Environmental and Occupational Hygiene Faculty              

Each of the core faculty members has broad based experience in environmental hygiene practice and is a specialist in one or more areas of environmental and Occupational Hygiene, indoor air quality or ergonomics research. Each core faculty is qualified to teach at the practitioner and advanced scientific levels. The core faculty is assisted at both levels by colleagues in the Department and the University as well as by adjunct and volunteer faculty members and lecturers from industry and governmental institutes in the Cincinnati area. A brief description of each of the core faculty's and support staff's areas of specialization is given below

Atin Adhikari	ATIN.ADHIKARI@UC.EDU
Assistant Professor	558-0500
Description:
Dr. Adhikari’s research focuses on the exposure assessment and characterization of airborne microorganisms, aeroallergens, endotoxin, and(1→3)-β-d-glucan in occupational, residential, and ambient environments, which are relevant to respiratory allergy, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, infectious diseases, and biodeterioration. Additionally, he has been involved with several projects focusing indoor air pollution and biohazard control using air ionization and photocatalytic oxidation methods, application of halogen-enriched filled nanocomposite materials for inactivating airborne bacteria and viruses, influences of air pollutants and meteorological changes on airborne microbial flora, and respiratory protection against airborne microorganisms.

Amit Bhattacharya	BHATTAAT@UCMAIL.UC.EDU
Professor, Director of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Graduate Program	558-0503
Description:
Professor Amit Bhattacharya, Ph.D., CPE, is trained in the field of mechanical engineering with specialization in biomedical engineering and stress physiology. Dr. Bhattacharya’s research activities since 1971 involved projects with multidisciplinary approaches. A majority of his research activities involved collaborative projects (as P.I. or as Co-Investigator) with researchers having a wide range of expertise such as, biomechanics, engineering, medicine, physiology (human and animal), epidemiology, toxicologist, neuropsychologist and genetics. His recent research interest in collaboration with faculty in neurology, geriatric medicine, BioMEMS/nano-technology engineering, population epidemiology and genomic information center, has focused in the areas of 1) Early/sub-clinical detection of human health/impairment when exposed to multiple risk factors of chemical (e.g. exposures to neurotoxic agents), physical (workload, physical environment) as well as personal (age, obesity, genetic) origin 2) He is also investigating the role of gene-environment interaction for determining individual susceptibility to chemical risk factors associated impairment in neurobehavioral performance.This project area has application to counter-terrorism 3) Design and development of BIOMEMS (and/or nano-technology) based sensors for remote health monitoring (tele-metered) and early detection of certain neurological and musculoskeletal disorders (bone disorders) among the elderly with special emphasis on the role of gene-environment interaction based individual susceptibility to these disorders.

Scott Clark	CLARKCS@UCMAIL.UC.EDU
Director of Environmental and Industrial Hygiene	558-1749
Description:
Professor Scott Clark, Ph.D., P.E., CIH, has a background in environmental health engineering and has been focusing his efforts on exposure pathways and intervention evaluation for environmental lead and on and exposure assessments in residential and occupational environments. He is also involved in health risk assessment and occupational hygiene education program development.

Kermit Davis	DAVISKG@UCMAIL.UC.EDU
Associate Professor	558-2809
Description:
Associate Professor Kermit Davis, Ph.D., CPE, was trained in Industrial Engineering with specialization in occupational ergonomics and low back biomechanics with special interest in multiple exposures, both physical and psychosocial stressors. Recently, many of his research projects have evaluated products and interventions in real world situation (research to practice).

Sergey Grinshpun	GRINSHS@UCMAIL.UC.EDU
Professor	558-0504
Description:
Professor Sergey Grinshpun, Ph.D. was trained as a physicist with focus on aerosols. He is involved in research on aerosol measurement, characterization and control of airborne particles and microorganisms in indoor and outdoor environments. Since 2000, he has been directing the Center for Health-Related Aerosol Studies

Tiina Reponen	REPONETA@UCMAIL.UC.EDU
Professor	558-0571
Description:
Dr. Reponen’s research is focused on the exposure assessment of bioaerosols in indoor and industrial environments, including physical and microbiological characterization of airborne actinomycete and fungal spores, the dispersion of bioaerosols under natural and laboratory conditions, and the control of airborne microorganisms by filtration. She is a Certified Indoor Air Quality Professional, and in her field studies, she is collaborating with epidemiologists in investigating the health effects of particle and bioaerosol exposures.

Carol Rice	ALERDILR@UC.EDU
Professor, Deputy Director Environmental and Occupational Hygiene	558-1751
Description:
Professor Carol Rice, Ph.D., CIH, specializes in the assessment of current industrial exposures and the evaluation of working lifetime exposures. She has a special interest in the use of historical exposure data to reconstruct past human exposures for occupational epidemiology studies; since 1987, she has been directing the Midwest Consortium for Hazardous Waste Worker Training

Glenn Talaska	TALASKGG@UCMAIL.UC.EDU
Professor	558-0519
Description:
Professor Glenn Talaska, Ph.D., CIH, has a background in industrial hygiene, genetic toxicology, and carcinogenesis. His research is related to biological monitoring, chemical carcinogens and includes DNA adduct analysis, cytogenetics and metabolite analysis. He is the Vice Chair of the ACGIH Biological Exposure Indices Committee.