Members of the Faculty
Jun-Yan Hong, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., UMDNJ-
New Jersey Medical School; M.S., Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology (China)
Impact of genetic factors on an individual's susceptibility to
environmental diseases
Koshy Koshy, Instructor of
Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., Rutgers
Developing
and accessing training programs in occupational safety and health for hard-to-reach workers and workers in high-hazard industries; building disaster
preparedness
competencies
Jaime Madrigano, Assistant
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Sc.D.,
Harvard School of
Public Health; M.P.H., UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Environmental health sciences; environmental
epidemiology
Qingyu Meng, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational
Health; Ph.D., M.S., Rutgers; M.S., Chinese
Academy of Sciences
Exposure and risk assessment on chemical and nonchemical stressors;
climate change
related exposure and health effects; personal exposure to ambient and indoor air
pollutants
Stephan Schwander, Associate
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health;
Chair; Ph.D., Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany); M.D., Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Germany)
Human antimycobacterial immunity;
human lung immunology during mycobacteriumtuberculosis
infection and disease; effects of particulate matter on antimycobacterial
immunity
Derek Shendell, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational
Health; D.Env.,
California School of
Public Health (Los Angeles); M.P.H., Yale School of Medicine
Environmental public health sciences and services; environmental epidemiology and human exposure
assessment field studies; indoor air and environmental quality in schools,
homes,
and day care; urban outdoor air quality (United States, Latin America, China,
Japan, Nigeria); children's environmental health
Associated Members of the Faculty
Joanna Burger,
Professor of
Environmental and Occupational Health; primary at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences; Ph.D., Minnesota; M.S.,
Cornell
Risk perception and communication for fish consumption and other
wild-caught foods;
effects of lead, mercury, and cadmium on neurological
development and behavior
Nancy Fielder,
Professor of
Environmental and Occupational Health; primary at Rutgers
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Ph.D., Bowling Green State
Human health effects of stress and neurotoxicants; controlled
chemical exposure studies
Dina Fonseca, Associate
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; primary at
Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania
Molecular epidemiology; population genetics; hybridization and
evolution of disease transmission; insecticide resistance, ecology and
evolution of introduced mosquito disease vectors.
Michael A. Gallo,
Professor of
Environmental and Occupational Health; primary at Rutgers
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Ph.D., Albany
Medical College
Metabolism of xenobiotics; hormone carcinogenesis; receptor
action; environmental
risk assessment
Michael Gochfeld, Professor of Environmental and Occupational
Health; primary at Rutgers
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine;
Ph.D., CUNY
Susceptibility; application of medical surveillance;
biomonitoring of workers and
communities exposed to hazardous wastes;
environmental and ecological risk assessment
Robert M. Goodman,
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; primary at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Cornell
Environmental microbiology
Howard M. Kipen, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health;
primary at
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; M.D., California
(San Francisco); M.P.H., Columbia
Controlled exposure studies of air pollutants; inflammation and
cardiovascular disease
models; biopsychosocial models of disease; World Trade
Center symptomology; Gulf
War Syndrome
Robert Laumbach,
Assistant Professor
of Environmental and Occupational Health;
primary at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; M.D., UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School; M.P.H., Columbia-Mailman School of
Public Health
Occupational and environmental respiratory diseases; medically-unexplained
illness
Paul J. Lioy, Professor of Environmental
and Occupational Health; primary at Rutgers
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Ph.D., Rutgers; M.S., Auburn; M.S., Rutgers
Human exposure to toxic substances from single and multiple media;
health effects
of ozone; bioavailability and hazardous wastes
Gediminas Mainelis, Assistant Professor of Environmental and
Occupational Health;
primary at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; P.h.D, Cincinnati
Bioaerosols research
Jason R. Richardson, Associate
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health;
primary at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Ph.D.,
Mississippi State
Pesticide toxicology and human health effects
Mark Robson, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health;
primary at
Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Rutgers;
M.P.H., UMDNJ-School of Public Health; M.S., Rutgers
Pesticide use, policy, regulation; alternative pest control
Iris G. Udasin, Associate Professor of Environmental and
Occupational Health; primary at
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; M.D., SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Blood-borne pathogens; indoor air quality; hazardous waste
