A courtesy title extended only to a regular or research faculty member who holds a primary appointment in another department.
Faculty Directory and Research Interests
Lecturer
PhD (University of Washington)
Etiology of obesity associated disorders, Atherosclerosis and insulin resistance, Macrophage biology and inflammation, Atherosclerosis progression, Cardiovascular disease, Lipid and glucose metabolism, Diet-environment interaction and health outcomes, Socio-economic status diet-related health outcomes and obesity, and the effect of diet composition on lipids
Professor
PhD (University of Washington)
Children's Environmental Health. Behavioral Toxicology/Teratology.
Lecturer
PhD (University of Washington)
Environmental Health. Climate Change & Population Health Impacts. Public Health Mitigation and Adaptation Interventions. Occupational health and Safety: Cannabis Industry. Practice & Community-based Participatory Research.
Professor
PhD (University of California (Davis))
Reduced exposure to infectious diseases. Improved tuberculosis case finding and transmission control. Improved detection of pathogens in food and water. Improved understanding of infectious disease exposure and epidemiology.
Senior Lecturer and Assistant Chair
ScD (Harvard University), SM (Harvard University)
Exposure assessment methodologies utilizing direct reading instrumentation and video exposure monitoring.
Professor
PharmD (University of Milan (Italy))
Neurotoxicology. Molecular mechanisms of neurotoxicity. Biochemical markers of neurotoxicity. Children's health. Food additives and contaminants. Genetic susceptibility. In vitro toxicology. Pesticides and children. Neurotoxicity of diesel exhaust. Paraoxonase 1 and paraoxonase 2. Metals and oxidative stress. Gender-differences in oxidative stress and neurotoxicity. Air pollution and autism related disorders. Neurotoxicity of air pollution. Air pollution and neurodegenerative diseases.
Assistant Professor
PhD (University of Kansas Medical Center)
1) How developmental exposure to environmental chemicals reprograms the epigenetic memory and the nuclear receptor-signaling to modulate drug metabolism and transport during and beyond childhood; and 2) how the gut microbiome modulates the ontogeny of genes that are involved in drug metabolism and obesity, and how the developmental reprogramming of gut microbiome by probiotics and antibiotics modulate pediatric pharmacology and childhood obesity.
Professor
PhD (University of Kansas Medical Center)
Biochemical toxicology. Aflatoxin carcinogenesis. Glutathione-mediated biotransformation of toxic chemicals. Genetic susceptibility to environmental
carcinogens. 'Gene-environment' interactions.
carcinogens. 'Gene-environment' interactions.
Professor
PhD (University of Michigan), MPH (University of Michigan), MS (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Health risks of and responses to global change particularly climate change.
Lecturer
Public health emergency preparedness. Health impacts of disaster. Community resilience. Public health policy. Healthcare emergency preparedness. Public health practice.
Professor
PhD (Michigan State University)
Developmental toxicology. Risk assessment methodologies. Molecular mechanisms of metals and pesticides.
Professor and Associate Chair
PhD (University of California (Berkeley)), MPH (University of California (Berkeley))
Evaluation of environmental health risks in special populations, such as children, farm workers, and farm producers.
Research Professor
MD (George Washington University), MPH (University of California (Berkeley))
Occupational injury. Neurological epidemiology. Outcomes research.
Professor
PhD (Duke University), MEM (Duke University)
Aquatic Toxicology. Drug Metabolism. Pesticides. Emerging Contaminants. Metals. Olfactory injury. Superfund Sites. Toxicogenomics. Zebrafish. Transgenics. Oxidative stress. Mitochondrial injury. PBDEs.
Senior Lecturer
MSPH (University of Washington)
Construction safety. OSHA/WISHA Training Institute. Occupational health and safety. Hazardous waste site cleanup. UW-OSHA Region X. Train-the-Trainer. Workers compensation claims reduction.
Dean
Nanotoxicology. Lead poisoning. Climate change and health. The impacts of conservation programs and policies on indigenous populations. Community-based approaches to addressing environmental health problems.
Associate Professor
MD (Emory University), MPH (Emory University)
Climate change health impacts. Health care disaster risk management. Public health adaptation to climate change. Evidence-based public health. Early warning systems. Health effects of heat exposure. Health care operations.
Professor
PhD (University of California (Berkeley)), MS (University of California (Berkeley))
Ergonomics. Bioengineering. Whole body vibration. Computer-related disorders. Developing hardware and software technologies for assessing exposures to physical risk factors.
Professor
PhD (University of Washington)
Environmental chemistry. Detection and fate of chemical hazards in natural and man-made environments.
Professor
PhD (University of Washington), MD (University of Washington), MS (University of Washington)
Pediatric environmental health. Air pollution. Asthma. Pesticides. Global children's environmental health. Farmworker health. Community engaged research
Professor
MD (University of Michigan), MPH (University of Washington)
Environmental and occupational epidemiology. Health effects of diesel exhaust exposures. Environmental factors in cardiovascular and respiratory disease. Occupational asthma. Traffic-related air pollution and environmental health.
Professor
PhD (Michigan State University), MS (Michigan State University)
Glutathione metabolism. Analytical cytology. In vitro toxicology. Transgenic models. Toxicology of reactive oxygen/nitrogen species. Toxicogenomics. Nanotoxicology. Systems toxicology.
Professor
PhD (University of Washington), MSChE (University of Washington)
Cardiovascular disease and traffic.
