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The Department offers several specialized degree programs in the Environmental Health Sciences. The MPH/DrPH program provides opportunities for students interested in environmental health to become familiar with these relevant scientific concepts as they apply to public health practice. The program will also be an opportunity for working health professionals to achieve an in-depth environmental perspective as well as a degree in Public Health. The degree may be either an MPH in Environmental Health or an MPH in Risk Assessment depending on the choice of electives and desire of the student. The M.S./Ph.D. program in Molecular Toxicology provides theoretical and practical education for individuals who desire positions in academic, industrial or government laboratories as teachers and/or researchers in the cellular and molecular basis for the adverse effects of environmental agents on biological systems. The Ph.D. program is designed as an integrated modern curriculum combining the classical toxicological disciplines traditional to the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health with the new and continually developing techniques of cellular and molecular biology. It emphasizes a strong underpinning in basic principles of cellular and molecular biology, and application of these basic principles towards the understanding mechanisms of toxicity mediated by environmental agents. The program provides an understanding of how laboratory based model systems can be interpreted and applied to the study of exposed and potentially exposed human populations.