Olorunfemi Adetona, PhD
Associate Professor
Environmental Health Sciences
Biography
Dr. Adetona's research is directed towards understanding the linkage between environmental and occupational exposures to combustion air contaminants and adverse health effects. He studies these exposures in association with molecular and physiological responses to better understand the underlying mechanisms that contribute to cardiovascular and respiratory disease. He also studies potential agents for mitigating adverse health effects caused by particulate air pollution. Recent and ongoing research projects in Dr. Adetona's lab include studies to determine quantitative occupational (biomarker) exposure-response for cancer among structural firefighters, acute cardiovascular effects of wildland firefighting and in-vitro experiments to investigate the mitigation of particulate matter-induced adverse responses by omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids.
He currently teaches two courses. PUBHEHS 7365 (Environmental and Health Risk Assessment) is a graduate level course that is focused on the teaching of processes for evaluating the nature and probability of adverse effects due to chemical exposures, while PUBHEHS 7380 (Exposure Science Monitoring Techniques) is a laboratory-based class that is focused on methods and tools for the quantification of human exposures to physical, chemical and biological agents in the environment.
Education
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- University of Georgia, Department of Environmental Health Science
- Ph.D.
- Toxicology, University of Georgia
- MEM
- Environmental Management, Yale University
- MSc
- Geographic Information Systems, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- BSc
- Chemistry (Industrial Option), University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Research interests
Air Pollution, Environmental and Occupational Health, Inhalation Toxicology, Molecular Epidemiology, Environmental Risk Assessment
Select publications
- Olivo-Marston SE, Singh S, Hood R, Adetona O. 2024, Cancer odds among Ohio firefighters: data from the Ohio Cancer Incidence Surveillance System (OCISS) 1996-2019, BMJ Public Health, 2:e000471
- Demers PA, DeMarini DM, Fent KW, Glass DC, Hansen J, Adetona O, Andersen MHG, Freeman LEB, Caban-Martinez-AJ, Daniels RD, Driscoll TR, Goodrich JM, Graber JM, Kirkham TL, Kjaerheim K, Kriebel D, Long AS, Main LC, Oliveira M, Peters S, Teras LR, Watkins ER, Burgess JL, Stec AA, white PA, DeBono NL, Benbrahim-Tallaa L, de Conti A, El Ghissasi F, Grosse Y, Stayner LT, Suonio E, Viegas S, Wedekind R, Boucheron P, Hosseini B, Kim J, Zahed H, Mattock H, Madia F, Schubauer-Berigan MK. 2022. Carcinogenicity of occupational exposure as a firefighter, The Lancet Oncology, 23 (8), 985-986
- Lochotzki H, Williams KP, Colen CG, Adetona O, Tavares CB, Ginn GM, Haynes R, Im W, Bils T, Hood DB. 2022, A framework for interfacing and partnering with environmental justice communities as a prelude to human health and hazard identification in the vulnerable census tracts of Columbus, Ohio, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(21): 13846
- Wu C-M, Adetona O, Song C (C), 2021, Acute cardiovascular response of wildland firefighters to working at prescribed burns, International of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 237: 113827
- Wu C-M, Song C (C), Chartier R, Kremer J, Naeher L, Adetona O, 2021, Characterization of occupational smoke exposure among wildland firefighters in the Midwestern United States, Environmental Research, 193: 110541
- Adetona O, Ozoh OB, Oluseyi T, Uzoegwu Q, Odei J, Lucas M, 2020, An exploratory evaluation of the potential pulmonary, neurological and other health effects of chronic exposure to emissions from municipal solid waste fires at a large dumpsite in Olusosun, Lagos, Nigeria, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 27: 30885-30892
- Wu C-M, Adetona A, Song C (C), Naeher L, Adetona O, 2020, Measuring acute pulmonary responses to occupational wildland fire smoke exposure using exhaled breath condensate, Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health, 75 (2): 65-69
- Adetona AM, Martin WK, Warren SH, Hanley NM, Adetona O, Zhang J (J), Simpson C, Paulsen M, Rathbun S, Wang J-S, DeMarini D, Naeher LP, 2019, Urinary mutagenicity and other biomarkers of occupational smoke exposure of wildland firefighters and oxidative stress, Inhalation Toxicology, 31 (2): 73-87
- Sriram J, Adetona O, Orchard T, Wu C-M, Odei J, 2018, Mitigation of particulate matter-induced inflammation and vasoactivity in human vascular endothelial cells by omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15: 2293
- Ozoh OB, Okwor TJ, Adetona O, Akinkugbe AO, Amadi CE, Esezobor C, Adeyeye OO, Ojo O, Nwude VN, Mortimer K, 2018, Cooking fuels in Lagos, Nigeria: factors associated with household choice of kerosene or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15: 641