Increasing Diversity in Environmental Health Graduate Programs.
The aim of our study was to determine what motivates and deters students from historically marginalized populations from pursuing degrees in environmental health and to develop recommendations that programs can implement to diversify their student body and, subsequently, the workforce. We recruited...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Environmental Health Vol. 85; no. 9; pp. 26 - 30 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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National Environmental Health Association
May2023
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