Department of Environmental and Global Health (part of the University of Florida)

As a department in the College of Public Health and Health Professions, Environmental and Global Health (EGH) focuses on innovative solutions to complex human and ecosystem health problems caused by the global intersection of humans, animals, and the environment. EGH serves as a hub for a faculty and students dedicated to excellence in education, research, and service in the environmental health sciences.

Faculty members in the department are highly recognized for their research accolades in areas that include environmentally-mediated infectious disease (e.g. cholera, schistosomiasis, malaria and other food/water-borne diarrheal diseases), airborne pathogen transmission, virus discovery, arthropod borne viruses (chikungunya, dengue, zika, malaria, etc.) and their vectors, environmental toxicology, environmental change (e.g. climate), nanoscience, aquatic animal health, water quality and sanitation, global health nutrition, and seafood worker safety. Their innovative projects are based in the U.S. and in several countries around the world, including Haiti, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Niger, Ethiopia, Kenya, Trinidad, Zambia, Tanzania, and China that span basic laboratory and social science to field-based and quantitative modeling approaches. The department collaborates extensively with other members of UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute and the Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology.