Faculty
The University of Michigan Education and Research Center is fortunate to have many faculty members with strong research records that cover a broad spectrum of OH&S issues. A list of faculty with their areas of research expertise is shown below.
Industrial Hygiene
Stuart Batterman, PhD, MSCenter Director, IH Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Hazardous waste, health care waste, sustainable systems, life cycle analysis, human exposure and health risk assessment, and environmental epidemiology.
Gregg Grubb, C.I.H.IH Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Control of exposures to airborne contaminants.
Brad Joseph, PhD
Aurora Le, Ph.D., M.P.H., CPH, CSPIH Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Highly infectious disease mitigation and management, with a focus on training, education, prevention, and preparedness.
John Meeker, ScD, CIH, MSIH Core Faculty, OE Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Human exposure to environmental and occupational contaminants; reproductive and developmental epidemiology.
Richard L. Neitzel, PhD, MS, CIH, FAIHAIH Associate Director, PPRT Director
Research Interests: Application of new methodologies and technologies to exposure science and risk assessment; evaluation and management of health risks related to physical agents, safety hazards, and psychosocial factors; characterization of injury risk associated with noise exposure and transportation-related activities, with a focus on bicycling.
Bert Schiller, C.I.H.IH Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Work processes and ethical aspects of IH practice.
Edward Zellers, PhD, MSIH Director
Research Interests: Miniature air sampling instrumentation, personal protective equipment, characterizing and controlling human exposures to toxic chemicals.
Occupational Epidemiology
Sara Adar, ScD, MHSOE Core Faculty
Research Interests: Environmental epidemiology, exposure science for epidemiology, ambient air pollution, traffic-related pollutants, and human health effects of air pollution.
Kelly Bakulski, PhDOE Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Heavy metals exposure assessment, biomarkers of cumulative lead exposure, multiple
Alfred Franzblau, MD, MSOSE and OE Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Musculoskeletal disorders, chemical exposure evaluation, pulmonary disease and radiological techniques.
Alexis Handal, PhD, MPH
OE Core Faculty
Research Interests: Environmental and occupational epidemiology, reproductive epidemiology, and child health and development examined within social, political, and economic contexts and in global settings.
OE Core Faculty
Research Interests: Environmental and occupational epidemiology, reproductive epidemiology, and child health and development examined within social, political, and economic contexts and in global settings.
Siobán Harlow, PhDOE Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Reproductive health and aging, gynecologic helath osteoarthritis, disability and functioning in the midlife, obesity and metabolomics, export-led production, environmental impacts on reproductive function, human rights and gender-based violence, and occupational health in developing countries.
Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD, MS, MStatOE Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Gene-environment interactions, epidemiology, global health research.
Marie O’Neill, PhD, MSOE Director, ERC Deputy Director
Research Interests: Health effects of air pollution, temperature extremes and climate change (mortality, asthma, hospital admissions, and cardiovascular endpoints); environmental exposure assessment; and socio-economic influences on health.
Sung Kyun Park, ScD, MPHOE Associate Director
Research Interests: Environmental and molecular epidemiology of air pollution, heavy metals, bisphenol-A, and noise exposures; hearing loss, cardiovascular disease, age-related diseases, gene-environment and nutrient-environment interactions.
Thomas Robins, MD, MPHOE Core Faculty
Research Interests: Global issues in environmental and occupational health with particular emphasis on respiratory morbidity associated with workplace exposures (coal dust, aerosolized protein, metalworking fluids) and ambient pollution; exposure assessment; education of the causes and prevention methods of occupational illnesses and injuries to employers and employers.
Occupational Health Nursing
April Bigelow, PhD, ANP-BC, AGPCNP-BC, MSOHN Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Physical activity, smoking cessation, chronic disease management, & health promotion within vulnerable populations.
Christopher Friese, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN, MSOHN Associate Director
Research Interests: Prevention of hazardous drug exposure among nurses administering chemotherapy, quality of care, oncology nursing, health care policy, and the nursing workforce.
Elizabeth Kuzma, DNP, FNP-BCOHN Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Trauma-informed care, adolescent health, gender identity and sexuality, health policy and underserved populations, and professional advocacy.
Marjorie McCullagh, PhD, RN, APHN-BC,COHN-S, FAAOHN, FAAN
OHN Director
Research Interests: Prevalence and risk factors of hearing loss in farming and construction; hearing protector use among farmers and construction laborers.
Marie-Anne S. Rosemberg, PhD, RN, MNOHN Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Worker health, chronic disease outcomes, immigrant health, psychological stressors.
Patricia Strasser, PhD, RN,COHN-S/CM, FAAOHN, MSN
OHN Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders, occupational health systems and management.
Occupational Safety Engineering and Ergonomics
Thomas Armstrong, PhDOSE Core Faculty
Research Interests: Biomechanics, upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders, office ergonomics, and rehabilitation ergonomics.
Julia DiebolOSE Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Product and occupational safety, human factors engineering/ergonomics, development and evaluation of warnings and instructions, risk communication and risk perception, and environmental health communication.
Clive D’Souza, PhD, MSOSE Associate Director
Research Interests: Biomechanics, human motion, rehabilitation engineering, work measurement computer graphics programming, and data visualization and digital human modeling for ergonomics and environmental design.
Paul Frantz, PhDOSE Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Warning systems, product safety, safety management, and hazard communication.
Alfred Franzblau, MD, MSOSE and OE Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Musculoskeletal disorders, chemical exposure evaluation, pulmonary disease and radiological techniques.
Paul Green, PhDOSE Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Human factors/ergonomics issues that pertain to driver interaction with future automotive information systems, human computer interaction.
Yili Liu, PhDOSE Core Faculty
Research Interests: Cognitive modeling and ergonomics, neural modeling, cognitive psychology, engineering aesthetics, aesthetic ergonomics, cultural ergonomics and engineering, human factors, human-computer interaction.
Bernard Martin, PhDOSE Core Faculty
Research Interests: Work physiology, human motion simulation, vibration-induced alterations on sensory-motor systems, biomechanical stress, and long term muscle fatigue. View Spotlight
Matthew Reed, PhDOSE Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Anthropometry, biomechanics, human motion simulation and modeling, vehicle ergonomics, vehicle occupant crash protection.
Timothy Rhoades, PhD, PE, CPEOSE Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests: Product safety and safety management.
Nadine Sarter, PhD, MSOSE Director
Research Interests: Cognitive ergonomics, transportation safety, human-automation/robot interaction, the design of tactile and multimodal interfaces, human error/error management, attention and interruption management, the design of decision support systems.
Leia Stirling, PhDCore OSE Faculty
Research Interests: Computational dynamics, human-machine interaction, system automation, signal processing, human factors, and experimental biomechanics
Robert Werner, MDOSE Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests:Physical medicine, electromyography, pain management, and industrial rehabilitation.
Jessie Yang, PhDOSE Core Faculty
Research Interests: Human factors in healthcare, human-automation autonomy interaction, user experience design.
