Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Division Description
The Division of Environmental Health Sciences within the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine supports research, teaching and service in environmental health. Environmental Health Sciences is a highly interdisciplinary field integrating perspectives from a wide range of research areas to address diverse environmental health problems. Faculty from the Division of Environmental Health Sciences collaborate on research on environmental health and work with students interested in the problems of environmental health. In particular, there is an MPH program with a concentration on Environmental Health. This MPH provides students with the skills needed to prevent, identify and address environmental public health problems.
Please see the following video describing the Environmental Health Sciences graduate programs in the department.
Faculty affiliated with the Division and information regarding their research are listed in the links below.
- Environmental Epidemiology
- Toxicology / Environmental and Occupational Health
- Environmental Engineering
- Environmental Chemistry
- Environmental Geography
- Environmental Law
- Other Departments
Students interested in training for a research career in environmental health should consider the MS and PhD programs in epidemiology. These programs can be customized to focus on research in environmental health. For those students who are more inclined toward public health practice, the MPH degree would be of interest. An overview of the MPH program is found on the MPH description page and on the concentration in Environmental Health page.
For more information about the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, please contact:
Dr. James Olson
Director, Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Phone: (716) 829-2319
Email: jolson@buffalo.edu
Environmental Epidemiology
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Matthew R. Bonner, PhD, MPH Associate Professor Director, Environmental Health MPH Program Department of Social and Preventive Medicine |
environmental and occupational epidemiology, cancer epidemiology, pesticides, air pollution, radon, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, phthalates |
| Richard V. Lee, MD Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Social and Preventive Medicine Chief, Division of Geographic Medicine Chief, Division of Maternal & Adolescent Medicine |
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| Lina Mu, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Social and Preventive Medicine |
environmental epidemiology, cancer epidemiology |
| Kirsten B. Moysich, PhD Professor Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and Department of Social and Preventive Medicine |
role of inflammation in ovarian cancer, radiation exposure and subsequent reproductive health indicators, environmental risk factors for breast cancer |
| Pavani Kalluri Ram, MD Assistant Professor Department of Social and Preventive Medicine |
child survival, handwashing, household water disinfection, global health, diarrheal diseases, acute respiratory infections, infectious disease epidemiology |
| Carole B. Rudra, PhD, MPH Research Assistant Professor Department of Social and Preventive Medicine |
ambient air pollution, preterm delivery, preeclampsia |
| William L. Scheider, PhD Research Assistant Professor Department of Social and Preventive Medicine |
relationship of food production system with the environment and health, control of food hazards or food safety, food security, environmental factors and Parkinson's disease |
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Toxicology / Environmental and Occupational Health
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Richard W. Browne, PhD Associate Professor Department of Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences, and Department of Social and Preventive Medicine |
clinical biochemistry of oxidative stress (OS) in human health and disease |
| James B. Knaak, PhD Research Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology |
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| Paul J. Kostyniak, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology , and Department of Social and Preventive Medicine Director, Toxicology Research Center |
toxicology of heavy metals, chlorinated organics, and antidote development |
| Marilyn E. Morris, PhD Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
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| James R. Olson, PhD Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Department of Social and Preventive Medicine Director, Division of Environmental Health Sciences Associate Director, Toxicology Research Center Associate Director, UB Environment and Society Institute |
assessing the health risks and biomarkers of exposure, effect and susceptibility to organophosphate (OP) pesticides and persistent halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons |
| Richard A. Rabin, PhD Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology |
neurotoxic, hepatotoxic interactions between alcohol use/abuse and exposure to chemicals used in industy, agriculture; various molecular, biochemical, cellular, behavioral techniques used in combination with model systems, including cells in culture and zebrafish, to assess interaction, determine underlying mechanisms for toxicity |
| Xuefeng Ren, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Social and Preventive Medicine |
study of environmental mutagens and carcinogens, mechanism of carcinogenesis, genetic/epigenetic biomarkers of environment toxicants, tumor suppressor genes, exposure biology and exposome |
| Jerome A. Roth, PhD Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology |
mechanism of action of manganese in producing neuronal cell death, resulting in a Parkinson-like syndrome |
| Harish Sikka, PhD Research Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology |
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| Aiming Yu, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
function of human cytochrome P450 (CYP2D6, CYP3A4) drug-metabolizing enzymes, ATP-binding cassette (ABC) membrane transporters (BCRP/ABCG2, MRP1/ABCC1) in cellular defense against xenobiotic drugs and environmental agents |
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Environmental Engineering
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Joseph F. Atkinson, PhD, PE Professor, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Director, Great Lakes Program |
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| James N. Jensen, PhD, MSPH Professor, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Director, Environmental Science Program |
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| Alan Rabideau, PhD Professor Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering |
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| John E. Van Benschoten, PhD Professor Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering |
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| A. Scott Weber, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Director, New York State Center for Hazardous Waste Management |
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Environmental Chemistry
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Diana S. Aga, PhD Associate Professor Department of Chemistry |
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| Luis A. Colón, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Chemistry |
chemical analysis at the micro/nano scales, bioanalytical chemistry, development of chromatographic materials, environmental chemistry, liquid separation techniques (capillary electrophoresis and liquid chromatography) |
| Joseph A. Gardella, PhD Professor Department of Chemistry |
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| Janet R. Morrow, PhD Professor and Associate Chair Department of Chemistry |
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| Troy D. Wood, PhD Associate Professor Department of Chemistry |
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Environmental Geography
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Jared Aldstadt, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Geography |
methods for understanding the spatial, spatiotemporal patterns of disease; using spatial analysis, geospatial technologies to improve sampling methods and to better characterize relationships between health and environmental factors |
| Ling Bian, PhD Professor Department of Geography |
geographic information science (GIS), individual-based spatially explicit epidemiological modeling and interoperability of environmental models |
| David M. Mark, PhD SUNY Distinguished Professor Department of Geography Director, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis |
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| Peter A. Rogerson, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Geography |
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| Eun-Hye Enki Yoo, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Geography |
fundamental issues in GIScience, spatial scale, uncertainty modeling, spatio-temporal modeling; public health and environmental modeling and spatial hedonic modeling, using geostatistics and spatial statistics |
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Environmental Law
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Errol E. Meidinger, JD, PhD Professor and Vice Dean for Research and Faculty Development University at Buffalo Law School |
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| R Nils Olsen, JD Professor and Vice Dean for Research and Faculty Development University at Buffalo Law School |
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Other Departments
| Name | Research Interests |
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| Randolph L. Carter, PhD Professor and Associate Chair Department of Biostatistics Director, Population Health Observatory |
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| Atif Awad, PhD Associate Professor Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences |
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| Heather Orom, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Health Behavior |
psychosocial adjustment, health behavior in communities affected by man-made or technological disasters; positive, negative effects of family, community dynamics on adjustment and exposure to asbestos; designing interventions to improve health, well-being in patients with asbestos-related disease |
| Donald W. Rowe, PhD Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Social and Preventive Medicine Director, Office of Public Health Practice and Public Health Liaison |
water, land use conflict and regulatory reform |
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