Applications are open for a Professional Master's degree in Chemicals Risk Management from the University of Cape Town (UCT), and supported by the UNEP GEF Chemicals and Waste Unit.
Offered by UCT's Environmental Health Division in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, the master's degree gives students an interdisciplinary and holistic approach to chemicals risk management. It provides skills and training in all the relevant areas a chemicals risk manager will need, and is aimed at health professionals, chemists, biologists, sociologists, anthropologists, ecologists, agronomists, toxicologists and other professionals working in chemicals management.
The degree is offered as a two-year, part-time, flexible-learning programme with a substantial distance-learning component, using internet-based education technology.
The Professional Master’s benefits from the support and guidance developed under the GEF-funded “Integrated Health and Environment Observatories and legal and institutional strengthening for the Sound Management of chemicals in Africa (GEF ID 9080 - African ChemObs)” project.
The deadline for applications is 31 August 2022.
More information can be found here.