Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• ESD.053J (Spring 2005) 
• Course Title:
• Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health (BE.104J) 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Biological Engineering 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. James Sherley
  Dr. Laura Green
  Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
   
• Course Introduction:
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  20.104J / 1.081J / ESD.053J Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health (BE.104J)
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2005

  
  
  

  
  
  

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  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.