University of California - Los Angeles - Environmental Health Sciences Program

With 5 different degree program options available - EH&S explores the links between health and the environment in order to prevent harmful exposure while promoting a healthier built environment. Environmental Health Sciences explores the links between health and the environment in order to prevent harmful exposure while promoting a healthier built environment. The field of environmental health grew out of a need to protect workers from very high exposures to chemical and physical hazards in industrial settings. The methods developed for the work place are now used to measure the exposure of ordinary citizens to environmental agents as they move through the many microenvironments of everyday life.