Throughout this module, you will be introduced to environmental exposure to pollution and its impacts on human health internationally, focusing on solutions, their implementation and evaluation. You will receive a transdisciplinary experience and set of skills to successfully propose a potentially viable pilot intervention. You will learn from pollution, exposure, modelling, toxicology, ‘big data’ and biostatistics, epidemiology, behavioural change and policy analysis. You are expected to apply complementary interdisciplinary approaches to solve a problem using STEMM, but also employing business, entrepreneurship, project planning and communication skills.

You will cover pollution from different sources and types, how they’re created and who they affect. You will also examine pollution from a ‘solution’ perspective and consider what stakeholders are involved in mitigating pollution. You will utilize your presentation and research skills to bring forth your solutions in an engaging and innovative way.

By the end of this module, you will better be able to:

Explain why pollution is a public health concern based on evidence
Analyse and generate evidence from across multiple disciplinary fields to identify and justify a need to address an environmental pollution issue
Evaluate existing pollution interventions and suggest potential improvements to increase their impact in a multi-disciplinary context
Identify, design and plan the development of a tangible intervention which aims to create a solution to an environmental pollution problem and propose its expected outcomes

You will be guided in how to create evidence-based solutions across up to eight topic areas, including for example:

Understanding sources and types of pollution
Measuring human exposure
Modelling human exposure
Toxicology
Opportunities for ‘big data’ and biostatistics
Epidemiology and assessing health impact
Social and behavioural change
Implementing policy and cost-benefit analysis