the results.The doctoral program requires students to devote advanced studies in various health related discipline. Students are expected to complete at least 26 credit courses and a 12-credit dissertation in 3 years or longer up to 8 years

Faculty

All our 20 full-time and adjunct faculty members with doctoral degrees from prestigious universities encompass expertise in various public health and environmental health disciplines.

Career Opportunities

After graduation, students can work with health, environmental and occupational health related government agencies by completing public service examinations. Students may also engage in a variety of careers at private sectors in public health, particularly in environmental and occupational health.

Future Prospects

Near 300 master program students have completed master programs at the Institute of Environmental Health in the last 18 years. We have developed a further program leading to the doctoral degree. This program will offer students in depth study in a selected area of environmental and occupational health and various public health disciplines. The aim is to train students to assume leaderships in academia, government, and/or industry.