Section Editorial Boards
Health Economics
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Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Paul B. Tchounwou
Molecular Toxicology Research Laboratory, Jackson State University, 1400 Lynch Street, Box 18750, Jackson, Mississippi 39217, USA
Tel. +1 601 979 3321; Fax: +1 601 979 2349
Website: http://www.jsums.edu/biology/dr-paul-b-tchounwou/
E-Mail: paul.b.tchounwou@jsums.edu
Interests: molecular toxicology; mutagenesis and carcinogenesis; environmental epidemiology and health risk assessment; biomarkers of exposure; effect and susceptibility; gene-environment interactions and diseases; natural resource damage assessment and management
Assistant Editor
Dr. Joyce Zhou
MDPI Beijing Office, Suite 2011, Ruidu International Center, No. 1 Cuijingbeili, Tongzhou District, Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 81521170; Fax: +86 10 59011089
E-Mail: joyce.zhou@mdpi.com
Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 33 79
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com
Advisory Board
Advisory Board Member
Dr. Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr.
Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Room 8070, Bethesda, MD 20892-7242, USA
Tel. +1 301 496 1611; Fax: +1 301 402 3256
Website: http://dceg.cancer.gov/
E-Mail: fraumeni@nih.gov
Interests: cancer epidemiology
Advisory Board Member
Prof. Dr. Peter M. Ndumbe
Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea, Molyko, PO Box 63, Buea, Cameroon
Tel. +237 3332 2134 / +237 3332 2813; Fax: +237 3332 2813
E-Mail: pndumbe@gmail.com
Interests: environmental health; school and family health; millennium development goals and diseases of poverty
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Assaf A. Abdelghani
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health of Tropical Medicine, Suite 2100, 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
Tel. +1 504 988 5374; Fax: +1 504 988 1726
Website: http://tulane.edu/publichealth/ehs/faculty_abdelghani.cfm
E-Mail: assafa@tulane.edu
Interests: the impact of toxic chemicals on human health and the environment:accumulation in food chain organisms and degradation; water and sanitation and effects of agricultural pesticides in developing nations
Dr. Akihiro Asakawa
Division of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine, Department of Social and Behavioral Medicine, Kagoshima University, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
E-Mail: asakawa@m2.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
Interests: feeding behavior; body weight regulation; environmental health; bone marrow
Prof. Dr. Mohamed-Bassem A. Ashour
Pesticide Biochemistry and Environmental Toxicology, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagaziz University, Egypt
Tel. +20 1 05 44 0435
E-Mail: bassem_ab_ashour@yahoo.com
Interests: toxicity and biotransformation of agrochemicals; molecular diagnosis of pesticides and biocontrol agents toxicity and resistance; health and environmental risk assessment of pesticides; applications of biotechnology in pest control
Dr. Jose A. Centeno
Chief, Division of Biophysical Toxicology, The Joint Pathology Center, Depleted Uranium and Embedded Fragment Laboratory, Malcolm Grow Medical Center, 1057 West Perimeter Road, Bldg 1050, Room GB-33, Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility Washington, MD 20762, USA
Tel. +1 240 857 6882; DSN: 857-6882; Mobile: +1 301 502 8846; Fax: +1 240 857 7952
E-Mail: jose.centeno@afncr.af.mil
Interests: environmental toxicology; environmental pathology; medical geology; health effects of trace elements; metals and metalloids
Prof. Dr. Derek Clements-Croome
Director of Research for the School of Construction Management and Engineering; Chairman of: Natural Ventilation Group and Intelligent Buildings Group for the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers; Vice-President of CIBSE from May 2007 and Board Member for British Council of Offices, UK
Tel. +44 118 378 6254; Fax: +44 118 931 3856
Website: http://www.icrc-reading.org/profile/detail.asp?ProfileID=8
E-Mail: d.j.clements-croome@reading.ac.uk
Interests: intelligent buildings; design of workplaces; logistic support analysis; individual environmental control; indoor quality and alternative approaches to heating, ventilating and airconditioning of buildings; environmental design for human needs; environmental issues for the construction industry
Prof. Dr. Peter Clifton
Obesity and Health, Preventative Health Flagship, Affiliate Professor Department of Medicine and Department of Biomedical Science, Adelaide University, SA, Australia
Tel. (08) 8303 8826; Fax: (08) 8303 8884
E-Mail: peter.clifton@csiro.au
Interests: Impact of diet and obesity on CVD and type 2 diabetes
Contribution:
Special Issue: Obesity and Public Health
Prof. Dr. Peter Congdon
