The Centre leads and delivers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate education and training relating to environment and human health.
MSc in Environment & Human Health
The University of Exeter MSc in Environment & Human Health is an innovative postgraduate programme, delivered primarily online for distance learning. Linking strongly with the Centre’s research, students investigate the intricate and complex relationships between contemporary global human health and the environment. The MSc covers a wide breadth of topics, including climate change, air pollution, antimicrobial resistance in the environment, social inequalities and access to green and blue spaces. Students are supported to explore how these factors impact health and wellbeing, whilst critically analysing evidence from a range of qualitative and quantitative sources.
Students can take the MSc fulltime in 1 year, or part-time over 2 or 3 years. More information and online applications are via the MSc webpages.
Undergraduate teaching
Centre teaching staff contribute a range of teaching for undergraduates within the University of Exeter Medical School and beyond. Key activities include:
Leading four modules delivered at the Penryn campus:
Guest lectures and teaching across the university on topics related to Centre research.
Continuing Professional Development
We run two CPD courses, working with our colleagues in the Medical School CPD team. These are again tied closely to our world leading research, and are delivered by Centre researchers with guests from a range of our partner organisations. More information and booking is via the CPD pages.
This course will explore how natural environments can benefit the physical and mental health of people in a variety of different ways. It will address the relationship between nature and health, how the relationship works, why this matters for the environment, public health and sustainability, as well as how you can apply these learnings in your own practice. This course investigates the potential for the natural environment to be harnessed as a resource to improve human health and wellbeing. The potential mechanisms, moderators, and applications for these health benefits will be explored, considering large data sets and key studies linking nature and exposure and health, both within the UK and around the world.
Led by national and international experts from The European Centre for Environment and Human Health, this four-day course will be delivered virtually.
In this course, we take a ‘One Health’ approach to understanding antimicrobial resistance: We consider the important roles that humans, animals, and the environment play in the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is therefore recognised as a significant global threat to healthcare and society. AMR is a leading cause of death globally and has been referred to as a ‘silent pandemic’. Recent estimates suggest that 5 million people die each year from antibacterial resistant infections, with the cumulative impact upon the global economy placed at $100 trillion by the year 2050. AMR was added to the UK National Risk Register in 2014, alongside climate change, pandemic influenza, and terrorism.