Department of Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health faculty, staff, and their research interest:
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My research explores the relationships of extreme weather, climate variability, and climate change on natural and human processes. The climate that we experience controls... |
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Dr. Beseler’s research has primarily focused on the association of pesticide exposure on mental health in farmers and risk factors for substance use disorders... |
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My research focuses extensively on interdisciplinary research projects aimed at combining inorganic nanomaterials with biological materials and living cells to create novel solutions to problems in public health... |
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My research uses a mixture of wet-lab and computational methods, heavily focused in genomics-based research. Next-generation sequencing technologies can detect microbial agents, both known and unknown. |
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My research focuses on high-consequence infectious disease preparedness and management, with focus on infection prevention and control, high-level isolation, training and education, and health system preparedness... |
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Environmental exposures affect every aspect of our physical and mental health, quality of life, and life expectancy. |
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Meghan is passionate about sustainability and development of academic-community partnerships for building resilience to the impacts of climate change... |
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John Lowe, PhD serves as the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Security Training and Education, Director of Research for the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit,... |
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Research interests and training are in the field of toxicology. Past research areas have involved the use of cell and whole animal models to study mechanisms of liver toxicity of drugs and environmental chemicals... |
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Dr. Nonnenmann is interested in using unique tools to characterize and control exposures to bioaerosols using engineering, administrative and personal protection solutions... |
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Research interests include emerging infectious diseases, pathogen discovery and laboratory capacity building... |
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Research interests include the following: agricultural and occupational health and safety; intervention effectiveness research; injury epidemiology; agricultural safety engineering; health and safety training, education, and outreach... |
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Research centers around elucidating mechanisms of activation of carcinogens, identifying carcinogen-DNA adducts, and correlating adducts with oncogenic mutations. From our previous study of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)... |
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Occupational safety and health for general industry, construction, and transportation; industrial engineering and organizational psychology; ergonomics in food processing, manufacturing... |
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Human movement variability; biomechanics; motor control; occupational biomechanics; ergonomics; biomedical engineering; biotechnology; bioengineering; occupational health; movement disorders... |
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Research interests include infectious disease response, genome sequencing, biosurveillance, molecular epidemiology, and outbreak control... |
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Research interests include health communication and health equity... |
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Research is directed toward the understanding of airway epithelial cell function under physiologic and disease conditions. We are interested in the mechanistic signal transduction pathways that define ciliary beating, pro-inflammatory... |
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Research interest is to improve the health of workers in agriculture and related industries through science based research, product development and outreach. My specific interests are in the research and development of sound ergonomic... |
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Interdisciplinary chemical and biochemical approaches and techniques to focus on the etiology of human cancers, leukemia and Parkinson’s disease with a major focus to understand the mechanism of cancer initiating steps by natural... |
John-Martin Lowe, PhD
JoEllyn M. McMillan, PhD
Matthew W. Nonnenmann, PhD, CIH
Risto Rautiainen, PhD
Eleanor Rogan, PhD
Terry Stentz, PhD, MPH, CPE, CPC
Nick Stergiou, PhD
Summer Woolsey, MPH
Todd Wyatt, PhD
Aaron Yoder, PhD
Muhammad Zahid, PhD
Affiliated Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Courtesy Faculty |
CS-CASH Staff
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Coordinator for the Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health (CS-CASH) which includes assisting the Center Director in planning, coordinating and monitoring the 23 projects funded by the Center. |
Staff
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Provides administrative support to department faculty and coordinates the Environmental Health, Occupational Health and Toxicology graduate program. |
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Provides cost accounting, financial and analytical resources to the department. |
Contact
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Department of Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health Administrative: Rachel Maley UNMC Graduate Studies Office |