Description
Apply preventive medicine and public health expertise to identify, assess, and mitigate environmental and occupational exposures affecting individuals and communities. Provide population-based services and clinical evaluations to prevent or reduce disease, injury, disability, or death linked to air, water, soil, food, built-environment, and chemical hazards.
- • Teach and train clinicians and staff on environmental exposure assessment, toxicity, and risk reduction.
- • Obtain and review exposure-focused medical and environmental/occupational histories.
- • Prepare environmental health risk assessments, reports, and mitigation recommendations.
- • Supervise or coordinate physicians, nurses, industrial hygienists, and environmental health professionals.
- • Deliver risk communication and educational presentations to community and professional audiences.
- • Evaluate the effectiveness of environmental controls, remediation, and policy interventions.
- • Identify communities and workers at risk from hazards such as lead, pesticides, air pollution, heat, and noise.
- • Use surveillance tools, biomonitoring data, and vital records to detect exposure-related health risks.
- • Direct public health programs on air and water quality, hazardous waste, vector control, food safety, and housing health.
- • Investigate outbreaks and disease clusters with suspected environmental sources (e.g., Legionella, waterborne, mold).
- • Develop and implement interventions to reduce exposures and unsafe behaviors in homes, workplaces, and schools.
- • Lead prevention programs in environmental and occupational health, including lead abatement and asthma trigger reduction.
- • Design, implement, or evaluate environmental health services and referral systems for exposed populations.
- • Coordinate with health departments, environmental agencies, utilities, housing authorities, and emergency managers.
- • Provide timely guidance and regulatory reporting to authorities, clinicians, media, and the public on environmental hazards.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
