Environmental Health and Engineering
We use fundamental science to protect the health of the environment and its inhabitants.
Environmental Health and Engineering Headlines
Preventing Airborne Spread of Covid-19 and Other Respiratory Diseases
Why it took so long to acknowledge that Covid-19 is airborne—and what we need to do now.
Justice on the Table
The sprawling U.S. industrial food system creates big challenges that demand creative solutions.
Beauty’s Byproducts
Dyes, relaxers, and conditioners give salon clients the styles they want—and leave salon workers with a potentially dangerous chemical burden.
What We Do in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering
Our unique cross-divisional department combines the strengths of the Whiting School of Engineering and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Our graduates are prepared to be successful public health and engineering professionals in private and governmental organizations and attend the best graduate and PhD programs.
Environmental Health and Engineering Programs
We offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in environmental engineering, as well as a range of master's and doctoral degrees in public health.
Undergraduate Programs
Our Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering prepares students to succeed in the private sector, governmental organizations, and top-tier graduate programs.
Graduate Programs
We offer a range of interdisciplinary graduate programs at the intersection of public health and engineering.
Non-Degree Programs
Our department offers certificates and other programs to foster professional growth.
Yinka Bode-George, MHS '17
"...my most crucial gain from this graduate experience was the opportunity to construct a public health lens framed around undoing drivers of environmental health inequities."
Junyao Gu, MS-GEE ’19
"I really love interdisciplinary research, so knowing students can benefit from both the Whiting School of Engineering and the Bloomberg School of Public Health made me so excited to attend."
Kirsten Koehler, PhD
Kirsten Koehler's goals are to improve exposure assessment methods to inform occupational and public health policy. Her research goals involve the use of direct-reading instrumentation to improve spatiotemporal exposure assessment. Direct-reading (i.e. “real-time”) monitors can rapidly assess exposures to various hazards.
Centers and Institutes in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering
The Department of Environmental Health and Engineering houses six diverse Centers.
Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF)
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Johns Hopkins Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health
The Johns Hopkins University Water Center
The Johns Hopkins P.O.E. Total Worker Health® Center (POE Center)
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