Darryl B. Hood, PhD

Professor and Dean's Fellow for Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Excellence

Environmental Health Sciences

Darryl B. Hood, PhD

I spent the first 20 years of my career unraveling the molecular-level mechanisms in the central nervous system that give rise to behavioral learning and memory deficits, which are relevant to children and adolescents who live close to sources of environmental pollution. I’ll spend the next 20 years continuing my innovation in discovery as co-architect of the Public Health Exposome framework focused on determining if there are associations between the built, natural, physical and social environment and the disparate health outcomes in vulnerable populations.

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408 Cunz Hall
1841 Neil Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
Email: hood.188@osu.edu
Phone: 614-247-4941
Pronouns: he/him/his
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Darryl B. Hood, Ph.D. is a nationally recognized environmental public health neurotoxicologist and environmental justice expert at The Ohio State University. After serving on the faculty for more than 20 years at the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, Dr. Hood moved his laboratory in 2013 to Ohio State to continue his innovative work as co-architect of the novel Public Health Exposome framework with big-data-to-knowledge analytics. In Columbus, Dr. Hood has assembled a multidisciplinary, community-based research stakeholder team to address disparate health outcomes in environmental justice census tracts. His work focuses on determining if there are associations between the built, natural, physical and social environment and disparate health outcomes observed in vulnerable populations. The exposome framework is relevant to the disparities documented across the COVID-19 syndemic and in the public health impacts of climate change. Dr. Hood is currently applying the exposome framework and analytics as the principal investigator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency STAR “ENVISION” initiative, Co-principal investigator and Ohio State leader of the Columbus Climate Pollution Reduction grant, and co-principal investigator of a second U.S. EPA STAR “FLEETS for ALL” electrification initiative. Dr. Hood also serves on the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Society of Toxicology leadership council and on two National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Medicine committees.