Participating Faculty Members
(Alphabetically by Faculty Member)
Name/Degree(s)
Rank
Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s)
Role in Program
Research Interest
An, Steven, PhD
Associate
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Participating
Faculty
Role of oxidative stress in
asthma pathogenesis
Biswal, Shyam, PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Participating
Faculty
Nrf2-KEAP1 pathways,
experimental therapeutics
for COPD, therapeutic
resistance in cancer
Bressler, Joseph, PhD
Associate
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Participating
Faculty
Neurotoxicology: lead
effects on the blood-brain
barrier; signal transduction
Joint Appointment:
Kennedy Krieger Institute, Neurology
Breysse, Patrick, PhD,
MHS
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Executive
Environmental exposure
Committee Member assessment and
biomarkers
Exposure Sciences
Program
Participating
Faculty
Casero, Robert, PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Oncology
Joint Appointment:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Participating
Faculty
Mechanisms underlying
environmental and
infectious agents linked to
the initiation and
progression of cancer.
Name/Degree(s)
Coresh, Josef, MD, PhD,
MHS
Rank
Professor
Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Epidemiology
Role in Program
Research Interest
Participating
Faculty
Genetic and molecular
markers for cardiovascular
and kidney disease and
application of statistical
and epidemiologic
methodology
Participating
Faculty
Metabolism of metal ions
and oxygen radicals
Participating
Faculty
Spatial statistics and
geographic information
system (GIS) applications
for problems in
environmental health.
Participating
Faculty
Environmental factors
affecting asthma. Diet as a
risk factor for asthma.
Race-based health care
disparities in asthma.
Director, George W. Comstock Center for
Public Health Research and Prevention
Joint Appointment:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Biostatistics
Joint Appointment:
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
Director of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology
Culotta, Valeria, PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Joint Appointment:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Curriero, Frank, PhD
Associate
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Joint Appointment:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Biostatistics
Diette, Greg, MD, MHS
Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Joint Appointment:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Joint Appointment:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Epidemiology
Name/Degree(s)
Drummond-Barbosa,
Daniela, PhD
Rank
Associate
Professor
Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Role in Program
Research Interest
Participating
Faculty
Control of ovarian stem
cells and their
differentiating progeny by
diet, insulin, and other
systemic signals;
molecular mechanisms of
meiotic maturation.
Joint Appointment:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Evans, Janice, PhD
Associate
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Participating
Faculty
Mechanisms of sperm-egg
membrane binding and
fusion; oocyte maturation
Fairweather, DeLisa, PhD
Assistant
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Participating
Faculty
Mechanisms of
autoimmunity- role of
environmental agents and
toxins.
Participating
Faculty
Genetic and environmental
causes of neuropsychiatric
diseases
Participating
Faculty
Signal transduction of
cardiovascular toxicities in
vitro, in cardiomyocyte
culture and in vivo, using
rodent models.
Joint Appointment:
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine,
Department of Pathology, Division of
Immunology
Fallin, M. Danielle, PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Epidemiology
Joint Appointment:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Biostatistics
Gabrielson, Kathleen,
PhD, DVM
Associate
Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,
Comparative Medicine
Joint Appointment:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Name/Degree(s)
Rank
Groopman, John, PhD
Professor
Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Joint Appointment:
Professor of Oncology and Associate Director
for Cancer Prevention and Control, Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine and NCI
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Role in Program
Co-Director
(Post-doctoral
program)
Executive
Committee Member
Research Interest
Molecular epidemiology of
chemical carcinogen
exposures; cancer
prevention and control;
chemoprevention.
Guallar, Eliseo, MD, PhD,
MPH
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Participating
Health, Department of Epidemiology and Welch Faculty
Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and
Clinical Research
Population-based research
investigating the effects of
environmental exposures,
including trace elements
and metals on
cardiovascular disease.
Hartung, Thomas, MD,
PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Participating
Faculty
Toxicity testing to improve
public health and
systematic assessment of
tools for regulatory
toxicology.
Heaney, Christopher, PhD. Assistant
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Participating
Faculty
Methods of environmental
and occupational
epidemiologic data
analysis and communitybased participatory
research (CBPR). Kensler, Thomas, PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Participating
Faculty
Biochemical and molecular
mechanisms involved in
the induction of cancer by
chemicals to serve as a
basis for the prevention,
interruption or reversal of
these processes in man.
Lees, Peter, PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Participating
Faculty
Occupational and
environmental exposure
and disease.
Name/Degree(s)
Mitzner, Wayne, PhD
Rank
Professor
Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Role in Program
Participating
Faculty
Joint Appointments:
Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, The
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Anesthesiology, The Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine
Research Interest
Studies of animal models
dealing with the effects of
environmental air
pollutants on the lung.
