Faculty Research Interests | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health

The Department of Environmental Health and Engineering has a diverse range of research areas, which focus on the adverse influence of the environment on human health and with controlling these influences. In this regard, the Department considers “environment” in its broadest sense, including the natural, built and social environments.

Our faculty's research focuses on agents in the environment, including biological, chemical and physical environmental agents. The Department engages in a number of activities within this traditional approach, including studies of the sources and environmental distribution of such agents; human exposure to such agents; the body’s response at the molecular, cellular, organ system- and whole-body levels; environmental risk assessment; and prevention and intervention strategies (including environmental engineering, law, policy and communications solutions).

Faculty Member	Research Focus
Joseph Bressler Associate Professor	Dr. Bressler's laboratory has been studying transporters and their interaction with environmental toxins.
One Health Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University Meghan Frost Davis Associate Professor	The One Health Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University examines the interface of bacteria and hosts to reduce microbe-mediated disease in humans and animals.
DeCarlo Lab at Johns Hopkins Peter DeCarlo Associate Professor	The DeCarlo Lab is focused on the measurement of chemicals in the air we breathe and how that information can be used to advance science and inform policy.
Harman Research Group (Landscape Hydrology@JHU) Ciaran Harman Assistant Professor	Dr. Harman's research group studies water flow and transport. Their work combines field work, experimental studies, and numerical modeling.
The Johns Hopkins Environmental Health Microbiology and Immunology Laboratory Christopher D. Heaney Associate Professor	Dr. Heaney's research focuses on improving understanding of the dynamics and determinants of environmental and occupational stressors and infectious diseases.
Koehler Research Group Kirsten Koehler Professor	Dr. Koehler's goals are to improve exposure assessment methods to inform occupational and public health policy. Her research goals involve the use of direct-reading instrumentation to improve spatiotemporal exposure assessment.
Kohr Laboratory of Cardiovascular Redox Signaling Mark Kohr Associate Professor	The focus of the Kohr Laboratory of Cardiovascular Redox Signaling is to elucidate redox-sensitive signaling pathways and to define the mechanistic consequences of redox-based post-translational protein modifications in healthy and diseased myocardium, namely S-nitrosylation and other forms of oxidation.
Greenhouse Gas Research Group Scot Miller Assistant Professor	The Greenhouse Gas Lab studies the emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants.
Nachman Research Group Keeve Nachman Professor Program Director, Food Production & Public Health Program Center for A Livable Future	Dr. Nachman's research interests include arsenic, food systems, risk science, risk assessment, environmental epidemiology, industrial food animal production, animal waste, animal feed, foraging, urban gardens, agriculture, biosolids, veterinary drugs, Chesapeake Bay watershed protection, antimicrobial resistance, exposure assessment, regulatory toxicology, regulatory policy, chemical residues in food.
Preheim Lab Group Sarah Preheim Assistant Professor	The Preheim Lab Group seeks to understand, predict and manipulate complex microbial community function with a goal towards protecting and sustaining human and environmental health.
Research Program of Dr. Ramachandran Gurumurthy RamachandranProfessor	Dr. Ramachandran has conducted research in various areas relating to human exposure assessment in occupational, residential, and outdoor settings.
Ruggero Rossi Assistant Professor	The Ruggero Rossi Group works at the intersection of electrochemistry, microbiology, and engineering to achieve a sustainable energy-water infrastructure, and environmentally sustainable production of chemicals.
Shilva Shrestha Assistant Professor	The Shrestha Lab focuses on developing sustainable resource recovery biotechnologies to produce bioenergy and biochemicals from waste biomass.