Degrees in Work Environment Policy

The Department of Work Environment offers Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Work Environment Policy. The Department also offers a related graduate certificate in Environmental Risk Assessment.

Faculty: Lenore Azaroff, Ken Geiser, Robert Karasek, Charles Levenstein, Rafael Moure-Eraso, Margaret Quinn, Eduardo Siqueira, Joel Tickner

The policy analyst must understand the interaction between science and scientific uncertainty in occupational and environmental health, and the politics of the workplace setting. The fields of occupational and environmental health are integrated by the practical focus on actual workplace conditions: policy is based on the science; engineering and political economy provide the solutions.

The Work Environment Policy concentration accepts students from a wide variety of backgrounds, including physicians and lawyers, as well as those with training in the social sciences who wish to be policy analysts in academia, government agencies and organizations concerned with affecting environmental health and worker safety and health.

Master's Degree in Work Environment Policy

All Policy students must take the Work Environment Core and 12 credits of Work Environment Policy concentration courses. The curriculum allows the student to choose 18 credits in electives.

Examples of areas of research encouraged for doctoral work are: international occupational and environmental health, integration of occupational and environmental health policies, economic impacts of occupational injury and illness, integration of materials policy and health policy, environmental justice and urban ecology, labor and technology, regulatory policy, occupational health and labor/management programs, alternative methods of risk assessment, health and safety impacts of new technologies, management of chemical information, toxics use reduction.

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