Oil floating on the River Irwell near the Manchester UK city center. (Photo courtesy of Matt Cox.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. James Sherley
Dr. Laura Green
Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
MIT Course Number
20.104J / 1.081J / ESD.053J
As Taught In
Spring 2005
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
- Selected lecture notes
- Projects and examples
- Assignments: problem sets with solutions
- Assignments: written with examples
- Exams and solutions
Course Description
This course addresses the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and human disease. Course topics include epidemiological approaches to understanding disease causation; biostatistical methods; evaluation of human exposure to chemicals, and their internal distribution, metabolism, reactions with cellular components, and biological effects; and qualitative and quantitative health risk assessment methods used in the U.S. as bases for regulatory decision-making. Throughout the term, students consider case studies of local and national interest.
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