Syracuse University
Meet their team members:
Brooks Gump
PhD, MPH, Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health, Syracuse University, is recognized internationally for his research on cardiovascular disease risk in children. He was awarded R01 and R15 grants from NEIHS and is PI of an NSF REU. Dr. Gump also studies environmental toxicants; health disparities and socioeconomic status; and the relationship between stress and health.
David Larsen
PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor Syracuse University, is an environmental epidemiologist with expertise in large data analysis; multi-level modeling; spatial statistics; geographic information systems; and study design. His content expertise lies broadly in global health, with specific expertise in mosquito borne illnesses, mental health, and sanitation. Dr. Larsen has extensive experience with high performance computing.
Brittany Kmush
PhD, Assistant Professor Syracuse University, specializes in epidemiology; global health; infectious disease; vaccines; nutrition; immunology; and environmental exposures. Funded by Gates Foundation, Dr. Kmush uses generalized linear models (linear regression, logistic regression, Poisson regression) and multi-level modeling.
Brooks Gump
PhD, MPH, Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health, Syracuse University, is recognized internationally for his research on cardiovascular disease risk in children. He was awarded R01 and R15 grants from NEIHS and is PI of an NSF REU. Dr. Gump also studies environmental toxicants; health disparities and socioeconomic status; and the relationship between stress and health.
David Larsen
PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor Syracuse University, is an environmental epidemiologist with expertise in large data analysis; multi-level modeling; spatial statistics; geographic information systems; and study design. His content expertise lies broadly in global health, with specific expertise in mosquito borne illnesses, mental health, and sanitation. Dr. Larsen has extensive experience with high performance computing.
Brittany Kmush
PhD, Assistant Professor Syracuse University, specializes in epidemiology; global health; infectious disease; vaccines; nutrition; immunology; and environmental exposures. Funded by Gates Foundation, Dr. Kmush uses generalized linear models (linear regression, logistic regression, Poisson regression) and multi-level modeling.
Upstate Medical University
Core medical scientists from Upstate offer expertise in health disparities, Parkinson’s disease, computational systems biology analytics, sequencing, cancer genomics and transcriptomics analyses integrated with clinical and epidemiological studies and translation, with funding from NYS DOH, HRSA, NIH, and Pfizer.
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Meet their team members:
Christopher Morley
PhD, Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, is an experienced research project manager with a strong history of scholarship and a decade of research experience and management in NIH-funded contexts. Dr. Morley is interested in tobacco control, mental health, psychiatric genetics, public health, medical education, and ethics.
Frank Middleton
PhD, Associate Professor studies autism; schizophrenia; ADHD; Parkinson's disease; alcohol abuse; and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Middleton is an expert in next generation sequencing, comparative anatomical analysis, and statistical data mining.
Travis Hobart
MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Public Health & Preventive Medicine, is the medical director of the Central New York Children's Environmental Health Center and Assistant Medical Director of the Central and Eastern New York Lead Poisoning Resource Center. He specializes in health effects and clinical management of childhood lead exposure and other environmental hazards; translational research, population health, health disparities, and health policy.
Paula Rosenbaum
PhD, is a chronic disease epidemiologist, focused on pediatric cancer as well as environmental exposures associated with endocrine, metabolic and immunologic disorders across multiple age groups.
Vladimir A. Kuznetsov
PhD, SciD, Professor of Urology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is an internationally recognized expert in cancer systems biology; bioinformatics; big data and survival prediction analyses; predictive and personalized medicine; computational biology; and integrative cancer genomics and transcriptomics.
Christopher Morley
PhD, Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, is an experienced research project manager with a strong history of scholarship and a decade of research experience and management in NIH-funded contexts. Dr. Morley is interested in tobacco control, mental health, psychiatric genetics, public health, medical education, and ethics.
Frank Middleton
PhD, Associate Professor studies autism; schizophrenia; ADHD; Parkinson's disease; alcohol abuse; and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Middleton is an expert in next generation sequencing, comparative anatomical analysis, and statistical data mining.
Travis Hobart
MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Public Health & Preventive Medicine, is the medical director of the Central New York Children's Environmental Health Center and Assistant Medical Director of the Central and Eastern New York Lead Poisoning Resource Center. He specializes in health effects and clinical management of childhood lead exposure and other environmental hazards; translational research, population health, health disparities, and health policy.
Paula Rosenbaum
PhD, is a chronic disease epidemiologist, focused on pediatric cancer as well as environmental exposures associated with endocrine, metabolic and immunologic disorders across multiple age groups.
Vladimir A. Kuznetsov
PhD, SciD, Professor of Urology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is an internationally recognized expert in cancer systems biology; bioinformatics; big data and survival prediction analyses; predictive and personalized medicine; computational biology; and integrative cancer genomics and transcriptomics.
Tulane Environmental Law Clinic
CEMI Graduate Students, Mike Petroni and Sarah Howard, collaborated with Dr. Kim Terrell, Staff Scientist at the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, to facilitate a two-day workshop entitled, "Identifying Environmental Health Disparities in the United States using Publicly Available Data and Software.” Workshop participants included students affiliated with the University Network for Human Rights, as well as citizen scientists and environmental advocates from around the country. Participants gained basic skills and knowledge to identify environmental health disparities by going stepwise through the process of finding, mapping, and analyzing data, as well as interpreting and communicating results. Mike and Sarah look forward to sharing this workshop with additional audiences. Learn more about this partner at http://www.tulane.edu/~telc/.
Propublica
As one of our newest partners, ProPublica's mission is "To expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing."
Our collaboration together has allowed us to co-produce literature about Hazardous Air Pollutants and COVID-19 in the United States. For more information about ProPublica, visit there website https://www.propublica.org/ |
Building a network To acheive Goals
A collaborative network is vital to expanding this center. We are always looking for new parnterships that will help us expand our use of big environmental data and it applications to medicine and health.
With these partners, CEMI will contribute to redefining the boundaries of research and education as conducted on the Hill campuses and in doing so, will challenge discipline specific conventional wisdom that can stifle creativity. It will foster a change in the research culture to promote team science, innovation resulting from discipline diversity, and the application of new methods and approaches in research design. For students, it will expose them to broad-based training and encourage “out-of-the box” thinking. This is particularly important in environmental health where most problems lie at the intersection of human-natural systems. Coupled with its translational focus, CEMI scientists will generate actionable research capable of moving discoveries rapidly from “bench-to-bedside” and influencing national health policy. Finally, the fundamental emphasis on informatics will lead to the development of new tools and technologies for understanding complexity.
With these partners, CEMI will contribute to redefining the boundaries of research and education as conducted on the Hill campuses and in doing so, will challenge discipline specific conventional wisdom that can stifle creativity. It will foster a change in the research culture to promote team science, innovation resulting from discipline diversity, and the application of new methods and approaches in research design. For students, it will expose them to broad-based training and encourage “out-of-the box” thinking. This is particularly important in environmental health where most problems lie at the intersection of human-natural systems. Coupled with its translational focus, CEMI scientists will generate actionable research capable of moving discoveries rapidly from “bench-to-bedside” and influencing national health policy. Finally, the fundamental emphasis on informatics will lead to the development of new tools and technologies for understanding complexity.