Navas-Acien, Ana, MD,
PhD
Associate
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Participating
Faculty
Environmental
epidemiology,
cardiovascular
Joint Appointments:
Executive
epidemiology,
Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School Committee Member epidemiologic methods,
of Medicine
systematic reviews,
biomarkers, arsenic,
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins
cadmium, lead, metals,
Bloomberg School of Public Health
secondhand tobacco
smoke.
Nelson, William G., MD,
PhD
Professor
Director, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Oncology Center, Department of Medicine,
Participating
Faculty
Molecular toxicology and
research of prostate
cancer.
Participating
Faculty
Epidemiology of cancer of
the prostate and
colorectum; epidemiology
and basic science.
Joint Appointment:
School of Public Health, Department of
Environmental Health Sciences
Platz, Elizabeth, ScD, MS
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Department of Epidemiology
Director, Training Program in Cancer
Epidemiology, Prevention and Control
Name/Degree(s)
Schwab, Kellogg, PhD,
MSPH
Rank
Professor
Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Role in Program
Participating
Faculty
Environmental
microbiology and
engineering. Exposures to
environmental chemicals,
emerging contaminants
and pathogenic
microorganisms that
contribute to disease
pathobiology.
Participating
Faculty
Environmental causes of
cognitive decline;
biomarkers of exposure,
health risk, and
susceptibility; geneenvironment interaction,
particularly for lead
exposure.
Participating
Faculty
Epidemiologic study of
diabetes, kidney disease,
and other chronic
conditions.
Participating
Faculty
Pulmonary hypertension
owing to chronic hypoxia,
in patients with chronic
obstructive pulmonary
disease and in populations
living at high altitudes.
Director of the JHU Global Water Program
Schwartz, Brian, MD, MS
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Joint Appointments:
School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
School of Public Health, Department of
Epidemiology
Selvin, Elizabeth, PhD,
MPH
Associate
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Department of Epidemiology
Joint Appointments:
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Sham, James
Associate
Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, School of Medicine, Division
of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Joint Appointment:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Research Interest
Name/Degree(s)
Rank
Silbergeld, Ellen, PhD
Professor
Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Role in Program
Participating
Faculty
Epidemiological studies of
pathogen exposures in
industrial food animal
production.
Participating
Faculty
Biomarkers of carcinogen
exposure in etiological
studies of cancers of the
skin, colon, breast,
prostate, lung, and
esophagus. Measuring
toxicant metabolites and
molecular damage
Joint Appointments:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Health Policy and Management, and
Epidemiology
Strickland, Paul, PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Research Interest
Joint Appointment:
Department of Oncology, School of Medicine,
Johns Hopkins University
Tang, Wan-yee, PhD
Assistant
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Participating
Faculty
Environmental epigenetics
and epigenetic
epidemiology
Wang, Xiaobin, MD, ScD,
MSH
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Population, Family & Reproductive
Health, Zanvyl Krieger Chair in Child Health
and Development
Participating
Faculty
Molecular epidemiology,
environmental factors,
nutritional biomarkers,
genetic variants,
epigenetic alterations, and
their interactions in
complex human diseases
including reproductive and
pregnancy outcomes
Director, Center on the Early Life Origins of
Disease, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health in Baltimore
Joint Appointment:
Professor of Pediatrics, Department of
Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in
Baltimore
Name/Degree(s)
Wang, Zhibin, PhD
Rank
Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s)
Bloomberg
Assistant Sc Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Professor
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Role in Program
Participating
Faculty
Human epigenomes,
epigenetic/histone code,
transcriptional regulation,
HATs and HDACs,
environmental diseases,
next-generation
sequencing, ChIP-Seq
Genetic and environmental
determinants of asthma.
Wills-Karp, Marsha, PhD.
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Director
Yager, James, PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Environmental Health Sciences
Co-Director (Predoctoral Program)
Joint Appointment:
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, School of
Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Research Interest
Mechanisms of estrogen
carcinogenesis in breast
cancer; genetic
Executive
susceptibility to breast
Committee Member cancer.
MolecularToxicology Program
Yegnasubramanian,
Srinivasan, MD, PhD
Assistant
Professor
Oncology, Prostate Cancer, GU, Johns Hopkins Participating
School of Medicine
Faculty
Joint Appointment:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Department of Environmental Health
Sciences
Interplay between genetic
and epigenetic
mechanisms in cancer
initiation and progression
and the mechanisms by
which environmental
exposures and
inflammation can lead to
genetic and epigenetic
alterations resulting in
carcinogenesis and
disease progression.
Name/Degree(s)
Zirkin, Barry, PhD
Rank
Professor
Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Role in Program
Participating
Faculty
Research Interest
Effects of toxicants on the
male reproductive tract,
especially the molecular
regulation of Leydig cell
steroidogenic function, and
on the role oxidative stress
resulting from increased
production of reactive
oxygen and decreases in
cellular antioxidant
defenses.