This course will provide students with an understanding of basic scientific concepts in ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, and thermal stress, for both workplace and environmental exposures (built environment and natural); n understanding of the methods and instrumentation for measuring all of the relevant physical stressors and energies, with a goal of assessing health outcomes for individuals or populations; an understanding of the engineering, administrative controls and personal protective measures available for the reduction of hazards from these physical agents; and knowledge of the units of measurement, standards and guidelines in Canadian jurisdictions applicable to these physical agents, and familiarity with relevant international guidelines or standards.

This course is an introduction to the principles of occupational and environmental hygiene. The purpose of this course is to introduce the multidisciplinary concepts and terminology and to provide an overview of some of the sampling and analysis methodologies used in the professional practice of hygiene, both in workplace settings and for ambient air monitoring.

This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of selected quantitative occupational and environmental hygiene methods, strategies and modelling for the determination of chemical contaminant exposures.

This course will deal with human health hazards related to chemical exposures in the workplace and environment. Topics covered include basic principles governing toxic responses, i.e., dose/response relationships, approaches to toxicity testing and risk assessment, the effect of biological systems on a chemical substance (absorption, distribution, biotransformation and excretion) and the effects of chemicals on biological systems (reaction with critical target molecules, initiation of key events that may lead to toxicities and pathologies). Cellular and molecular mechanisms of such toxic effects will be discussed, as well as environmental, physiological and chemical modulators of toxic responses. The impact of industrial chemicals on various organ systems, their role in the aetiology of various diseases, the toxicities associated with classes of chemicals, as well as assessment of risk to individuals exposed to toxic substances will becovered.

This course will describe the physics of sound and the measurement of noise levels, doses and frequencies; strategies for undertaking a comprehensive noise survey and the standards for noise exposure; reduction of noise through engineering controls; hearing conservation and protection programs; and health effects of noise and vibration.

At the end of this course, the student should: 1) Understand the various strategies used by occupational hygienists to reduce or eliminate exposures to chemical stressors in the work environment; 2) understand the principles of industrial ventilation design as it relates to the removal of toxic chemicals from the workplace, including general and local exhaust systems, make-up air, fans, air cleaning systems, and recirculation; 3) be able to assess the effectiveness of ventilation systems in controlling health hazards; 4) Understand the principles, uses and limitations of respiratory protection, including correct selection for chemical and biological agents; and, 5) Understand the importance of substitution, isolation and other non-engineering control methods for reducing health risks in the workplace.

This course provides students with hands-on experience in workplace safety management, as a health and safety professional. It is intended to provide participants with skills and strategies to manage and implement operational control of safety hazards and prevention programs. Through weekly lectures with subject matter experts, accident and workplace case studies, and workplace safety assessments, students will gain practical experience in the identification, evaluation, prevention and control of high-risk occupational safety hazards. Students will develop technical skills in hazard identification, qualitative risk assessment, control program assessment and development, legislation awareness and application, accident investigation and emergency preparedness, risk-based auditing, and application of safety management system frameworks. The course will also help students develop leadership skills including goal setting, action planning, project management, team building, and effective communications including concise and accurate report writing and presentations.

This course is intended to familiarize students with a wide range of biological hazards that may be encountered in community and work environments, including commercial, non-industrial, industrial and health care settings, with emphasis on the methods occupational hygienists use to recognize, evaluate, and control microbiological hazards. Course modules include: 1) bioaerosol science and sampling; 2) microbiology of the built environment; 3) investigation, sampling, interpretation and remediation of indoor microbial contamination; 4) biosafety and the Human Pathogens and Toxins Act and Regulation; 5) health care biosafety; 6) industrial biosafety; and 7) dual use agents and biological weapons.

This lecture‐based course will familiarize students with fungi of public health importance, particularly those that cause disease in humans and other animals. The course will focus on the population health implications, environmental risk factors, clinical presentation, pathophysiology, and treatment of fungal infections. The course will also cover aspects of the ecology, physiology and evolutionary biology of the agents responsible. The course will address other ways in which fungi influence human and animal health both in Canada and globally.

This course is intended to provide students with an opportunity 1) to learn about a variety of current advanced topics in occupational and environmental health research; 2) to demonstrate the ability to select, synthesize and communicate information in a focused area of scholarship, and 3) to engage in professional development.

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 emission 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 and; the practice of setting ambient air quality standards and also informing people in order to benefit public health through reduction in exposure. Lectures on selected topics will be given by experts representing academic, medical, government and industry.

The course is designed to provide background, knowledge and understanding of climate and climate change, including the anthropogenic processes that give rise to greenhouse gases. It will explore in depth both direct and indirect effects of climate on ecological systems and human health, differentiating and comparing impacts on various communities and populations. Students will be expected to understand and apply risk/vulnerability assessment protocols to evaluate climate change impacts on health of populations and communities. It will explore concepts related to health interventions and responses including mitigation and adaptation strategies at the international, national, provincial and local levels (municipal, community or private enterprise).

The required practicum provides an opportunity for learners to apply the theory and knowledge gained in coursework by engaging in new projects and experiences in professional settings. Throughout the practicum, it is essential for learners to reflect on and record their experiences and to engage in regular discussions with their practicum supervisor about their practicum progress. This course normally requires eight weeks of full-time placement (280 to 320 hours).

This course code is a four-week extension to CHL6010Y Required MPH Practicum, adding four weeks of full-time placement (140 to 160 hours).

This course code is a long extension to CHL6010Y Required MPH Practicum, adding eight weeks of full-time placement (280 to 320 hours).

