Faculty

Sara Lupolt, PhD ’21, MPH, works to improve the art and practice of exposure assessment while tackling a wide variety of environmental health and food system challenges.

Alexandra Maertens, PhD ‘14, uses machine learning to study how chemicals perturb cellular signaling and cause toxicity, and how to design safer chemicals.

Joseph Bressler, PhD, studies how environmental pollutants affect neurodevelopment with specific interests in autism and fetal alcohol syndrome.

Norma Kanarek, PhD, is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on the health of populations, patient participation in clinical trials, the use of preventive health services, and cancer etiology.

Gigi Kwik Gronvall, PhD '00, is an immunologist by training, who has written extensively about synthetic biology, preparations for bioterrorism, and the contested origin of SARS-CoV-2.

Roni Neff, PhD '06, ScM, researches ways to cut food waste and address climate change through more resilient, equitable, and healthy food systems.

Keeve Nachman, PhD ’06, MHS ’01, aims to generate the scientific evidence needed to support decisions that mitigate human exposures to chemical and microbial hazards associated with food production.

Christopher Heaney, PhD, MS, and his team, developed a saliva-based test that accurately detects the presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 from small samples of saliva.

Meghan Davis, DVM, PhD '12, MPH '08, studies the interface of bacteria and hosts to reduce microbe-mediated diseases in people and animals.

Mark Kohr, PhD, researches how male and female hearts differ in response to injury and environmental factors.

Jaime Madrigano, ScD, MPH, does work that emphasizes environmental justice and aims to reduce population-wide environmental health disparities by producing results to inform equitable policies.

Ciaran, an associate professor of landscape hydrology and Russell Croft Faculty Scholar, studies how the structure of landscapes controls the movement of water from rainfall to streams, and how that structure evolves over time.