Faculty

Faculty

Program Directors

Elizabeth NothElizabeth Noth, PhD, MPH

Dr. Elizabeth Noth is a researcher in environmental and occupational exposure science, and is primarily focused on assessing air pollution exposure for epidemiologic studies. She is trained in exposure assessment, modeling and spatial analysis, with a focus on modeling short-term air pollution exposures. Her current research includes exposure assessment method development for environmental and occupational cohorts, evaluation of polycyclic aromatic exposures, and the role of biomass burning in ambient air pollution exposures.

Ajay Pillarisetti, PhD, MPH

Dr. PillarisettiAjay Pilarisetti MPH, PhD researches the impacts of household energy use and related behaviors in low- and middle-income countries on air pollution exposure, human health, and climate change. He has extensive global environmental health research, practice, and capacity building experience in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Core Program Faculty & Staff

Joshua Apte, PhD

Associate Professor

John Balmes, MD

Professor Emeritus

John R. Balmes is a Professor Emeritus of Environmental Health Sciences whose research is focused on the respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic health effects of various air pollutants and occupational agents.Read more about John Balmes, MD

Rosemarie de la Rosa, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Rosemarie de la Rosa is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences whose research focuses on understanding how the social environment becomes biologically embedded over the life course and influences susceptibility to pollutant exposures.Read more about Rosemarie de la Rosa, PhD, MPH

Ellen Eisen, PhD, ScD

Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Program Director

Ellen Eisen is a Professor trained in biostatistics and interested in questions about the role of work in health and the contribution of occupational exposures to the risk of disease.Read more about Ellen Eisen, PhD, ScD

Katherine Hammond, PhD, CIH

Professor of the Graduate School

Carisa Harris, PhD, CPE

Director of COEH | Director of UCSF/UCB Ergonomics Graduate Training Program | STEER Director

Associate Professor and Director Carisa Harris Adamson, PhD, CPE is the primary graduate advisor for M.S., MPH and Ph.D...Read more about Carisa Harris, PhD, CPE

Carly Hyland, PhD, MS

Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension

Carly Hyland is an Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension in Environmental Health Sciences and UC ANR whose work focuses on mitigating the health effects of climate change among agricultural and food systems workers.Read more about Carly Hyland, PhD, MS

Layla Kwong, PhD

Assistant Professor

Laura (Layla) H. Kwong is an assistant professor in Environmental Health Sciences who focuses on exposure to environmental contaminants and infectious disease, impacts on child and maternal health and development, and interventions to reduce adverse impacts. She has worked in Bangladesh,...Read more about Layla Kwong, PhD

Mark Nicas, PhD, MPH, CIH

Emeritus, Adjunct Professor - Environmental Health Sciences

Elizabeth Noth, PhD, CIH

Co-Director
Industrial Hygiene

As Director of the Industrial Hygiene program in the Northern California NIOSH Education and Research Center at the Northern California Center of Occupational and Environmental Health, I provide leadership in mentoring, teaching and research opportunities to student trainees in our program...Read more about Elizabeth Noth, PhD, CIH

Ajay Pilarisetti MPH, PhD

Co-Director
Industrial Hygiene

Megan Schwarzman, MD, MPH

Associate Project Scientist and Lecturer - Environmental Health Sciences

Affiliated Faculty

Garrett Brown, MPH, CIH

Retired special assistant to Cal/OSHA Chief
Cal/OSHA

Garrett Brown is a Certified Industrial Hygienist who has a Master in Public Health for UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. For more than 20 years, Brown worked for the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) as a field compliance officer and later as Special...Read more about Garrett Brown, MPH, CIH

Sadie Costello, PhD, MPH

COEH Deputy Director | Targeted Research Training Program Director | STEER Co-Director

Sadie Costello is an occupational and environmental epidemiologist at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She has studied a range of chronic disease outcomes, including heart disease and cancer, in relation to particulate exposures in light metal manufacturing, metalworking fluids in...Read more about Sadie Costello, PhD, MPH

Laurel Davis, MPH

Environmental Health & Safety Manager
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Laurel is an EHS Manager at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and has over 25 years of ES&H experience. At Berkeley Lab, she manages a team of Industrial Hygienists and Safety Specialists, who support research operations and a broad range health and safety programs. She has previously...Read more about Laurel Davis, MPH

Sheiphali Gandhi, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor
Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Sheiphali Gandhi, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco in the Divisions of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy Medicine. She is a dual-boarded pulmonologist and occupational/environmental...Read more about Sheiphali Gandhi, MD, MPH

Jay Graham, PhD, MBA, MPH

Program Director Master of Public Health Program

Jay Graham’s research contributes to the development of more efficient and effective approaches to scale-up public health initiatives for the prevention and control of infectious diseases.Read more about Jay Graham, PhD, MBA, MPH

Robert Harrison, MD, MPH

Sr. Physician Diplomate at UCSF

Dr. Robert Harrison is a specialist in occupational medicine. He founded the UCSF Occupational Health Program and has directed its services for more than 15 years. He has diagnosed and treated more than 10,000 patients with work-related and environmentally induced diseases or injuries. He...Read more about Robert Harrison, MD, MPH

Ann Keller, PhD

Associate Professor

Ann C. Keller is an Associate Professor of Health Politics and Policy whose research projects focus on exploring the nature and use of scientific and technical expertise in public decision making.Read more about Ann Keller, PhD

James Seward, MD, MPP, MMM

Medical Director Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Clinical Professor - Environmental Health Sciences

Glenn Shor, PhD, MPP

Lecturer

Glenn Shor is a lecturer and affiliated researcher with the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at U.C. Berkeley, where he co-teaches a School of Public Health course on injury prevention and control. He also is a lecturer in the Department of Public Health at CSU-Sacramento, where...Read more about Glenn Shor, PhD, MPP

Gina Solomon, MD, MPH

Chief of the Division of OEM at UCSF | Program Director
Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Gina Solomon, M.D., M.P.H. is the Chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at UCSF. In this role, she oversees clinical occupational and environmental health at UCSF Health, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and the San Francisco Veterans Administration...Read more about Gina Solomon, MD, MPH