Environmental
Health Sciences

Research

Research in environmental health seeks to understand the effects of external influences on our health. Much of our scholarly work is done in collaboration across the university and with other institutions. Research and other funded projects in our division include:

  • Chemical properties in berries that may prevent oral cancer
  • Risk of illness and injury for emergency medical technicians
  • Effects of automobile traffic on human health
  • Center for Public Health Preparedness
  • Reemergence of schistosomiasis in developing countries
  • Effects of air pollution reduction in Beijing during the Summer Olympics

 

Research highlights

Project Title: Public engagement demonstration projects on pandemic influenza - Urban (initiative A)
Sponsor: Ohio Department of Health
Principal Investigator: Buckley, Timothy J

Project Title: Public engagement demonstration project on pandemic influenza - Rural (initiative B)
Sponsor: Ohio Department of Health
Principal Investigator: Buckley, Timothy J

Project Title: Exposure assessment tools to assess health impact of traffic
Sponsor: Morgan State University/US Environmental Protection Agency
Principal Investigator: Buckley, Timothy J

Project Title: Maternal and child health block grant five year needs assessment facilitation
Sponsor: Ohio Department of Health
Principal Investigator: Holtzhauer, Francis J

Project Title: Center for Public Health Preparedness
Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Principal Investigator:Holtzhauer, Francis J

Project Title: The socio-environmental determinants of schistosomiasis re-emergence
Sponsor: Univ of Calif at Berkeley/ National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
Principal Investigator: Liang, Song

Project Title: Exposure to air pollution in childhood increases susceptibility to diabetes/insulin resistance development in adulthood
Sponsor: Diabetes Action Research & Education Foundation
Principal Investigator: Sun, Qinghua

Project Title: Air pollution and microvascular dysfunction: Leukocyte-dependent NAD(P)H oxidase
Sponsor: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Principal Investigator: Sun, Qinghua

Project Title: Diesel exhaust particles on angiogenesis
Sponsor: Health Effects Institute
Principal Investigator: Sun, Qinghua

Project Title: Are anthocyanins necessary for oral cancer chemoprevention by berries?
Sponsor: National Cancer Institute
Principal Investigator: Weghorst, Christopher M

Project Title: Chemoprevention of oral cancer in Appalachia
Sponsor: American Cancer Society
Principal Investigator: Weghorst, Christopher M

Project Title: Food-based modulation of biomarkers in human tissues at high-risk for oral cancer
Sponsor: National Cancer Institute
Principal Investigator: Weghorst, Christopher M

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