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Environmental Health Sciences

Risk Sciences - Faculty

 

Olivier Jolliet, Ph.D (Director)
Environmental health risks and impacts, multi-media fate&exposure modelling, Indoor and outdoor intake fractions, Life Cycle risks of chemicals, pesticides, contaminated sites, waste and trade. Life Cycle Assessment of new technologies, corporate risks.

Niladri Basu, Ph.D.
Ecotoxicology, fish and wildlife sentinels, neurochemical biomarkers, ecosystem health, water quality and risk assessment of legacy and emerging pollutants

Alfred Franzblau, M.D.
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders; occupational neurological disease; occupational respiratory disease.

Jerome Nriagu, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Sources, fate and effects of toxic metals in the environment, environmental food contamination, water quality issues in the Great Lakes, history of lead poisoning, environmental justice and environmental health in developing countries.

Martin Philbert, Ph.D.
Experimental neuropathology, nitrocompound-induced encephalopathies, mitochondrial mechanisms in non-neuronal cell death, development of nano-optical chemical systems, and nanostructure-based imaging of tumors of the head and neck.

Rudy Richardson, Sc.D., D.A.B.T.
Neural injury with applications to neurodegenerative disease and stroke; biomarkers of neurotoxicant exposure, dysfunction and recovery; stereochemistry and structure-activity relationships; chemistry and neurotoxicity of organophosphorus.

Chuanwu Xi, Ph.D.
Drinking water quality, biofilm, biological processes, molecular microbial ecology, advanced bio-imaging, environmenal genomics and integrated biosensors for environmental monitoring.