Faculty

Louis Fazen, MPH, PhD, MD, is an occupational medicine physician interested in preventing occupational illness and enabling workers to achieve better health outcomes.

Using the concept of stochastic and global optimization, Mahdi Mehrtash addresses power and energy system problems such as power system expansion planning, integration of renewable energy systems, zero-energy buildings, and future electricity markets.

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

Marsha Wills-Karp, PhD, researches the environmental determinants of allergic and immune diseases across the lifespan and chairs the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering.

Martin Bloem, MD, PhD, has devoted his career to improving the effectiveness of public health and nutrition programs through applied research, focusing particularly on low- and middle-income countries.

Martin Stephens, PhD, promotes new methods of biomedical research and testing that are more relevant to human health than are traditional animal-based approaches.

Matthew Aubourg, MSPH '23, uses scientific and technical expertise to address community-identified environmental health and justice concerns in rural and urban communities.

Megan Latshaw, PhD ’05, MHS ’01, translates environmental health science to policy and practice, with a focus on designing communities where the healthy choice is the easy choice.

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

Michael Montague, PhD, studies the biosecurity implications of emerging biotechnologies, emphasizing deliberate hostile scenarios that target agriculture and industry.

Natalie Exum, PhD '16, MS, is bridging the gap between public health and sanitary engineering to understand how environmental infectious pathogens are transmitted to humans.

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.