Environmental Health Sciences

The Environmental Health Sciences programme from Masaryk University integrates PhD topics of environmental chemistry, toxicology and risk assessment with related problems of analysis and modelling of big data produced in current research of environmental factors affecting health. 

This Environmental Health Sciences programme from Masaryk University  will prepare graduates with outstanding profiles for both the national and international labour markets. The graduates have broad experiences with active communication in English (that is practised during all study), carry other transferable skills and competencies learned through practical addressing of specific problems as well as own preparation and running of small projects.

Career opportunities

Graduates will be able to successfully work within national and international set up at institutions and universities running research programmes on chemical contamination and other environmental factors affecting ecosystems and human health, including related fields of big data analyses, mathematical biology, bioinformatics and biomedicine. In addition to research, graduates may aim to institutions involved in safety assessment and control of various environmental matrices, food safety and risk assessment. 

Graduates of the programme may also actively work in the organizations controlling chemical risks, in laboratories or research departments of innovative biotechnological enterprises, in companies focusing on environmental technologies including bioremediations or in the regional or governmental authorities.

After successfully completing his/her studies the graduate is able to:

• to independently and creatively plan and conduct research and master methodologies and models in the field of environmental stressors and their interactions with human and ecosystems

• to write and publish critical research studies –papers – and prepare these for publication in the best scientific journals

• to present and defend own research results at the international scientific conference

• to understand and use broader theoretical knowledge on the interaction of chemicals and other environmental factors on human health and ecosystems