This program is a Transfer program to Missouri Southern State University Environmental Health is the science of preventing physical, chemical, or biological hazards from adversely impacting human health or the ecological balances that sustain our environment. A bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health provides you with the knowledge, skills, and credentials necessary to work as an environmental health professional or to continue in environmental health graduate studies. Career opportunities include professional positions with public health departments, environmental protection agencies, environmental consultants, occupational health and safety divisions of industry.