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The Johns ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ has again been ranked #1 in the nation in Environmental Health Sciences, as measured by U.S. News & World Report. The ranking represents the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering’s leadership in programs and courses in the discipline of environmental health. 

The Department was also ranked No. 15 in the nation for its graduate environmental engineering programs. This marks a 10-spot leap over last year’s ranking. The U.S. News rankings for public health and engineering specialties are based on reputation as measured by peer evaluations.   

The Bloomberg School of Public Health and the were ranked No. 1 and No. 13, respectively. School rankings are based on a detailed assessment process that includes a comprehensive set of factors, including a school’s research expenditures, faculty productivity, admissions selectivity, and feedback from professional peers and employers who hire the school’s graduates.  

""Our affiliation with two leading schools enables us to create innovative solutions for critical environmental challenges at the nexus of public health and engineering," says Marsha Wills-Karp, PhD, Department Chair and Anna M. Baetjer Professor in Environmental Health.  

Here are a few department highlights from the past year: 

• Researchers with the Center for a Livable Future evaluated the environmental impact of the 10 most-consumed seafood products in the United States, giving consumers the ability to make more informed choices.
• Continuing their work studying the impact of industry on fence line communities using a state-of-the-art mobile air quality monitoring system, an EHE team led by Peter DeCarlo found that .
• Closer to home, a team of researchers with confirmed that the black dust that has coated homes and businesses for decades in the South Baltimore community of Curtis Bay , something CSX has consistently denied. 

Johns ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Again Ranked #1 by Peers in U.S. News & World Report 

Whiting School of Engineering Ranked #13 by Peers in U.S. News & World Report