EHE Faculty Recognized as Exceptional Teachers

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has a long tradition and a firm commitment to instruction of the highest quality. Excellence in teaching stimulates intellectual curiosity in students and prepares them to address the most challenging public health problems facing the world today. Each term, students recognize through their course evaluations the faculty who have contributed significantly to the intellectual life of the School through their excellence in teaching.

Criteria

Honorees are those instructors who received an average score of 3.6 or above (on a four-point scale) in both the Overall Course and Overall Instructor categories of their student course evaluations with a response rate of 70% or higher.

The School expresses deep appreciation and congratulations to the following faculty members who achieved teaching excellence in the academic year 2024–2025. 

2024–2025 ACADEMIC YEAR - Third Term

Matthew Aubourg, Research Associate, Environmental Health and Engineering
Course: Community-Driven Epidemiology and Environmental Justice

 Shyam S. Biswal, Professor, Environmental Health and Engineering
Course: Climate Change and Public Health

 Martin Bloem, Professor, Environmental Health and Engineering / International Health (Joint)
Course: Climate Change and Public Health

 Mary Fox,,Associate Practice Professor, Health Policy and Management / Environmental Health and Engineering (Joint)
Course: Methods in Quantitative Risk Assessment

Christopher Heaney, Associate Professor, Environmental Health and Engineering / Epidemiology (Joint) / International Health (Joint)
Course: Community-Driven Epidemiology and Environmental Justice

 Kathrin Herrmann, Senior Associate, Environmental Health and Engineering
Course: Refinement of Animal Experimentation: Essential to Reduce Animal Suffering and Enhance Scientific Rigor

 David Love, Research Professor, Environmental Health and Engineering
Course: Seafood and Public Health: Global Trade, Nutrition, and the Environment

Liz Nussbaumer, Senior Program Officer, Center for a Livable Future
Course: Seafood and Public Health: Global Trade, Nutrition, and the Environment

Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Professor, Environmental Health and Engineering
Courses: Exposure Assessment Techniques for Health Risk Management; Occupational Health Management

Caitlin Rivers, Associate Professor, Environmental Health and Engineering
Course: Infectious Disease Threats to Global Health Security

Kellogg Schwab, Professor, Environmental Health and Engineering
Course: Food- and Water-Borne Diseases

Lena Smirnova, Assistant Professor, Environmental Health and Engineering
Course: Toxicology 21: Scientific Applications

Erin Sorrell, Associate Professor, Environmental Health and Engineering
Course: Infectious Disease and Fragile Settings

Crystal Watson, Associate Professor, Environmental Health and Engineering
Course: Infectious Disease Threats to Global Health Security

Environmental Health and Engineering is a cross-divisional department spanning the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Whiting School of Engineering. This hybrid department is uniquely designed to lead pioneering research and prepare the next generation of scholars to solve critical and complex issues at the interface of public health and engineering. Learn more about our programs.