Admission Requirements
All applicants must have already completed their bachelor’s degree, preferably in a life sciences discipline, from an accredited institution of higher education, and have taken at least three undergraduate-level biology courses such as Microbiology, Cell Biology, and/or Molecular Biology or Biochemistry, or have significant work experience in biosafety (permission of the program coordinator required), prior to applying into the program.
Required Courses
19.508 Principles and Practices of Biological Safety
19.516 Laboratory Environmental Health and Safety
19.525 Introduction to Occupational & Environmental Hygiene & Ergonomics – Available Summer2011!
Electives (choose 1):
36.541 Introduction to Public Health and the Public Health Laboratory
30.550 Human Development and Pathophysiology
36.580 Clinical Applications of Molecular Genetics – Available Summer2011!
32.504 Health Data Analysis
