PHTH2414 (Environmental Health) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Average rating 3.7/5. Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Offers an overview of the field of environmental health, with focus on what the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences terms “environmental public health.” This broad field increasingly involves transdisciplinary approaches that use social science/environmental health collaborations, and it includes the physical, built, and social environments. Asks students to think critically about the economic, scientific, social, and political factors that shape environmental health and to consider how the field is relevant to other public health issues.
Data updated October 2026.