Educating the workforce: expectations and curricular needs of environmental health

Environmental health services have been affected markedly by a wide range of scientific, social, economic and political developments. The future environmental health specialist will require a strong background in the basic environmental health sciences as well as highly developed management and administrative skills. He or she will need the capacity to conduct policy analysis and to reason scientifically and rigorously in relation to environmental health issues as well as social and economic trends that may impact on environmental conditions.