Welcome to the EOH

For almost two decades, we have educated leaders in environmental health, occupational health and safety, environmental epidemiology, and global health. These leaders now serve in a diverse number of professional capacities including positions at the US public health service, federal government agencies such as NIOSH and EPA, private consulting firms, major hospitals, municipal health departments, chemical manufacturing companies, not for profit organizations, universities, and health foundations.

If you visit us, you will find our students not just at their computer or in the library but you will also find them working and supporting each other in the laboratory, in the field in St. Louis, at an internship in California or Washington, D.C or working abroad.

A major benefit to our students is the training they get in research and practice and by putting what they learn into action in various communities, including our community of St. Louis and those communities in the mountains of Peru and the tropical villages in the Dominican Republic.

To attain the skills necessary to become a leader in environmental and occupational health at SLU will require the EOH student to think critically and imaginatively about the complex and difficult decisions we must make everyday to protect human health. We admit “left-brain and right-brain students” to our programs and expect they will complement each other as we develop the knowledge to solve workplace and environmental problems here and around the world.