Department of Geography and Centre for Statistics, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
Tel. +44 2078 828200
Website: http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/staff/congdonp.html
E-Mail: p.congdon@qmul.ac.uk
Interests: spatial epidemiology; Bayesian modeling of health outcomes; small area disease prevalence estimation; area mortality; geographic and socioeconomic inequalities in chronic disease and mental health; suicidology
Contribution:
Special Issue: Spatial Epidemiology
Prof. Dr. Kenneth A. Dawson
Centre For BioNano Interactions (CBNI), School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Tel. +353 1 716 2459
Website: http://www.cbni.eu
E-Mail: Kenneth.A.Dawson@cbni.ucd.ie
Prof. Dr. Prescott L. Deininger
Professor of Epidemiology, Tulane Cancer Center, SL-66, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Tel. +1 504 988 6385; Fax: +1 504 988 5516
Website: http://tulane.edu/som/cancer/prescott-deininger.cfm
E-Mail: pdeinin@tulane.edu
Interests: genetic instability; mobile elements; gene expression; mutation; DNA repair
Prof. Dr. José G. Dórea
Department of Nutrition, University of Brasilia, 70919.970 Brasilia, Brazil
Website: http://www.ische.ca/users/jgdorea
E-Mail: dorea@rudah.com.br
Interests: public health; environmental sciences; toxicology; pharmacology
Prof. Dr. Walid El Ansari
Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Gloucestershire, Oxstalls Campus, Oxstalls Lane, Gloucester GL2 9HW, UK
Tel. +44 (0) 1242 715274; Fax: +44 (0) 1242 715222
Website: http://insight.glos.ac.uk/academicschools/dse/staff/Pages/profwalidelansari.aspx
E-Mail: walidansari@glos.ac.uk
Interests: public health; health services research; patient and public participation; community alliances and partnerships in health; inter- agency collaboration; student health; physical activity; multidisciplinary quantitative & qualitative research; epidemiology & statistical methods; primary health care
Contribution:
Special Issue: Health and Wellbeing of Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
Prof. Dr. Rachel A. Elliott
Division for Social Research in Medicines and Health The School of Pharmacy University of Nottingham University Park, East Drive, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)115 84 68596; Fax: +44 (0)115 84 66249
Website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pharmacy/people/rachel.elliott
E-Mail: Rachel.Elliott@nottingham.ac.uk
Interests: health economics; economic evaluation; medicines adherence; medicines safety; complex interventions; primary care; health care costs; health policy
Dr. Jim Fitzgerald
Public Health Toxicology, Scientific Services, Department of Health, PO Box 6 Rundle Mall, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia
Tel. +61 8 8226 7100; Fax: +61 8 8226 7101
E-Mail: jim.fitzgerald@health.sa.gov.au
Interests: human health risk assessment; public health toxicology; carcinogens; drinking-water chemical risks; cyanotoxins
Dr. Brian R. Flay
Department of Public Health, Oregon State University, Waldo Hall #321 (Mail #254), Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Tel. +1 541 737 3837; Fax: +1 541 737 4001
Website: http://www.hhs.oregonstate.edu/faculty-staff/userinfo.php?id=461
E-Mail: brian.flay@oregonstate.edu
Interests: health promotion and disease prevention research; mass media for health promotion and prevention; smoking and drug abuse prevention; violence prevention; youth HIV/AIDS prevention; positive youth development; comprehensive school reform; prevention research methods and theory; prevention research training
Contribution:
Special Issue: Drug Abuse and Addiction
Prof. Dr. Daniel E. Furst
Carl M Pearson Professor of Rheumatology, UCLA, 1000 Veteran Ave. Rehabilitation Center, Room 32-59, Los Angeles, California 90095-1670, USA
Tel. +1 310 206 5366; Fax: +1 310 206 8476
Website: http://www.uclahealth.org/body.cfm?id=479&action=detail&ref=4591
E-Mail: defurst@mednet.ucla.edu
Interests: clinical pharmacology of anti-rheumatic drugs and biologics; pathophysiology and treatment of progressive systemic sclerosis
Contribution:
Special Issue: Neglected Diseases: Public Health and Environmental Studies
Prof. Dr. Peter M. George
Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch School of Medicine, P.O. Box 151, Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel. +1 643 364 0300
E-Mail: peter.george@cdhb.govt.nz
Interests: clinical chemistry; diagnostics; lead
Prof. Dr. Ulf-G. Gerdtham
Department of Clinical Sciences, Department of Economics, Lund University, P.O. Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden
Tel. +46 (0)46 222 48 10; Fax: +46 (0)46 222 41 18
Website: http://www.nek.lu.se/hem/hep.asp
E-Mail: ulf.gerdtham@nek.lu.se
Interests: health economics; health econometrics; inequalities in health; economics of health behaviour; international health expenditure; health system and organization