The required MPH Advanced Standing practicum provides an opportunity for learners to apply the theory and knowledge gained in coursework by engaging in new projects and experiences in professional settings. Throughout the practicum, it is essential for learners to reflect on and record their experiences and to engage in regular discussions with their practicum supervisor about their practicum progress.

MPH students may choose an optional practicum which involves both more advanced and demonstrably different work in the same field as the required practicum or may be in another area of public health depending upon their academic needs and interest. Throughout the practicum, it is essential for learners to reflect on and record their experiences and to engage in regular discussions with their practicum supervisor about their practicum progress. Consult the field-specific practicum manual or the Program Director for practicum evaluation details. This course normally requires eight weeks of full-time placement (280 to 230 hours).

This course code is a four-week extension to CHL6020Y Optional MPH Practicum, adding four weeks of full-time placement (140 to 160 hours).

This course code is a long extension to CHL6020Y Optional MPH Practicum, adding eight weeks of full-time placement (280 to 320 hours).

A directed reading course is a course created when an individual student (or a very small group of students) wishes to explore a topic not currently offered as a graduate course. The student is responsible for finding a faculty member who is willing to supervise the student(s); together they will create the learning goals, deliverables, resources, timeline, and mechanism for feedback. The supervising faculty member must have a Graduate Faculty (SGS) Appointment through the Graduate Department of Public Health Sciences.

A directed research course is a course created when an individual student (or a very small group of students) wishes to explore a topic not currently offered as a graduate course. The student is responsible for finding a faculty member who is willing to supervise the student(s); together they will create the learning goals, deliverables, resources, timeline, and mechanism for feedback. The supervising faculty member must have a Graduate Faculty (SGS) Appointment through the Graduate Department of Public Health Sciences.

This serves as a course shell for 0.25 FCE e-learning modules. The modules may address a range of public health issues, controversies, and current topics and enable students to add breadth to their public health studies.

This serves as a course shell for 0.25 FCE e-learning modules. The modules may address a range of methods and approaches used in public health research and/or practice, and enhance breadth of exposure to public health topics.

Variable, depending on the individual topic. Special Topics syllabi will be reviewed and approved by PHS Graduate Curriculum Committee.

Variable, depending on the individual topic. Special Topics syllabi will be reviewed and approved by PHS Graduate Curriculum Committee.

The goal of the course is to acquaint you with the techniques and concepts that are used to study the mechanisms of organic reactions. By the end of this course, students will: understand the factors that influence rates and equilibrium constants, and how they are determined experimentally; understand how molecular orbital interactions influence the conformations and configurations of organic molecules; be familiar with concepts related to computational chemistry, including molecular mechanics, quantum chemical calculations, and basis sets; understand how to use linear free energy relationships to address mechanistic questions; be able to derive a rate law that corresponds to a proposed mechanism, and to analyze kinetic data; understand how to interpret the results of kinetic isotope effect experiments; be able to devise experimental approaches to probe mechanisms of complex reactions; be able to read and understand journal articles related to modern physical organic chemistry.

This course provides an overview of the structures of the different pharmaceutical agents that are used for the treatment of human disease. Within each therapeutic area, representative drugs currently on the market or in advanced clinical trials are discussed with a focus on their method of synthesis. A combination of reactions learned in previous courses and new reactions will be used to understand the strategy and the synthetic routes that are presented. Successful students will be able to: have a basic understanding of the drug discovery process and pharmaceutical industry; recall and describe metal catalyzed reactions taught in the course; predict the outcome of organic reaction sequences; discuss the different aspects of drug discovery including how pharmaceutical companies are organized to take on the task of finding, then preparing, drug candidates; propose reaction mechanisms and create synthetic routes to molecules of moderate complexity using reactions taught in the course and those taught in previous organic chemistry courses. An oral examination is a key part of the course. Preparing for and participating in the examination will teach important skills, useful well outside the chemistry domain.

This course will discuss the application of several spectroscopic methods available to chemistry students and researchers, including elemental analysis (EA), mass spectrometry (MS), infrared (IR) spectroscopy, and 1 H/13 C NMR. The fundamentals of two-dimensional NMR techniques, such as COSY and HSQC, and their importance in structural elucidation will be highlighted. Practical aspects of each method will be emphasized, and students will learn how to operate instruments pertaining to IR and NMR spectroscopy. The classes teach theory and problem-solving approaches in interpreting data to elucidate the structure of complex organic molecules. CHM1005H builds on material taught in CHM343H, CHM247H/249H, and CHM136H/CHM151Y. The importance of spectroscopy cannot be overstated. Whether you work in academia or industry, proper analysis and identification of synthesized material is of paramount importance. The problem solving and analysis skills obtained by performing complex molecule structural elucidation are useful in fields beyond chemistry.

The purpose of the course is to provide a mechanistic understanding of biochemical reactions in terms of organic chemical knowledge. Thus, this course is intended for students with a strong background in organic chemistry, obtained in our third-year courses, CHM347 (organic chemistry of biological compounds) and CHM348 (organic reaction mechanisms). Much of this course is on understanding biological catalysis. Select coenzyme and enzyme catalysis will be discussed focusing on kinetics and mechanisms. This will also include enzyme inhibition and drug design. Other biological applications in molecular recognition and catalysis will be discussed through modern topics in catalytic antibodies, ribozymes, directed molecularevolution, mRNA vaccines, DNA encoded combinatorial libraries (DEL), and base editing and prime editing with CRISPR.