Protecting the Public from Air Pollution
- Course Number
- CHL5921H
- Series
- 5900 (Occupational & Environmental Health)
- Format
- Lecture
- Course Instructor(s)
- Jeremy Alexander Scott, Bruce Urch
Course Description
Brief Overview: This course covers the principles of air pollution from the perspective of understanding the impacts on and protection of human health.
Detailed Overview: This course will focus on air pollution in the context of understanding and managing its impact on public health. Air pollution will be considered from the local to global scale. Specific principles to be covered include: sources and emissions of air pollutants, the physical and chemical characteristics of air pollution, methods used to monitor ambient air pollutant levels and understand actual individual and population exposure; the impacts of air pollution on human health; the practice of setting ambient air quality standards; and public health benefits through reduction in exposure. Lectures on selected topics will be given by the course coordinators and other experts representing academic, medical, government and industry.
Learning Objectives and Goals
- Recognize and implement basic principles relevant to the production, atmospheric behaviour and public health and environmental justice impacts of and responses to air pollution.
- From monitoring and exposure assessment to research and epidemiology including estimates of health burden and considering from local to global perspectives.
- Explain the theoretical and applied knowledge of air pollution monitoring and exposure modelling and the interpretation of these data to inform regulations.
- Put into perspective the role of risk and/or burden assessment in air pollution and policy development.
Methods of Assessment
| Presentations (2) | 25% |
| Written Assignments (3) | 40% |
| Final Exam | 25% |
| Participation | 10% |