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Topic: Environmental health

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Nil Basu, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Assistant Professor in Environmental Health Sciences
Phone: (734) 764-9490 E-mail: niladri@umich.edu
Faculty Profile

  • Environmental toxicologist, interested in the risk assessment of aquatic pollutants (focus on mercury), development of neurochemical biomarkers and environmental neurotoxicology, and the use of fish and wildlife as sentinels of human and environmental health hazards.      MORE

Stuart Batterman, Ph.D., M.S.
Professor in Environmental Health Sciences
Phone: (734) 763-2417 E-mail: stuartb@umich.edu
Faculty Profile

  • Research and teaching interests address environmental impact assessment, human exposure and health risk assessment, and environmental management.     MORE

Alfred Franzblau, MD
Professor in Environmental Health Sciences
Phone: (734) 936-0758 E-mail: afranz@umich.edu
Faculty Profile

  • Research focuses on work-related musculoskeletal disorders, biological monitoring of chemical exposures, occupational neurological disease, and occupational respiratory disease.      MORE

Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD
Professor and Chair in Environmental Health Sciences
Phone: (734) 764-3188 E-mail: howardhu@umich.edu
Faculty Profile

  • Co-directs the Michigan-Harvard Metals Epidemiology Research Group, which studies the contribution of metals exposure and genetics to the causation of chronic diseases in adults and impaired development in children.      MORE

Gerald Keeler, PhD
Professor in Environmental Health Sciences
Phone: (734) 936-1836 E-mail: jkeeler@umich.edu
Faculty Profile

  • Ongoing research measures and analyzes pollutants and trace elements such as mercury in air and water, to help assess impact on human health and the environment.      MORE

John Meeker, Sc.D., M.S., B.S.
Assistant Professor in Environmental Health Sciences
Phone: (734) 764-7184 E-mail: meekerj@umich.edu
Faculty Profile

  • Focuses on defining sources, magnitudes, and consequences of human exposure to environmental and occupational contaminants, as well as identifying and evaluating strategies to control harmful exposures.      MORE

Hal Morgenstern, PhD
Professor and Chair in Epidemiology
Phone: (734) 764-5435 E-mail: halm@umich.edu
Faculty Profile

  • Studies musculoskeletal conditions, cancers, neuropsychiatric disorders, nonintentional injuries, cardiovascular disease, psychosocial aspects of disease, occupational and environmental health, research methods, and access to and quality of health care.     MORE

Jerome Nriagu, PhD, DSc
Professor in Environmental Health Services
Phone: (734) 936-0706 E-mail: jnriagu@umich.edu
Faculty Profile

  • Specializes in the study of toxic metals and lead poisoning from smelting and lead products, resulting in food and environmental contamination.     MORE

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A Global Odyssey: SPH Alum Larry Brilliant Heads Google.org

Future Findings--What's in the Water We Drink?

Future Findings--Tobacco, Pesticides, and Pregnancy Outcomes

Polar Sunrise: Mercury in the Arctic. SPH professor of Environmental Health Sciences Jerry Keeler explains how signs of global warming are showing up in the Arctic Circle.

Future Findings-- Risk Reduction and the Environment

Student Snapshot-- Stephanie Ross

Future Findings-- Human Exposure to Dioxins

Future Findings-- The Health Costs of Economic Growth (PDF)

Quantifying Danger: New SPH Risk Science and Communication Center may change the way we think about potential hazards. (PDF).

Future Findings-- Breast Cancer and the Environment : What Risks Exist? (PDF, page 38)

Snapshot-- Darrah Sleeth

Future Findings-- Research Steers South Africa Toward Environmental Change (PDF, page 44)

Future Findings: Better Neighborhoods, Better Health (PDF, page 3).

Student Snapshot-- Dang Nguyen (PDF, page 48)

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