Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice

Research & Service

The Department of Environmental & Occupational Health is located within the Rutgers School of Public Health on the New Brunswick Campus. The faculty's research interests include:

• Environmental effects on human health and human immunity
• Short-term and long-term exposure to ambient and indoor air pollution and fuel additives on human immunity
• Impact of genetic factors on an individual's susceptibility to environmental diseases
• Exposure and risk assessment on chemical and non-chemical stressors
• Climate change related exposure and health effects
• Personal exposure to ambient and indoor air pollutants
• Environmental epidemiology and human exposure assessment field studies
• Indoor air and environmental quality in schools, homes and day care
• Urban Outdoor Air Quality
• Children's Environmental Health

Current Research Projects

• R01 Five-Year Research Grant: Air Pollution Effects on Human Antimycobacterial Immunity
  • (a.k.a. “MexAir”) Supported by a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (R01ES020382) Click here for more information