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Learn about our featured COHSE Faculty Research at the University of Michigan!
Environmental and Occupational Health
Stuart Batterman, PhD,
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Research Interests: Hazardous waste, health care waste, sustainable systems, life cycle analysis, human exposure and health risk assessment, and environmental epidemiology.
Industrial Hygiene
Rick Neitzel, PhD, CIH, FAIHA
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Research Interests: Exposure science and risk assessment, health risks related to physical agents, safety hazards, and psychosocial factors, and characterization of injury risk associated with noise exposure and transportation-related activities, with a focus on bicycling. Industrial hygiene, occupational health, hearing loss, ototoxins, occupational injuries, environmental and occupational justice
John Meeker, ScD, CIH
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Research/Professional Interests: Exposure assessment and epidemiology studies investigating health impacts of pesticides, phthalates, bisphenol A, flame retardants, PCBs, tobacco smoke, and other agents. Focus on exposure biomarkers and environmental factors associated with reproductive health and child development.
Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology
Marie S. O’Neill, PhD,
Professor Epidemiology
- Research/Professional 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.
Alexis J. Handal, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor Epidemiology
- Research/Professional Interests: Environmental health, occupational health, maternal and child health, reproductive health, social determinants, health equity, community-based participatory research, mixed methods, capacity building
Occupational Health Nursing
Marie-Anne S. Rosemberg, PhD, MN, RN, FAAOHN
Associate Professor
- Research/Professional Interests: Health of service workers, chronic disease outcomes, immigrant health, and psychological stressors.
Occupational Safety Engineering
Leia Stirling, Ph.D
Associate Professor; Industrial and Operations Engineering; Robotics
- Research/Professional Interests: Biomechanics, decision support systems, human factors, human-autonomy/robot interaction, human motion, multimodal displays, work measurement, and wearable technology.
Oshin Tyagi, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Industrial & Operations Engineering
- Research/Professional Interests: Fatigue, Stress, Aging, Mind-Motor-Machine Interactions (Exoskeletons, Virtual Reality-based Trainings), Neuroergonomics, Neuromodulation, Occupational Biomechanics, Graph Theory for Neural Data.
Citing our Center Grant:
All publications, press releases, and other documents relevant to research funded by the center must include a specific acknowledgement of support, this statement may read:
“This publication was supported by the Grant Number, T42 OH008455, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health and Human Services.”
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