Center for the Environment - Harvard University

RESEARCH AREAS

Human Health

FACULTY
James G. Anderson	Catalytic processes in the atmosphere controlling global change of ozone; development of laser systems from stratospheric and troposheric studies; development of high-altitude, long-duration unmanned aircraft for studies of global climate change.
Alan Berger	Adaptive reuse of post-industrial landscapes.
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 as well as respiratory infection.
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.
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; the chemical and physical characteristics of those particles responsible for the observed adverse health effects.
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; major health risk factors and their role in current and future disease burden globally or in specific countries and regions.
Daniel Goodenough	Cell biology; curricula on health and global environmental change.
James K. Hammitt	The development and application of quantitative methods--including benefit-cost, decision, and risk analysis--to health and environmental policy.
Daniel J. Jacob	Air pollution, atmospheric transport, regional and global atmospheric chemistry, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, climate change.
Sheila Jasanoff	Science and the courts; environmental regulation and risk management; comparative public policy; social studies of science and technology; and science and technology policy.
Karl Kelsey	The application of laboratory-based biomarkers in chronic disease epidemiology and tumor biology.
Petros Koutrakis	The development of human exposure measurement techniques and the investigation of sources, transport, and the 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	Development of models to quantitatively assess the environmental and health impacts of air pollution from local to national scales, 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.
Heather Nelson	Understanding cancer susceptibility and etiology.
Anne Pringle	Ecological genetics; fungal diversity, biogeography, and the autecology of individual species.
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; development and reproductive toxicity.
Joel Schwartz	Epidemiology and the health consequences of exposure to lead and air pollutants; methodological questions regarding the modeling of continuous covariates in epidemiologic studies.
James Shine	Transport, fate, and effects of contaminants in aquatic ecosystems; partitioning and bioavailability of organic and heavy metal contaminants in aquatic sediments.
Pamela Silver	Synthetic biology; Genome organization; Pathways in disease.
Tom Smith	The characterization of environmental exposures for studies of health effects, and investigation of the quantitative relationship between environmental exposure and internal dose.
Frank Speizer	Natural history of respiratory diseases and the environmental risks for chronic diseases including risks for cancer and cardio-respiratory diseases.
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	Issues related to developing and applying quantitative methods for risk assessment and risk management, especially relating to children's risks.

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 NIEHS Center for Environmental Health (HSPH)
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)
Occupational and Environmental Health Center (HSPH)
Occupational and Environmental Medicine (HMS)
Taubman Center for State and Local Government (HKS)