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Welcome to the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, a unique academic enterprise that spans the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins. 

There is a long tradition in our university, as the first research university in the U.S., to innovate by building multidisciplinary teams of faculty, staff, fellows, and students to help tackle major environmental problems facing people now and in the future.

Our unique training environment combines expertise in the physical, biological, chemical, health, and risk sciences. We truly cover the spectrum of environmental concerns by exploring processes from the molecular to the cellular, organ system to the individual, and to communities and populations as a whole. Our vision is to provide the foundational precepts to build your capacity to become leaders of your chosen fields in environmental health and engineering. We recognize that many of our students and fellows today will have impactful careers over the rest of the 21st century. Thus, while our training builds upon core principles of the past, we must provide opportunities to enhance those skills needed to solve both known and emerging environmental challenges for decades to come.

All of us in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering look forward to helping you on your educational journey during your years at Johns Hopkins. We take great pride in our graduates and their many achievements, built in no small part upon their education here. This is an exciting and very challenging time for our field, and we take our responsibility seriously to ensure that our educational research and practice activities can be translated to the improvement of health and the reduction of the burden of the many environmentally induced diseases across the globe. 

John Groopman, PhD, Interim Chair,
Environmental Health and Engineering
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