Presentation and aims

One of the major challenges currently facing companies is the interaction between planning or sustainable development policies, industrial strategies and public health. This field calls for the new skills that may be acquired from the courses available from the EHESP and MINES ParisTech, two prestigious schools, at the interface between environmental health and sustainable development issues.

The first intake for this specialist Master’s degree will start in October 2010.
The specialist Master’s degree – “Environmental health: challenges for the country and companies” – is a 12-month course (24 months for students who wish to study while continuing their full-time employment). It is designed to provide engineers, management and highly qualified experts with an overall understanding of the challenges related to development and environmental health policies.
The syllabus covers all the knowledge, tools and methods needed to operate effectively in public and industrial settings, providing innovative skills for decision-makers.
At the end of the course, students should be able to:

• estimate overall health impacts by applying an integrated approach to environmental health and development issues
• be familiar with and contribute to the development of the means used in public policies and industrial strategies to take account of health issues in planning and development
• be familiar with and know how to use social and ethical evaluation and control tools

The course

Tuition is in French with some lessons and conferences in English.

Lessons are held at the EHESP and MINES ParisTech in Paris although some courses may take place at the EHESP in Rennes.

The course is divided into 6 modules, one of which is dedicated to a work placement and thesis. It provides skills and knowledge in the following fields:

• Basics of environmental health
• Environmental impacts and health consequences of major environmental issues related to the development and functioning of society
• Taking account of health in planning and development of the country
• Taking account of health in industrial strategies
• Evaluation of public policies and social and ethical control.

Eligibility

The specialist Master’s degree – “Environmental health: challenges for the country and companies” – is an interdisciplinary course designed for students from a wide range of backgrounds. The only requirement is to have an honour’s degree (bac+5) or, for applicants with 3 or more years’ professional experience in an appropriate field, a degree and a one year Master’s degree (bac+4).
The following diplomas and disciplines are particularly suited to the course

• Engineers (natural sciences, life sciences, chemistry, civil and urban engineering, etc.)
• Science Master’s degree (environment, etc.)
• Medicine
• Pharmacy
• Urbanism
• Architecture
• Economics
• Law
• Quality management
• Etc.

Students with other qualifications may be accepted after evaluation of their basic scientific culture by the selection committee. Account is also taken of students’ interest in issues related to the field of the specialist master’s degree.

Applicants are selected at an interview before a panel of teaching staff from both schools.

Job prospects

The course is designed to meet a strong demand from companies and institutions (industrial groups, agencies, local authorities, etc.) that recognise the importance of environmental health issues in the widest sense and need qualified personnel to deal with them.
Students of the specialist Master’s degree – “environmental health: challenges for the country and companies” will acquire skills that can form the basis for jobs in many fields:

• Assessing health impacts of planning and development projects or the fabrication and marketing of new products
• Manager in charge of planning, environmental or sustainable development projects, for the analysis of product life cycles, taking account of the impact on health on the projects for which he/she is responsible and the means of controlling these impacts
• Health, safety and environment manager in industry
• Manager of planning services and studies.

Graduates are eligible for posts in various bodies

• Central or decentralised services of ministries responsible for health or sustainable development, ministries dealing with particular sectors such as agriculture, industry, etc. and their public national or regional agencies
• Local authorities and Intercommunal co-operation committees (EPCI) (General and Regional Councils, towns, urban communes, etc)
• Design offices, town planning and development consultancies
• Major industrial groups and professional federations in services responsible for the environment or health and safety
• Management consultants, credit rating agencies, insurance and banking groups
• Major NGOs and European or international organisations.

Registration

Deadline for applications: end May 2011.
The registration file will be downloaded from February 2011.
Fees

The course fee for students is €10,000. For institutions, the fee is €15,000. Possibilities of price reduction, contact us.
Contacts

Béatrice ROUDAUT
Tel. : +33 (0) 2 99 02 26 02
MSsanteenvironnement@ehesp.fr