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Graduate School of Environment and Sustainability

Environment and human health

Never before has the delicate balance between people’s health and wellbeing and that of the planet come into such sharp focus and our academics are pioneering interdisciplinary research to ensure local, national and global actions are better informed by the needs of both.

The COVID 19 pandemic significantly disrupted essential health services, lowered global life expectancy, derailed progress towards ending HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, and reduced global childhood vaccination levels for the first time in 10 years.

On our programmes you can investigate the intricate relationships between contemporary global human health and the environment, explore how factors such as climate change, air pollution, microbes, social inequalities and access to green and blue spaces impact health, and study microbial evolution, and the evolution and ecology of infectious diseases caused by bacterial and viral pathogens. 

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Courses

You may also be interested in the following programmes delivered at our Streatham Campus in Exeter:

To find out more or pay us a visit, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. 
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