Staff Spotlight: Tiffony Burnes
Last fall, Tiffony Burnes joined the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. As an administrative assistant, she oversees travel processing, helps with student hiring, and provides scheduling and other support.
Career opportunities for ENHS exist in federal, state and local environmental regulatory agencies, national research laboratories, industries, environmental consulting companies and universities. Jobs in the field include research scientist, industrial hygienist, water quality specialist, health and safety officer, ecotoxicologist, molecular toxicologist, environmental microbiologist, community engagement and environmental justice scientist, nanomaterial scientist, air pollutions scientist, health physicist and professor.
ENHS examines the causes and effects of interactions between humans and their environment.
Our goal is to understand and minimize impacts on human health and the environment.
To explore these complex interactions, numerous elements of pure and applied sciences,
including biology, chemistry, geography, physics, engineering, public health and medicine,
are required. Two broad areas of emphasis are available to students entering the department’s
graduate programs: environmental health and human health.
ENHS holds at least 20 nationally competitive grants from a variety of our field's esteemed professional organizations. Our graduate students receive financial support from these grants via Graduate Research Assistantships. In addition, ENHS graduate students are routinely recipients of nationally competitive research fellowships.
Degrees Offered
We offer four advanced degrees in environmental health sciences. Find the degree option that works best for you then explore the application deadlines and requirements for each degree.
- Master of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences (MPH)
- Master of Science in Environmental Health Sciences (MS)
- Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences
- Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences (combination degree)
- Certificate of Graduate Study in Environmental Nanoscience and Risk
Environmental Health Sciences News
Katya Altman selected as Sea Grant John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow
In February, the Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences alumna began a one-year John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Sea Grant College Program.
Environmental health sciences welcomes soil scientist Andrea Jilling
Andrea Jilling has joined the Department of Environmental Health Sciences as an associate professor. Her research expertise focuses on how nutrients move through soil systems and the role this plays in climate regulation and agricultural productivity.
USC to lead wastewater surveillance for new statewide center aimed at improving outbreak preparedness
Environmental health sciences associate professor Sean Norman is one of the lead investigators on a multi-agency project to use disease modeling to improve outbreak preparedness in the state.
Tara Sabo-Attwood returns to USC as new dean for the Arnold School of Public Health
Donna Arnett, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, is pleased to announce the selection of a highly accomplished public health leader, Tara Sabo-Attwood, as the new dean beginning August 1.
Devin Bowes uses wastewater-based epidemiology to advance environmental justice, health equity
Bowes adopts an environmental justice and health equity lens. She was inspired to incorporate these perspectives into her work when conducting COVID-19 research as a graduate student.