ENVR 080:  Environmental Health Issues                               Instructor:  Dr. L.M. Ball

          Call No.  84436       Section 001          Tuesday-Thursday, 9:30-10:45 AM          Room 1001 HRC

Description:  This course examines key events that have shaped our understanding of the impacts of environmental agents on human health, and uses them to introduce basic concepts in environmental health.


Textbook:  TBA


5 Grading Opportunities, all equally weighed:
                                   3 In-class Tests
                                   1 Presentation
                                   1 Final Examination


Syllabus:

Date
Topic
Reference Material
 Tues Aug 30  Introduction  www.neha.org ;  www.niehs.nih.gov
 www.epa.gov ; www.fda.gov
 Thurs Sept 01  Contemporary Health Issues  Current News Sources
 Tues Sept 06  The Great Plagues of the Past  
 Thurs Sept 08  Independent Research on Cholera  
 Tues Sept 13  John Snow; the Beginnings of Public Health  http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html
 http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/broadstreetpump.html
 Thurs Sept 15  Cholera Today  Sack et al., 2004;  Lipp et al., 2002
 Tues Sept 20  Lead  Needleman, 2000
 Thurs Sept 22  Lead Today/Other Metals  http://www.env.go.jp/en/topic/minamata2002/
 Tues Sept 27  In-class Test  
 Thurs Sept 29  Air Pollution   www.epa.gov
 www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/Rachel_Carson/donora.htm
 Scientific Literature: Hexter and Goldsmith, 1971; Lave and Seskin, 1970;
 Goldsmith and Breslow, 1959; Amdur, et al., 1952
 Tues Oct 04
 Thurs Oct 06
 Tues Oct 11  Occupational Diseases  www.cdc.gov/niosh/ ;  www.chicagotribute.org/Markers/HullHouse.htm ;
 www.chemheritage.org/EducationalServices/chemach/hnec/ah.html ;
 Akpinar-Elsi et al., 2005
 Thurs Oct 13
 Tues Oct 18  In-class Test  
 Thurs Oct 20  Fall Break  
 Tues Oct 25  

Industrial accidents:

Seveso, Times Beach, Bhopal, Chernobyl		  

http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu21le/uu21le09.htm

http://www.bhopal.com/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/bhopal/default.stm

http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/chernobyl.html

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm
 Thurs Oct 27 Food safety
 http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html
Powerpoint
 Tues Nov 01  Artificial sweeteners  Powerpoint

http://www.saccharin.org/

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/artificial-sweeteners
 Thurs Nov 03  Nutraceuticals, natural products  Powerpoint

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/supplmnt.html
 Tues Nov 08  PCBs  

http://www.wastenotnc.org/WarrenCo_Fact_Sheet.htm

http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/warren%20county%20rdb.htm
 Thurs Nov 10  Love Canal  

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/lovecanal/

http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/lcanal/lctimbmb.htm

http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/lovecanal/

http://www.cnn.com/US/9808/07/love.canal/
 Tues Nov 15  Superfund sites  

http://www.epa.gov/superfund/

http://www.nj.gov/dep/srp/superfund/

http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/land/
 Thurs Nov 17  In-class test  Covering Oct 11 to Nov 15
 Tues Nov 22 Bird Flu *
  
Ashley Hiser (threat)
Mary Olive Jones (not a threat)
 Thurs Nov 24  Thanksgiving Break  
 Tues Nov 29  Molds *  

Bonny Blackard (threat)

Lauren Dunbar (not a threat)
 Thurs Dec 01  Chemical waste, solid waste, landfills, leaching*  

Kirstin Hunt (threat)

Erin Strauss (not a threat )

Cara Sipprelle  Threat
 Tues Dec 06  Genetically-modified organisms *  

Stephanie Grant (not a threat)

Monica Foley (threat)
 Thurs Dec 08  Allergies – asthma – autism *  

Kandyss Whitehead (threat)

Bill Huang (not a threat)
 Tues Dec 13  8:00 AM  Final Examination