Students enrolled in the Hazardous Substances Academic Training Program (HSAT) follow the curriculum of the Industrial Hygiene Program and receive a degree in Industrial Hygiene. (Please refer to the previous section on Industrial Hygiene.) HSAT students, however, receive supplemental training on topics particularly relevant to protecting workers and communities from hazardous substances and hazardous wastes. For this additiona l training, they are also awarded a 40-hour Hazwoper Training Certificate, a statutory requirement for entering Superfund sites and certain other operations in which exposures to a myriad of hazardous substances are possible. The HSAT Program offers scho larships funded a training grant through a collaborative effort of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

Academic Degree Programs

Please refer to the section on Industrial Hygiene for details.

Program Director

Stephen N. Rudnick, MS, MS, SD, CIH
Director Hazardous Substances Academic Training
Harvard School of Public Health
SPH I-G9
665 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Telephone: (617) 432-1162
Email: srudnick@hohp.harvard.edu

Admissions Requirements

Please refer to the section on Industrial Hygiene for details.