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. Socioeconomic status and diet-related health outcomes and obesity. The effect of diet composition on lipids.
Occupational environment, including biomarkers of exposure. Global burden of occupational exposures and outcomes. Novel methods of exposure assessment and analysis.
Children's environmental health. Behavioral toxicology/teratology.
Environmental health. Climate change and population health impacts. Public health mitigation and adaptation interventions. Occupational health and safety in the cannabis industry. Practice and community-based participatory research.
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.
Exposure assessment methodologies utilizing direct reading instrumentation and video exposure monitoring. Hazards in industry. Applied industrial hygiene. Exposure sciences.
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.
Developmental exposure to environmental chemicals. Epigenetic memory and nuclear receptor-signaling to modulate drug metabolism and transport during and beyond childhood. Gut microbiome, drug metabolism and obesity. Developmental reprogramming of gut microbiome by probiotics and antibiotics and modulating pediatric pharmacology and childhood obesity.
Food safety. Pests and their management. Wildlife issues. University-wide health and safety issues.
Health risks of and responses to global change, particularly climate change.
Public health emergency preparedness. Health impacts of disaster. Community resilience. Public health policy. Health care emergency preparedness. Public health practice.
Developmental toxicology. Risk assessment methodologies. Molecular mechanisms of metals and pesticides. Biological monitoring. Birth defects. Children's health. Drug metabolism. Food additives and contaminants. In vitro toxicology. Nanotechnology. Pediatric environmental health. Pesticides and children. Reproductive toxicology. Risk communication and management. Toxicogenomics.
Occupational injury. Neurological epidemiology. Outcomes research. Occupational and environmental medicine. Occupational disease statistics. Occupational and environmental epidemiology. Occupational exposure. Opiate use. Surveillance of occupational illnesses and injuries. Workers' compensation issues.