workers; violence in the
workplace
Clifford Weisel, Professor of Environmental and Occupational
Health; primary at Rutgers
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Ph.D., M.S., Rhode Island
Human exposure to and pharmacokinetics of environmental
contaminants
Adjunct Members of the Faculty
Brian Buckley, Adjunct
Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and
Executive
Director, Laboratories and Facilities, Environmental and Occupational Health
Sciences Institute; Ph.D., North Carolina
State
Extraction techniques for analysis of
contaminants in water; analytical procedures for environmental contaminants
Gary J. Centifonti, Adjunct Instructor of Environmental and
Occupational Health and Research Scientist, New Jersey Department of Health; M.S.,
Drexel
Indoor environmental health issues; lead-based paint related
research and asbestos-related research
John S. Dobi,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., Massachusetts;
M.S., Rutgers
Ecological and environmental risk assessment; PCBs water/sediment
contamination; bioaccumulation factors impacting ecological and human risk
Fred Ellerbusch,
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Solvay; Ph.D., M.P.H., UMDNJ-School of Public Health; M.S., New Jersey Institute of Technology
Urban and
environmental/occupation health, policy, and management; Brownfields
revitalization and hazardous waste management
Adam M. Finkel, Adjunct Professor of Environmental and
Occupational Health; Sc.D., Harvard School of Public Health; M.P.P., Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Quantitative risk assessment; human susceptibility to
carcinogenesis; occupational and environmental regulation and enforcement
Gary Garetano, Adjunct Assistant
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and
Assistant Director, Hudson Regional Health
Commission; Ph.D., UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Environmental health
Drew A. Harris,
Adjunct Assistant
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health;
D.P.M., Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine; M.P.H., UMDNJ-School
of Public Health
Public health
preparedness, policy, and advocacy
Branden B. Johnson, Adjunct Professor of Environmental and Occupational
Health and Research Scientist, Decision Research; Ph.D., Clark
Risk perception and communication
Daniel Lefkowitz, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental and
Occupational Health and Research Scientist, New Jersey Department of Health; Ph.D., M.S., Rutgers
Occupational health surveillance with focus on hazard surveillance
and intervention
Leroy Meyer,
Adjunct Instructor
of Environmental and Occupational Health and Section Chief/Research Scientist, Pesticide
Control Program, New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection (Retired); M.S., Rutgers
Environmental contamination with pesticides; tracking of pesticide
exposures and education in areas of pesticide poisoning
Sandra N. Mohr, Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental and
Occupational Health and Medical Director,
New York Life Insurance Co.; M.D., Kansas
School of Medicine; M.P.H.,
Yale School of Medicine
Occupational and environmental health research; environmental
epidemiology and the effects of environmental chemicals on human health
Omowunmi Y.O. Osinubi, Adjunct Associate Professor of
Environmental and Occupational Health;
M.D., Ibadan (Nigeria); M.Sc., CUNY
Smoking cessation; occupational health
Douglas Pastore, Adjunct Instructor of Environmental and
Occupational Health and Director,
Safety,
Health and Environment, L'Oreal USA; M.S.,
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Occupational health and safety; industrial
hygiene
Edward Sargent, Adjunct Professor of Environmental and
Occupational Health and Retired
Senior Director, Toxicology, Merck & Co.; Ph.D.,
New York; M.P.H., Yale
Environmental risk assessment; pharmaceuticals in the environment;
regular toxicology of pharmaceutical and industrial chemicals
Alan Stern, Adjunct Associate
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Chief, Bureau for Risk
Analysis, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection; Dr.P.H., Columbia School of Public Health
Environmental toxicology; human health
risk assessment; mercury, chromium, quantitative dose response modeling
Stella Tsai, Adjunct Assistant
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Research Scientist, New Jersey
Department of Health; Ph.D., UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Microbial exposure assessment
Alvaro Osornio Vargas, Adjunct Professor of Environmental and
Occupational Health; Ph.D., Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Global public health; air pollution research
Eric Vowinkel, Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental and
Occupational Health and Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey; Ph.D., Rutgers
Source water quality; drinking water quality
Charles J. Weschler, Adjunct
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; primary at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Ph.D., M.S., Chicago
Air pollution and indoor environmental quality
Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, Adjunct Professor of Environmental and
Occupational Health;
primary at Duke;
Ph.D., UMDNJ/Rutgers; M.S., Rutgers; M.S., Peking (China)
Air pollution; exposure measurement and assessment; health effects
analysis and risk
assessment; international environmental health studies
