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Environmental, occupational and public health courses

Take your place as an environmental, occupational and public health professional

Explore how the places where we work and live affect our heath - as individuals and as a society.

Environmental, occupational and public health at Middlesex

You’ll go on to satisfying career choices with councils, consultancies and beyond.

Develop your skills in our food inspection and environmental health suite and translate them to professional practice through industry tours and visits.

Postgraduate study will expand your horizons to help you find your role in public, private or voluntary sectors.

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Our Environmental, Occupational and Public Health courses at a glance

Placements and experience

Most of our courses offer an optional placement year, so you can make connections and build up your practical experience.

Industry recognised

Ours is the only fully-accredited environmental health degree in London and the only undergraduate degree accredited by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH).

Cutting-edge facilties

You’ll have access to our state-of-the-art facilties.

Environmental, occupational and public health facilities

Get hands-on learning and experience with our environmental and occupational health suite, complete with industry-grade equipment and software.

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  • Envionmental, occupational and public health in the news

Winter flooding: we need to refine our current approach, not tear it up and start all over

Academics at our world famous Flood Hazard Research Centre have created an eight point plan for improving flood risk management in England. Their recommendations should minimise the cost and disruption of future flooding.

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Eavesdropping crows can tell the difference between human languages - research

PhD student at Middlesex University discovered crows can discriminate between human languages, as they watch out for potential dangers

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MDX academic influences WHO to include vital stroke prevention drug in essential medicines list

In an paper published in the Journal, Global Heart, Dr Mariachiara Di Cesare, a Senior Lecturer in Public Health, describes how non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) could be a cheaper and safer treatment for people who have atrial fibrillation (AF) and are therefore at high risk.

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MDX academic co-ordinates international initiative to test for COVID-19

Professor of Environmental Science Lian Lundy, is co-ordinating an international initiative to develop a comparable, open-access database on the occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in sewage. Results will directly inform ongoing research into the use of the approach to provide an early warning of local outbreaks of COVID-19.

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