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CIV_ENV 361-2: Public and Environmental Health

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Prerequisites

CIV_ENR 361-1 or consent of instructor

Description

This course explores current problems in public and environmental health, such as the worldwide burden of major infections diseases; the emergence and re-emergence of new pathogens, epidemiology, prevention, diagnostics and treatment of major diseases, environmental reservoirs of infectious organisms, transport of microorganisms in the environment, and evaluation of the combined effects of land use modification, water abstraction, and global climate change on ecosystems.

Textbook

Brock Biology of Microorganisms, Madigan, Bender, Buckley, Sattley and Stahl, 16th ed 2021 (or 15th ed, 2018) Pearson Benjamin Cummings, San Francisco

Class Time:

3 hr/wk

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