Bachelor Degree in Environmental Sciences and Health

Contributes to sustainable development: A comprehensive and multidisciplinary program that trains professionals to address contemporary environmental and public health challenges, developing in them the necessary competencies to contribute to sustainable development and to the improvement of the quality of life of communities and the environment at a global level.

Description

The Bachelor’s program in Environmental Sciences and Health is designed to train professionals with a deep understanding of the interrelationship between environmental factors and human health.

Through a comprehensive and multidisciplinary education, it seeks to prepare students to face and solve environmental and public health challenges in a global context.

The objective is to train leaders capable of undertaking sustainable actions, rigorously applying their scientific and technological knowledge, and contributing significantly to sustainable development and the improvement of environmental and human health.

Hiram Cantú, director del programa de Ingeniero Biomédico.

Hiram Alejandro Cantú Campos

Dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences

[email protected]

+52 (81) 8215-1000 ext. 1601

Objective

The objective of the Bachelor’s degree program in Environmental Sciences and Health is to train professionals capable of identifying and analyzing environmental risks that impact human and ecosystem health, in order to design and propose innovative and functional solutions. These graduates will be committed to the conservation and improvement of health from a socio-environmental perspective, basing their actions on ethical principles and with a focus on dignified treatment.

Bachelor degree in environmental sciences and health student competences:

Understands the biological, economic, political and social implications using an interdependent global context, in order to contribute to health.
Undertakes high-impact, sustainable actions between the environment and public health, through environmental conditioning factors, which include physical, chemical and biological factors, as well as all related behaviors, to contribute to the improvement of the environment, control human and ecosystem health risks with openness and fairness.
Rigorously apply their scientific, technological and technical knowledge, conducting research in the field and/or laboratory, with critical, analytical and logical thinking to identify and treat environmental problems that affect the health of humans and ecosystems, in order to contribute to society in the pursuit of sustainable development with social responsibility and humanism.
Characterizes and identifies in a timely manner the ecological risks and regional or global environmental problems, contributing with multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams in the prevention of risks to human health and the consequences they may leave on the individual and their environment, with equity.
Designs and executes sustainable intervention programs in the family, community, institutional, industrial and ecological spheres, through the use of scientific, technological and technical knowledge, for the sustainable use of resources, with empathy and social justice.
Conducts health risk assessments, environmental risk, functional integrity of ecosystems, health impacts and impacts on socio-environmental systems using emerging information and communication technologies to perform environmental health diagnostics, as well as to generate real solutions through the design and implementation of quantitative indicators.
Analyzes the different environments of action from its competence and seeks the development of new knowledge through multidisciplinary research, to solve needs with personal commitment and for the common good.
Elaborates and advises environmental projects, through the integration of conceptual, methodological and technological tools, for the sustainable use of resources, with leadership and honesty, applying the legal, national and international regulatory frameworks in the environmental field in his professional practice.
Generates ideas and products that challenge the established through research on environmental determinants of health, both for risk management and to solve needs for the common good.
Has the necessary tools to continue his or her professional training at a national or international postgraduate level.

Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Sciences and Health with Recognition of Official Validity of Studies (RVOE) granted by the Ministry of Public Education on July 2, 2024 according to Agreement 20241220. Valid from July 2, 2024 to April 2, 2031.