The Graduate Program in Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) is administered by the Department of Environmental Medicine of the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine through the NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS). Its mission is to prepare scientists for active research careers and other professional service in various disciplines involving assessment of the adverse health effects that may result from exposure to environmental chemical and physical agents.

Graduate research and training within the Program reflect the diverse interests of the Program faculty, who are concerned with investigating and developing effective methods of dealing with environmental factors associated with major public health impacts, such as cancer and respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Issues in environmental health are, by their nature, interdisciplinary. Thus, the Program faculty consists of individuals having various academic backgrounds, and includes physicians, toxicologists, epidemiologists, engineers, chemists, physicists and mathematicians. In the size and diversity of its faculty, the NYU Environmental Health Sciences Program is one of the most comprehensive of its kind. Drawing upon state-of-the art methods, the research approaches used range from population studies to evaluations at the cellular and molecular levels.

The Department of Environmental Medicine has been designated as a university center of excellence in teaching and research by both the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of NIH and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Research facilities are located both at the NYU School of Medicine located in midtown Manhattan and at a specialized center at Sterling Forest (SF) in Tuxedo, NY, which is about 45 miles northwest of Manhattan. The latter location offers the dual benefits of rural/suburban living and proximity to New York City. Most of the formal coursework is offered in Manhattan, either at the NYU School of Medicine or at the NYU Washington Square (WSq) campus.