Research Interests : Division of Environmental Health Sciences : University of Minnesota

Name	Research Interests
John Adgate Associate Professor	Exposure assessment, risk assessment, risk communication, environmental health policy; children's multi-pathway exposures to pesticides; personal exposure to airborne particulate matter and volatile organic chemicals, particularly in homes and schools; low cost methods for lead poisoning prevention. » current research
Bruce Alexander Associate Professor	Occupational and environmental epidemiology with specific reference to occupational determinants of reproductive health, cancer, traumatic injury, and the use of biological markers in epidemiological research. » current research
Paul Allwood Assistant Professor	Regulatory and epidemiologic aspects of environmental and occupational health.
Lisa Brosseau Associate Professor	Performance of respiratory protection devices; aerosol measurement; filtration; employee health and safety in small businesses, intervention effectiveness studies. » current research
Timothy Church Professor	Design, management, and analysis of screening and prevention studies in cancer and cardiovascular disease; model uncertainty and mathematical representations of causal models. » current research
Susan G. Gerberich Professor	Population-based research focuses on injury epidemiology and control: injuries, in general; work-related, including agricultural injuries; brain and spinal cord injuries; violence; drug/alcohol use and injury consequences; sports injuries; and transportation-related injuries. » current training programs
Ian Greaves Associate Professor	Lung disorders caused by airborne exposures in the workplace and the general environment, agricultural health and safety issues, health and safety problems of small businesses, workers' compensation, and international environmental and occupational health issues. » current training programs
Craig Hedberg Professor	Food borne disease surveillance, surveillance of environmental factors associated with foodborne disease, the role of food workers in the occurrence of food borne diseases, use of epidemiologic methods in outbreak investigations and disease control, environmental contamination with enteric pathogens. » current research
Julie Jacko Professor	Human-computer interaction, universal access to electronic information technologies, and technological aspects of health care delivery.
William Lohman Assistant Professor	Occupational medicine, workers' compensation policies, health surveillance of working populations, respiratory health.
George Maldonado Associate Professor	Epidemiologic methodology.
Jeffrey Mandel Associate Professor	Occupational cancer risk from low-dose exposures Exposure to persistent materials and severity of chronic diseases Exposure-disease relationships. » current research
Patricia McGovern Professor	Occupational health policy and program evaluation including women's use of family medical leave policies in association with their postpartum health, workers' compliance with universal precautions, and workplace violence prevention and control efforts. » current research
Nancy Nachreiner Assistant Professor	Work-related violence and work-related injuries, occupational health, cancer. » current research
Debra Olson Instructor	Public health preparedness, occupational health nursing, injury prevention and control, competency based learning, public health program development and agricultural safety and health. Particular interests include innovative teaching methods that employ new technologies and involve distance learning.
Lisa Peterson Professor	Mechanisms of chemical carcinogenesis through the utilization of bio-organic and analytical chemical techniques; xenobiotic metabolism; characterization of unstable metabolic intermediates; DNA repair. » current research
Gurumurthy Ramachandran Professor	Areas of interest include occupational and ambient exposure assessment, Bayesian methods in retrospective exposure assessment, exposure modeling, inhalation dosimetry for mixed exposures, aerosol measurements, theoretical and experimental studies on design of aerosol samplers, and inversion methodology. » current research
Peter Raynor Assistant Professor	Air filtration; air pollution control; measurement of volatile aerosols; metalworking fluids; aerosol physics; biological aerosols; exposure assessment. » current research
Matt Simcik Associate Professor	Processes governing fate and transport of organic contaminants in the atmosphere and their effects on aquatic systems and human health, including source apportionment, gas-particle partitioning, air-water and air-terrestrial exchange. » current research
Randall Singer Associate Professor	Infectious diseases in human and animal populations; antibiotic resistance.
Deborah Swackhamer Professor	Chemical and biological processes affecting toxic organic contaminants in the aquatic environment; bioaccumulation of toxic chemicals in foodwebs; endocrine disrupters; ecological risk assessment; pollution issues in the Great Lakes.
William Toscano, Jr. Professor/Division Head	Gene environment interactions; environmental signals and sensors; endocrine disruption and hormone active agents in the environment; effects of environment on fetal development; global environmental health; public health genomics. » current research
Elizabeth Wattenberg Associate Professor	Molecular mechanisms by which different types of carcinogenic agents interfere with the signaling pathways that control cell fate and function; how environmental chemicals affect carcinogenesis. » current research