Department of Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health faculty, staff, and their research interest:
My research explores the relationships of extreme weather, climate variability, and climate change on natural and human processes. The climate that we experience controls... |
Dr. Beseler’s research has primarily focused on the association of pesticide exposure on mental health in farmers and risk factors for substance use disorders... |
My research focuses extensively on interdisciplinary research projects aimed at combining inorganic nanomaterials with biological materials and living cells to create novel solutions to problems in public health... |
My research uses a mixture of wet-lab and computational methods, heavily focused in genomics-based research. Next-generation sequencing technologies can detect microbial agents, both known and unknown. |
Coordinator for the Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health (CS-CASH) which includes assisting the Center Director in planning, coordinating and monitoring the 23 projects funded by the Center. |
Babak is an environmental data scientist with an interdisciplinary engineering graduate degree. He works to use different methods and tools to help improve the understanding of the effects of climate on health. He values research that uses advanced analyses, while providing practical results for different interested groups. |
My research focuses on high-consequence infectious disease preparedness and management, with focus on infection prevention and control, high-level isolation, training and education, and health system preparedness... |
Environmental exposures affect every aspect of our physical and mental health, quality of life, and life expectancy. |
Research interests are public health law, emergency preparedness and response, health impacts of climate change, drought and extreme climate events, crisis standards of care and medical surge, and isolation and quarantine. |
John J. Lowe, PhD serves as the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Security Training and Education, Director of Research for the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit,... |
Research interests and training are in the field of toxicology. Past research areas have involved the use of cell and whole animal models to study mechanisms of liver toxicity of drugs and environmental chemicals... |
Dr. Nonnenmann is interested in using unique tools to characterize and control exposures to bioaerosols using engineering, administrative and personal protection solutions... |
Research interests include the following: agricultural and occupational health and safety; intervention effectiveness research; injury epidemiology; agricultural safety engineering; health and safety training, education, and outreach... |
Research centers around elucidating mechanisms of activation of carcinogens, identifying carcinogen-DNA adducts, and correlating adducts with oncogenic mutations. From our previous study of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)... |
Dr. Samuelson is an ethologist specializing in the assessment of animal behavior and cognition, animal welfare, and human-animal interactions. Her research focuses on the refinement of behavioral assessments to promote reproducibility and rigor while simultaneously improving animal welfare outcomes. |
Occupational safety and health for general industry, construction, and transportation; industrial engineering and organizational psychology; ergonomics in food processing, manufacturing... |
Human movement variability; biomechanics; motor control; occupational biomechanics; ergonomics; biomedical engineering; biotechnology; bioengineering; occupational health; movement disorders... |
Research is directed toward the understanding of airway epithelial cell function under physiologic and disease conditions. We are interested in the mechanistic signal transduction pathways that define ciliary beating, pro-inflammatory... |
Research interest is to improve the health of workers in agriculture and related industries through science based research, product development and outreach. My specific interests are in the research and development of sound ergonomic... |
Interdisciplinary chemical and biochemical approaches and techniques to focus on the etiology of human cancers, leukemia and Parkinson’s disease with a major focus to understand the mechanism of cancer initiating steps by natural... |
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Staff
Christine is an experienced professional with a diverse background in grant management, program development, and administrative coordination. Her academic and professional experiences has equipped her with strong analytical skills, financial acumen, and a deep understanding of research and development processes. |
Rachael is a graduate of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Applied Epidemiology Fellowship and holds an MPH in Epidemiology from University of South Florida. Her fellowship with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services focused on infectious diseases at the human-animal-environmental interface. |
Haiyue Li joined the College of Public Health as a statistician in August 2023. She is currently working on the impact of air quality and drought on human health and aims to employee satellite to achieve large-scale correlation analysis. Her field of expertise includes data science, statistics, machine learning, and human health. |
Provides administrative support to department faculty and coordinates the Environmental Health, Occupational Health and Toxicology graduate program. |
Siddhi works on water quality and health outcomes research. She is responsible for data engineering, visualizations, spatial data analysis and machine learning based modeling. Her research interest is integration of geo-information analytics and public health. |
Provides cost accounting, financial and analytical resources to the department. |
Works with faculty as an Administrative Associate. |
Research interests include health communication and health equity... |
Contact
Department of Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health Administrative: Rachel Maley UNMC Graduate Studies Office |