Instructors: Nicholas Warren & Lawrence Silbart
Course Description and/or Objectives (from syllabus): Exposure pathways, risk analysis techniques and prevention strategies relevant to both occupational and environmental settings. Lectures reinforced by discussion of case studies presented by students.
Learning Objectives
1. Demonstrate a working knowledge of exposure sources and pathways relevant to occupational and environmental settings.
2. Understand and apply an integrated knowledge of multi-level influences on presence of occupational and environmental exposures.
3. Be able to practically assess presence, intensity, and duration of risk factors, using multiple methods of varying detail and resource commitment.
4. Propose practical intervention techniques to reduce presence of exposures in occupational and environmental settings.
5. Use biostatistical methods to estimate risk and causal association between exposures and selected outcomes.
Organizing Themes:
1. Concepts of exposure, dose, capacity, and body burden in relation to physical and psychosocial exposures and outcomes of chronic disease.
2. Central role of psychosocial stressors as exposures and in modifying and mediating the path from other stressors to chronic disease
3. Central role of work organization as an upstream determinant of multiple, job-level exposures, physical and psychosocial
4. Risk shifting inherent in control of occupational and environmental exposures, both between these two domains, and among categories of risk
5. Biomarkers as exposure indicators at different functional levels
6. Multiple exposures, additive and multiplicative relationships
