Research Team
We are always looking for talented students and post-doctoral fellows to join our team. Meet our current team...
Christopher D. Heaney, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Health and Engineering
Heaney earned his MS in environmental health microbiology and virology and his PhD in epidemiology at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2008. His dissertation, “Contact with Beach Sand and Risk of Illness,” examined the relationship between beach sand contact, densities of fecal microbial pollution in sand, and the risk of enteric and non-enteric illnesses.
His research focuses on environmentally-mediated impacts on health and well-being, specifically community land use, waste disposal, and food production practices, and integrates the academic disciplines of environmental microbiology, molecular biology, immunology, epidemiology, and community-based participatory research (CBPR).
Chris is the director of the Johns Hopkins Environmental Health Microbiology and Immunology Laboratory (EHMIL).
Research Team
- Nora Pisanic, PhD – Assistant Scientist
- Lindsay Avolio – PhD student
- Tyler Smith – PhD student
- Pranay Randad, PhD – Postdoc
- Katie Kurowski – PhD student
- Lauren Deanes – PhD student
Former JH-EHMIL Members
- Alexis Brown, PhD
- John Ticehurst, MD, Research Technologist
- Paul Sue, MD, Visiting Fellow, Infectious Diseases
- Vanessa Coffman, PhD
- Patrick Baron, PhD
- Amanda Krosche, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Tia S. Tumino, Summer Undergraduate Intern
- Carly Ordak, Research Technologist