Department of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

Department of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

The Department was established in 1999. There are 18 faculty members including 5 professors, 7 associate professors, 3 lecturers and 2 technicians, most of whom have PhD degrees and overseas study experiences. The discipline was authorized by National Education Council to offer master’s degree in 1978 and doctorate degree in 2000. It was awarded as the National Key Academic Discipline in 2008.

The department offers diverse courses for five-year undergraduate, seven-year postgraduate and MPH students, including Occupational Medicine and Occupational Health, Environmental Health, Public Health Laws and Surveillance, Hygiene, and so on. Among them, “Labor Hygiene and Occupational Medicine” has been listed as the Jiangsu Provincial excellent course, and “Environmental Health” rated as NMU excellent course. Besides, the department edited the textbook “Comprehensive Experiment of Preventive Medicine”, which had been selected as the excellent book of Jiangsu Province. Moreover, many graduation thesis, including doctor, master, undergraduate students, have achieved the provincial excellent awards.

Currently, the department has undertaken more than 40 scientific projects, including National 973 Projects, NSFC (Key programs, collaborative project of Sino-Canada, general and young foundations). There are more than 100 peer-review SCI publications and 6 patents. Also, the department has achieved many scientific awards from Ministry of Education to Jiangsu Province.

 

Director: Prof. WANG Shoulin

Associate Director: Associate Prof. WANG Meilin; Associate Prof. WANG Shouyu