Environmental Health Sciences

Our Division of Environmental Health Science improves the health of individuals and communities by conducting rigorous and collaborative research to identify risks, reduce hazards, and inform public health policies.

In addition, the division provides outstanding interdisciplinary education to prepare future environmental health practitioners and leaders.

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Bruce Alexander
Bruce H. Alexander, PhD
Professor and Division Head
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health
susan arnold
Susan Arnold, PhD, CIH
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Beth Baker
Beth Baker, MD, MPH
Adjunct Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures
Silvia Balbo
Silvia Balbo, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Substance Use
Jeff Bender
Jeff Bender, DVM, MS
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases
Jesse Berman
Jesse Berman, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Dana Carroll
Dana Carroll, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Substance Use
Melanie Firestone
Melanie Firestone, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases
Linda Frizzell
Linda Bane Frizzell, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Craig Hedberg
Craig W. Hedberg, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Infectious Diseases
Kyle Hill
Kyle X. Hill, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Mental Health and Cognition ◦ Substance Use
Tran Huynh
Trân Huỳnh, PhD, CIH
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Byeonghwa Jeon
Byeonghwa Jeon, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Infectious Diseases
Patricia Jewett
Patricia Jewett, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Cancer ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Hyun Kim
Hyun Kim, ScD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
George Maldonado
George Maldonado, PhD, MSPH
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Infectious Diseases ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Claudia Muoz-Zanzi
Claudia Muñoz-Zanzi, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Jonathan Oliver
Jonathan Oliver, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Infectious Diseases
Michael Osterholm
Michael T. Osterholm, PhD
Regents Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases
Lisa Peterson
Lisa Peterson, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures
Melinda Pettigrew
Melinda Pettigrew, PhD
Dean
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Specialty Areas:
Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Peter Raynor
Peter Raynor, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Infectious Diseases
Matt Simcik
Matt Simcik, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Substance Use
Irina Stepanov
Irina Stepanov, PhD
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Mayo Professor in Public Health
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families ◦ Substance Use
Gillian Tarr
Gillian Tarr, PhD, CPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Elizabeth Wattenberg
Elizabeth Wattenberg, PhD
Associate Dean of Education and Student Engagement
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Substance Use