Paul Rosile, MPH, PhD, REHS

Associate Professor of Public Health Practice

Environmental Health Sciences

Paul Rosile, PhD, MPH, REHS

I practiced environmental public health for 29 years in local health departments and was involved with some significant improvements to our environment and health. I am passionate about bringing some of these experiences to the classroom — such as enforcing the new smoke-free Ohio law, involving communities in policymaking to improve their health and environment, enforcing the federal watershed protection laws and developing local and state policies to protect drinking water and recreational environments — to inspire a new generation of practitioners to make our local to global communities a healthier place to live, work and play.

Contact

1841 Neil Ave.
Cunz Hall
Columbus, OH 43210
Email: rosile.1@osu.edu
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Dr. Rosile's interests include the association of environmental pesticides with autism and birth outcomes, the relationship between outdoor bioaerosols and mental health, and human nutrition and health. Prior to his appointment at Ohio State in 2019 he was an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Science at Eastern Kentucky University. He has more than 30 years of applied experience in three Ohio public health departments — Franklin County, Seneca County and Delaware County. He is a registered environmental health specialist and a ServSafe food safety instructor and exam proctor. His applied specializations include food safety, arboviral disease control (particularly West Nile virus), water pollution control, biosolids land application and the effects on public health, and community participatory research using the NACCHO Community Environmental Health Assessment protocol. His academic  He spent nine years in the culinary industry in multiple Ohio restaurants as a cook, chef, manager and co-owner of a restaurant in Tiffin.