Environmental Health, Science and Policy

Doctor Kelly Pollack
The Effect of Caffeine on Algal Endosymbionts of Reef-Building Corals
PhD Environmental Health, Science and Policy, Summer 2008
Committee:Professors Oladele Ogunseitan(Chair), Sunny Jiang, and Chad Garner

Doctor Josephine Bitler
Pre-Diabetes in Hispanic Girls: Susceptibility and Environment
PhD Environmental Health, Science and Policy, June 2008
Committee:Professors Chad Garner(Chair), Catherine Carpenter, and Daniel Stokols

Epidemiological methods are useful not only for investigating chronic and infectious diseases and other traditional applications, but also for exploring and understanding problems of substance abuse and interpersonal violence that plague American society. These latter problems are reflected in the direction taken by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in establishing distinct centers to study these more recent phenomena of societal concern.

As technology advances and the importance of national boundaries diminish, there is a growing need to understand the interactions of biological, chemical and physical agents with the environment. In the past, interaction of these agents has manifested itself in outbreaks of disease in human, animal and plant communities. Today, with the threats from man-made changes in both the atmosphere and from pollution of the environment on the earth, scientists, professionals, and citizens must be trained to appreciate the complexity of modern environmental problems.

Representative UCI Research in Environmental Health Science

Environmental management and policy presents a prototypical social ecological problem. Failure to incorporate multiple disciplines (e.g., chemistry, biology, political science, economics, ecology) and multiple perspectives (e.g., local residents, community leaders, capitalists, government officials) into problem definition and solution leads to failure to provide cohesive and lasting remedies for environmental problems. In addition, effective environmental management and policy requires consideration of an extended time frame and complicated feedback systems, both social and physical. Students and practitioners of environmental management and policy are struggling to understand and resolve the most pressing domestic and international environmental

Environmental biotechnology involves utilizing biological systems as a means of protecting, changing, enhancing, or solving problems in the environment. Environmental biotechnology integrates a wide range of fields such as cell biology, ecology, molecular biology, plant and animal physiology, and microbiology. It does not solely consist of genetically engineered organisms but includes biological systems at various functional levels such as the molecular level, individual organisms, and populations. At the molecular level, DNA from organisms can be manipulated to obtain a desired result. For example, transferring the DNA of one bacteria or plant with a desired trait to another bacteria or plant without that trait can be used to enhance a

Welcome to EHS&P at UCI | Students' Websites | Meet Our Reps

Welcome to EHS&P at UCI | Students' Websites | Meet Our Reps

Email:
twarden@uci.edu

Areas of Interest:
Social ecology, environmental governance, environmental economics, science and society, human dimensions of global change, complex global problems, risk communication and cities and global warming.

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Email:
tanl@uci.edu

Areas of Interest:
Chemistry and biology of water resources. 

 

 

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Email:
sum@uci.edu

Areas of Interest:
Health effects related to mold exposure in IAQ.

 

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Email:
satrams@uci.edu

Areas of Interest:
Male breast cancer, female breast cancer, epidemiology, genetic, environment, veteran, case-control study.