Members

Regina Santella, PhD
Director of the Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Biochemist

Areas of Research Focus: Cancer, Oncogenes, Chemical Hazards, Environmental Risk Factors, Molecular Epidemiology, Epigenetics, Gene-Environment Interactions, Genetic Susceptibility.
 

Deliang Tang, Md, DrPH
Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Molecular Epidemiologist

Areas of Research Focus: Child Health and Development, Low Birth Weight, Environmental Risk Factors, Gene-Environment Interactions, Global Health.

Diana Hernandez, PhD
Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Sociologist

Areas of Research Focus: Community Programs and Outreach, Disparities / Inequalities in Health, Minority Health, Social Factors in Health, Underserved Populations, Climate and Health, Environmental Risk Factors, Hunger/Food Insecurity, Poverty, Smoking (Tobacco), Urban Health.

Diane Re, PhD
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Neuroscientist

Areas of Research Focus: Neurological Disease/Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Chemical Hazards, Environmental Risk Factors, Environmental Toxins, Toxicity of Heavy Metals, Toxicology

Ezra Susser, MD, DrPH
Director of the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program and Professor of Epidemiology & Psychiatry
Psychiatric Epidemiologist

Areas of Research Focus: Child Health and Development, Autism, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Community Programs and Outreach, Discrimination/Bias, Disparities / Inequalities in Health, Homelessness, Immigrant Health, Social / Cultural Issues, Underserved Populations, Environmental Risk Factors, Lead Exposure, Molecular Epidemiology, Hunger/Food Insecurity, Nutrition, Epigenetics, Gene-Environment Interactions, Genomics, Global Health, Human Rights, Poverty, Rural Health, Health Systems Strengthening, Healthcare Providers, Healthcare Reform, History of Public Health, Perinatal Epidemiology, Prenatal/Perinatal Care, Mental Health, Schizophrenia, Life-course Approach to Prevention, Smoking (Tobacco).

Frederica Perera, PhD, DrPH
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Molecular Epidemiologist

Areas of Research Focus: Risk Assessment and Communication, Child Health and Development, Low Birth Weight, Asthma, Cancer, Neurological Disease / Disorders, Environmental Risk Factors, Gene-Environment Interactions, Genetic Susceptibility, Genetics, Global Health, Birth Outcomes.

Gary Miller, PhD
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Pharmacologist, Toxicologist, Molecular Neuroscientist

Areas of Research Focus: Alzheimer's Disease, Neurological Disease / Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Chemical Hazards, Environmental Risk Factors, Environmental Toxins, Exposomics, Toxicology, Gene-Environment Interactions, Addiction/Drug Abuse.

Hiroshi Mitsumoto, MD
Wesley J. Howe Professor of Neurology at CUIMC
Neurologist and Physician Scientist

Areas of Research Focus: ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), Lou Gehrig's Disease, Neuromuscular Disease, Oxidative stress & genetic-environmental factors.

Huichen Wu, DrPH
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Environmental Epidemiologist

Areas of Research Focus: DNA methylation markers of breast and liver cancer.

Jeanette Stingone, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Pediatric Environmental Epidemiologist

Areas of Research Focus: Data Science, Child Health and Development, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Pollution--Air/Ground/Water, Environmental Epidemiology, Birth Outcomes, Perinatal Epidemiology, Urban Health.

Jeanine D'Armiento, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine (in Anesthesiology, Physiology & Cellular Biophysics) at CUIMC
Physician Scientist, Molecular Medicine

Areas of Research Focus: Lung disease and MMP biology/animal models.
 

Jeffrey Shaman, PhD
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Director of the Climate and Health Program at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Geophysicist

Areas of Research Focus: Climate and Health, Emerging Infections, Epidemics, Infectious Disease.

Ying Wei, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Biostatistician

Areas of Research Focus: Biostatistics, Quantile regression, Longitudinal studies.
 

de8 [at] columbia.edu (David Evans, PhD)
Professor of Emeritus of Sociomedical Sciences (in Pediatrics) at CUIMC
Social Scientist

Areas of Research Focus: Asthma self-management education, community engagement.

Lewis Ziska, PhD
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Plant Physiologist

Areas of Research Focus: Climate change and rising carbon dioxide that address: agriculture and food security; invasive species; and plant biology and public health.

Linda Valeri, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Biostatistician

Areas of Research Focus: Data Science, Longitudinal Studies, Missing Data, Disparities / Inequalities in Health, Environmental Epidemiology, Mental Health, Schizophrenia.

 

Lynn Petukhova, PhD (New 2021)
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Genetic Epidemiologist

Areas of Research Focus: Rare skin diseases, Exome sequencing, Genetic polymorphisms, Translational research.
 

Matthew Neidell, PhD
Professor of Health Policy and Management
Health Economist

Areas of Research Focus: Research Design and Methods, Pollution--Air/Ground/Water, Climate and Health, Healthcare Economics.

Norman Kleiman, PhD

Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Molecular Biologist/Ophthalmology

Areas of Research Focus: Aging and Elderly, Cancer, Cancer--Chemical/Environmental Causes, Arsenic Exposure, Chemical Hazards, Environmental Risk Factors, Environmental Toxins, Radiation Exposure, Toxicity of Heavy Metals, Toxicology, Epigenetics, Gene-Environment Interactions, Genetic Susceptibility, Genetics, Genomics, Public Health Education.