Center for the Environment - Harvard University

RESEARCH AREAS

Human Health

FACULTY
Lisa Berkman	Psychosocial influences on health outcomes; social inequalities in health related to socioeconomic status; biological and ecological factors in epidemiology.
Barry Bloom	Understanding mechanisms of protection against tuberculosis; nanoparticle technology to deliver vaccines against experimental tuberculosis.
David Bloom	Labor economics, health, demography, and the environment; the linkages between health status, population change and economic growth.
Joseph Brain	Responses to inhaled gases, particulates, and microbes; prevention and pathogenesis of environmental lung disease, respiratory infection.
Marcia Castro	Changes in demographic patterns, disease burdens, and health policies.
Eric Chivian	Human health consequences of habitat degradation, species loss, and ecosystem disruption.
David Christiani	Molecular epidemiology; methods for assessing health effects after pollutant exposure; international occupational and environmental health.
George M. Church	New genomic and proteomic measurement and modeling methods for biomedical and ecological systems.
Bruce Demple	Mechanisms by which diverse organisms (bacteria, yeast, and human cells) deal with the toxic side effects of free radicals including DNA repair, adaptive resistance to Nitric Oxide, the soxRS Regulon.
Douglas Dockery	Health effects of air pollution exposures; other environmental hazards, including water contamination.
Paul R. Epstein	Health impacts of climate change; health applications of climate forecasting and remote sensing.
Majid Ezzati	Energy, air pollution, and health in developing countries; the role of environmental risks, smoking, and nutritional risks in current and future disease burden.
Albert J. Fornace, Jr.	Molecular biology of cellular injury.
Daniel Goodenough	Cell biology; health and global environmental change.
James K. Hammitt	Management of long-term environmental issues with important scientific uncertainties such as global climate change and stratospheric-ozone depletion; characterization of social preferences over health and environmental risks.
Colleen Hansel	Environmental chemistry; environmental microbiology; risk analysis and public health.
Karl Kelsey	The application of laboratory-based biomarkers in chronic disease epidemiology and tumor biology.
Roy Kishony	System-level architecture of genetic networks and the interplay between their design and the evolutionary process.
Petros Koutrakis	Human exposure measurement techniques; sources, transport, and fate of air pollutants.
Jennifer Leaning	Problems of international human rights and humanitarian law, humanitarian crises, and medical ethics in practical settings of disasters and emergencies.
Jonathan Levy	Environmental and health impacts of air pollution with a focus on urban environments.
Marc Lipsitch	Transmission dynamics and within-host population biology of infectious disease.
Megan Murray	Within-species comparative genomics of M. Tuberculosis strains; modeling the transmission dynamics of emerging infectious disease.
Samuel Myers	Human health and global environmental change; how interplay of resource scarcity, ecosystem service degradation, and climate change combine to create health vulnerability, particularly among the poor in the developing world.
Peter P. Rogers	Consequences of population on natural resources development; conflict resolution in international river basins; the impacts of global change on water resources.
Joan Ruderman	Molecular biology of cell division and embryonic development; environmental estrogens, including many pesticides, herbicides, and components of certain commonly used plastics.
Louise M. Ryan	Statistical methods related to environmental risk assessment for cancer, developmental and reproductive toxicity, and other adverse health effects.
Joel Schwartz	Health effects of lead and air pollutants and ozone exposure; cost-benefit analysis in environmental decision making.
James Shine	Transport, fate, and effects of contaminants in aquatic ecosystems.
Pamela Silver	Synthetic biology; genome organization; pathways in disease; biofuels.
Thomas Smith	The characterization of environmental exposures for studies of health effects, and investigation of the quantitative relationship between environmental exposure and internal dose; occupational safety and health.
Frank Speizer	Environmental epidemiology (health effects from air pollution and occupational exposure); environmental health.
John Spengler	The assessment of population exposures to contaminants that occur in homes, offices, schools and during transit, as well as in the outdoor environment.
Kimberly Thompson	Developing and applying quantitative methods for risk assessment and risk management, especially relating to children's risks and the environment.
Richard Wilson	Wise use of nuclear energy; understanding of the carbon cycle for optimum reduction in carbon use; effects on helath of pollutants such as Arsenic; general risk analysis of effects on health.

Human Health-Related Programs at Harvard

Center for Health and the Global Environment (HMS)
Center for Risk Analysis (HSPH)
China Project
Channing Laboratory (HMS)
Department of Environmental Health (HSPH)
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HSPH)
Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HKS)
Harvard Malaria Initiative (HSPH)
John B. Little Center for Radiation Sciences and Environmental Health (HSPH)
John E. Mack Institute (formerly the Center for Psychology and Social Change)
NIEHS Center for Environmental Health (HSPH)
Occupational and Environmental Health Center (HSPH)
Occupational and Environmental Medicine (HMS)
Taubman Center for State and Local Government (HKS)