Professor and Assistant Chair
PhD (University of North Carolina), MS (Indiana University), JD (University of Kansas)
Development of methods for detection of viruses and bacteria in water and food. Environmental surveillance for viruses. Market prevalence of foodborne pathogens. Recovery of bacterial and viruses from surfaces. Freshwater toxic cyanobacteria blooms. Viruses of anaerobic digesters. Microbiological quality of produce. Irrigation and produce wash water quality. Bioaerosol sampling. Quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA). Health and environmental co-benefits of adaptive responses to climate impacts. Infection control. Indicators of fecal contamination. Comparative adsorption of enteric viruses in soil and groundwater. Phage ecology. Survival and persistence of pathogenic microorganisms. Impact of CAFOs on microbiological quality of water, soil, and vegetation. Alternative methods of water and wastewater disinfection. Surface disinfection. Biosafety. Mathematical models for exposure assessment. Policy implications of infectious agents. Poliovirus eradication.
Associate Professor
PhD (University of Vermont), MS (Tufts University)
Impacts of public health, nutrition, and food policies and the policy process on health behaviors and health outcomes. Food systems, as it relates to food and nutrition policy. Understanding and improving the ways in which research gets to the public policy table. Exploring the Effects of Wage on the Culture of Health in Early Childhood Education Centers. Seattle Minimum Wage Study.
Professor
MD (University of Washington), MPH (Yale University)
Zoonotic infectious disease. Whole genome approach to infections. Diseases of animal workers. Microbiome sharing between humans, animals and the environment. Emerging infectious disease. Antimicrobial resistance. Animal sentinels of environmental health hazards. One Health. Noise and hearing loss.
Professor
PhD (University of Washington)
Environmental vancomycin resistant enterococci [VRE]. Environmental, clinical and occupational methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus [MRSA]. Antibiotic & mercury resistance genes in the environment. Bacterial genetics and gene exchange and comparing genomes using whole genome sequencing. Emerging and reemerging diseases. Molecular epidemiology. One Health and how the environment, humans and animals interact and share antibiotic resistant bacteria. Antibiotic resistance genes and diseases with work with birds, cows, primates, orca whales and river otters.
Professor
PhD (University of Wisconsin)
Atherogenesis. Diesel exhaust. Health effects of air pollution. Chlamydia pneumoniae vascular calcification. Chronic Kidney Disease. Cardiovascular Disease and traffic. Food additives & contaminants. Genetic susceptibility to toxins.
Professor
PhD (University of Michigan), MS (Harvard University)
Exposure assessments in the context of retrospective, cross-sectional and prospective epidemiology studies and health and safety needs of workers in precarious jobs. Characterization and control of welding fume exposures in shipbuilding and other industries. Investigations in the mining, construction, waste handling, and primary and secondary metal industries. Evaluating the effectiveness of organizational interventions to improve safety and health performance. Developing effective health and safety programs for contingent and immigrant workers.
Associate Professor
MS (University of California (Berkeley)), PhD (University of California (Berkeley))
Exposure assessment. Air pollution exposure measurement and modeling. Community noise measurement and modeling. Epidemiologic infectious disease transmission modeling. Mobile phone-based exposure science. Low-cost sensor systems.
Professor and Assistant Chair
PhD (University of Washington), MSc (Johns Hopkins University)
Air pollution health effects. Occupational epidemiological studies. Estimation of health effects from environmental and occupational exposures. Exposure modeling. Measurement error in health effects studies. Incorporating group information in epidemiologic studies.
Professor
PhD (University of British Columbia (Canada)), MSc (University of Waikato)
Air Pollution Monitoring and Modeling. Ambient Air Pollutants. Analytical Chemistry. Biological Monitoring, Biomarkers. Cholinesterase monitoring. Diesel Exhaust. Exposure Assessment. Indoor Air. Industrial Chemistry. Industrial Hygiene. Occupational Exposure. Pesticides. Polycyclic Hydrocarbons. Trace Contaminants. Wood Smoke.
Lecturer
Community food systems; Regional food systems; Food equity; Community ownership; Food systems analysis; School food; Community engaged scholarship
Associate Professor
MD (Yale University), MPH (Johns Hopkins University)
Health effects of exposure to hot conditions in working populations. Preventing adverse heat health effects and improving biological adaptation to heat.
Professor
MD (University of Colorado), MSc (Harvard University)
Health effects of air pollution. Occupational lung disease.
Professor
PhD (University of Washington), MS (Wuhan University (China))
Apoptosis. Neurogenesis. Adult neurogenesis. Children's health. Developmental toxicology. Genetic susceptibility to toxins. Nervous system toxicity. Neurotoxicology. Neurobiology. Olfaction and cognition. Heavy metals. Lead, cadmium, gene-environment interactions. GXE. Alzheimer’s disease. Cognitive decline. Senile dementia. Sex differences on disease susceptibility. Window of susceptibility.
Professor and Chair
PhD (University of California (Berkeley)), MS (University of California (Berkeley))
Optical remote sensing of chemicals in the environment. Physical agents in the workplace: noise, vibration, non-ionizing radiation.
ADJUNCT FACULTY
CLINICAL FACULTY
A courtesy title conferred at the appropriate professorial rank, usually to someone with a primary appointment with an outside agency or nonacademic unit of the University, or in private practice. Clinical faculty make substantial contributions to University programs by working with faculty.
AFFILIATE FACULTY
Requires qualifications comparable to those for appointment to the corresponding professorial rank. These appointments recognize the professional contributions of those whose principal employment responsibilities lie outside the colleges or schools of the University. Affiliate faculty make substantial contributions to University programs by working with faculty.
EMERITUS FACULTY
An appointment given to a retiring faculty member whose scholarly, teaching or service records has been meritorious. Usually at least 10 years prior service on the faculty.