About
About EHE
The Department of Environmental Health and Engineering is a collaborative hybrid uniquely designed to lead pioneering research and prepare the next generation of scholars to solve critical and complex issues at the interface of public health and engineering.
This cross-divisional department builds on the strengths of the Whiting School’s former Geography and Environmental Engineering department and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School’s former Environmental Health Sciences department.
EHE’s mission is to improve the health of the planet and its inhabitants. EHE’s academic and research activities span the science of biological processes, environmental engineering, environmental and health policy, and data analytics. With its accomplished faculty and visionary students, EHE is uses its broad and deep expertise to propel discovery and innovation, while inspiring and educating scholars of the 21st century and beyond.
EHE offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in environmental engineering, as well as a range of master's and doctoral degrees in public health.
Message from the Chair
Welcome to the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, a unique academic enterprise that spans the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins.
There is a long tradition in our university, as the first research university in the U.S., to innovate by building multidisciplinary teams of faculty, staff, fellows, and students to help tackle major environmental problems.
Our unique training environment combines expertise in the physical, biological, chemical, health, and risk sciences. We truly cover the spectrum of environmental concerns by exploring processes from the molecular to the cellular, organ system to the individual, and to communities and populations as a whole. Our vision is to provide the foundational precepts to build your capacity to become leaders of your chosen fields in environmental health and engineering. We recognize that many of our students and fellows today will have impactful careers over the rest of the 21st century. Thus, while our training builds upon core principles of the past, we must provide opportunities to enhance those skills needed to solve both known and emerging environmental challenges for decades to come.
We take great pride in our graduates and their many achievements, built in no small part upon their education here. This is an exciting and challenging time for our field, and we take our responsibility seriously to ensure that our educational research and practice activities can be translated into improvements in health and reductions in the burden of environmentally induced diseases worldwide.
John Groopman, PhD, Interim Chair,
Environmental Health and Engineering
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Whiting School of Engineering