Candidates must hold a doctoral degree in environmental health, occupational safety, or a related field. The successful candidate’s scholarship will focus on occupational safety or environmental health (e.g., ergonomics, human factors, industrial hygiene, toxicology, exposure science, risk assessment) and will be aligned with at least one of the school’s six centers:
- Ergonomics Center,
- Center for Health and Nature,
- Center for Community Health and Aging,
- the USA Center for Rural Public Health Preparedness,
- Southwest Rural Health Research Center,
- Center for Health Equity and Evaluation Research.
The candidate will be expected to pursue collaborations with institutes, centers, and programs across the Texas A&M University campus (e.g., TAMU Superfund Research Center, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center)
About the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
The department has 16 full time faculty members, is the administrative home of the Ergonomics Center and the Center for Population Health and Aging and trains approximately 60 graduate students annually. It offers a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Environmental Health, Occupational Safety and Health, and Doctor of Public Health (DrPH). Additionally, Environmental and Occupational Health faculty teach in the School’s undergraduate degree program, which has nearly 2,600 students, including a minor in Occupational Safety and Health, available to all Texas A&M majors.
The School of Public Health is the only unit among the Health Science Center holding qualifications and membership in the Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools (HSHPS).