Graduate Certificate in Environment and Health
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About the course
Quick details
- Available 2021
- Perth (Crawley campus)
- Full-time
- Part-time
- Online
- Semester 1
- 92210
- This course is not available to international student visa holders
Top 3 reasons to study this course
- Develop a comprehensive skillset to tackle complex public health challenges.
- Be taught by top experts in the field.
- Learn to assess and communicate the environmental and occupational exposure impact on human health to a range of audiences.
What you'll learn...
- Describe and evaluate health and disease in population groups.
- Assess the impact of environmental and occupational exposures on human health.
- Outline the health impact from environmental disturbances both regionally and globally.
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Research Led Teaching
Research Led Teaching
Professor Jane Heyworth is an environmental epidemiologist with over thirty years’ experience in environmental health research, policy and practice. She is currently Deputy Head of the School of Population and Global Health and teaches into the Graduate Certificate in Environment and Health.
This is an excerpt from Professor Heyworth in e-book Cities for People and Nature, featuring UWA researchers from a variety of disciplines.
Noise pollution
We live in a noisy world. The constant buzz of traffic, construction and technology has become an unfortunate fact of city life. But chronic exposure to noise can be harmful. It has been linked to sleep disturbance, tinnitus, annoyance, cardiovascular disease and cognitive impairment1.
We have been developing traffic-noise maps for Perth, Sydney and Melbourne in partnership with the Australian Catholic University and the Centre for Air pollution, energy and health Research. These estimate daily exposure to noise using a model called the Common NOise aSSessment methOdS (CNOSSOS-EU) developed by the European Commission2.
This work also complements our broader research on air pollution. Noise and air pollution often go hand in hand and it can be difficult to disentangle the effects of each of these on health and wellbeing. Supporting strategies that reduce both pollutants will help us breathe and hear more easily.
- Professor Jane Heyworth
Read more at the e-book Cities for People and Nature.
1. Basner, M., Babisch, W., Davis, A., Brink, M., Clark, C., Janssen, S., & Stansfeld, S. (2014). Auditory and non-auditory effects of noise on health. Lancet, 383(9925), 1325–1332.
2. Kephalopoulos, S., Paviotti, M., AnfossoLédée F., Van Maercke, D., Shilton, S., & Jones, N. (2014). Advances in the development of common noise assessment methods in Europe: The CNOSSOS-EU framework for strategic environmental noise mapping. Science of The Total Environment, 482–483: 400–410.