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Doctoral Program Subcommittee on Environmental Health Sciences


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D

Chair: Paul Brandt-Rauf, Sc.D., M.D., Dr.P.H.
60 Haven Avenue, Room 108
New York, NY 10032
Tel: 212.305.3464
Fax: 212.305.3857


Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Graduate Student Teaching and M.A. Adviser: Greg A. Freyer, Ph.D.
60 Haven Avenue, B-1 New York, NY 10032
Tel: 212.342.0457
Fax: 212.781.4993


Faculty

Hari Bhat:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas, Galveston, 1990
Interests: Estrogens and breast cancer; Phytoestrogens and breast cancer prevention; Unequal burden of breast cancer among minority population; Development of better endocrine disruptors
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Paul Brandt-Rauf:
Professor and Chairman of Enviromental Health Sciences, Sc.D., M.D., Dr.P.H., Columbia, 1974, 1979, 1987
Interests: Environmental carcinogenesis, protein chemistry, molecular epidemiology, ethics;Growth signal transduction; molecular epidemiology; carcinogenesis
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dickson D. Despommier:
Professor, Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1967
Interests: Molecular biology of the secreted antigens of the nematode Trichinella spiralis
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Greg A. Freyer:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Missouri, 1981
Interests: DNA repair and cell cycle checkpoint regulation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mary Gamble:
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Ph.D., Columbia, 1999
Interests: Nutrition, cancer, arsenic
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joseph H. Graziano:
Associate Dean and Professor of Environmental Public Health and Pharmacology, Ph.D., Rutgers, 1971
Interests: Mineral metabolism and toxicology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Tom K. Hei:
Professor, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve, 1983
Interests: Radiation and environmental carcinogenesis; carcinogenic mechanisms; DNA damage and mutagenesis
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Patrick L. Kinney:
Associate Professor (Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health), Ph.D., Harvard, 1986
Interests: Air pollution; environmental epidemiology; lung function
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Frederica P. Perera:
Professor, Dr.P.H., Columbia, 1981
Interests: Molecular epidemiology, environmental causes of cancer and developmental disorders, including the effects of ambient air pollution, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and pesticides on health outcomes in children
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Matthew Scott Perzanowski:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Umeå, Sweden, 2003
Interests: Asthma, allergic diseases, airway inflammation, and the hygiene hypothesis
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Regina M. Santella:
Professor, Ph.D., CUNY, 1976
Interests: Genetics, immunologic, and biochemical monitoring of human exposure to dietary, environmental and occupational chemical carcinogens
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Neil Schluger:
Associate Professor (Epidemiology), M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1985
Interests: Epidemiology and clinical trials of tuberculosis
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Deliang Tang:
Associate Professor, Dr. P.H., Columbia University, 1997
Interests: Environmental carcinogenesis, molecular epidemiology, biochemical monitoring of human exposure, children's environmental health
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
I. Bernard Weinstein:
Professor, M.D., Wisconsin, 1955
Interests: Carcinogenesis; oncology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robin Whyatt:
Associate Professor of Clinical Environmental Health Sciences, M.P.H., Dr.P.H., Columbia, 1985, 1995
Interests: Children's environmental health; environmental reproductive/developmental disorders; effects of pesticides on childhood development; transplacental exposure of fetus to pesticides
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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