Contribution:
Special Issue: Health Economics
Special Issue: Inequalities in Health
Prof. Dr. Lynn R. Goldman
Hopkins National Children's Study Center, 615 N. Wolfe St., Room E6636, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Tel. (410) 614-9301; Fax: (443) 287-7375
Website: http://faculty.jhsph.edu/Default.cfm?faculty_id=912
E-Mail: lgoldman@jhsph.edu
Interests: environmental health; environmental policy; children; infants; lead; methylmercury; pesticides; chemicals; environmental epidemiology; national children\'s study; emergency preparedness and response; homeland security
Contribution:
Special Issue: Global Environment and Children Health
Prof. Dr. Lawrence O. Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, Georgetown University, 600 New Jersey Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20001, USA
Website: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/facinfo/tab_faculty.cfm?Status=Faculty&ID=258
E-Mail: gostin@law.georgetown.edu
Interests: constitutional law; health law and bioethics; international human rights
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Modern Trends in Legal Scholarship: Emerging Doctrines and Theories
Dr. Thomas K. Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, 6475 Christie Ave., Ste 400, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Tel. +1 510 597 3440; Fax: +1 510 985 6459
Website: http://www.arg.org/staff/staff_detail.php?id=4
E-Mail: tgreenfield@arg.org
Interests: the epidemiology of alcohol use and problems; alcohol policy studies; regulatory environments and externalities; alcohol-related problem and consumption measurement; drinking patterns and mortality, alcohol related health disparities; cultural and ethnic variations in drinking behavior; services research and consumer satisfaction with services
Contribution:
Special Issue: Environmental Research on Alcohol: Public Health Perspectives
Dr. Mary Lynn Haasch
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Mid-Continent Ecology Division, Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Research Branch, 6201 Congdon Blvd, Duluth, MN 55804, USA
Tel. +1 218 529 5172; Fax: +1 218 529 5003
E-Mail: haasch.mary@epa.gov
Interests: environmental toxicology; aquatic toxicology; endocrine disruption; nanotoxicology; developmental toxicology; physiological and biochemical daptation to anthropogenic stress; biotransformation; lower vertebrate and invertebrate models of human disease; regulation of gene expression; biomarkers of xenobiotic exposure
Contribution:
Special Issue: Environmental Nanoparticles and Their Toxicity
Prof. Dr. David J. Hanson
State University of New York College at Potsdam, Department of Sociology, 112 Breckenridge Place, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
Tel. +1 919 942 5115
Website: http://www.alcoholinformation.org/
E-Mail: hansondj@potsdam.edu
Interests: impact of drinking beverage alcohol on health; effective ways to reduce alcohol abuse in a population
Contribution:
Special Issue: Alcohol and Public Health
Special Issue: Alcohol Abuse: Newer Approaches to an Old Problem
Prof. Dr. William E. Hawkins
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, The University of Southern Mississippi, 703 East Beach Drive, Ocean Springs, MS 39564, USA
Tel. +1 228 872 4215; Fax: +1 228 818 8848
Website: http://www.gulfbase.org/person/view.php?uid=whawkins
E-Mail: william.hawkins@usm.edu
Interests: marine environment; aquatic toxicology; aquatic pathobiology; water quality
Prof. Dr. George Herkovits
Institute of Environmental Sciences and Health, Fundacion PROSAMA, Paysandu, 752/760, (1405) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel. +54 11 4432 1111; Fax: +54 11 4431 2445
E-Mail: herkovit@mail.retina.ar
Interests: toxicity test and development of hazard assessment criteria; antagonism and synergism phenomena; low level exposure and acclimation phenomena; risk assessment; teratogenesis; chemical stress and evolutionary processes
Prof. Dr. Takeshi Hirano
Department of Life and Environment Engineering Faculty of Environmental Engineering, University of Kitakyushu 1-1, Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu Fukuoka, 808-0135, Japan
Tel. +81 93 695 3206; Fax: +81 93 695 3299
Website: http://www.kitakyu-u.ac.jp/env/lang_en/faculty/life/takeshi_hirano.html
E-Mail: t-hirano@kitakyu-u.ac.jp
Interests: cancer development; stem cell differentiation; estrogenic substances and liver; oxidative DNA damage and its repair system
Dr. Rachel Huxley
The George Institute, Level 10, King George V Building, Missenden Road, Camperdown, Sydney, PO Box M201, Missenden Road, Camperdown, Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia
Tel. +61 2 9993 4569; Fax: +61 2 9993 4501
Website: http://www.thegeorgeinstitute.org/
E-Mail: rhuxley@george.org.au
Interests: Impact of major and modifiable lifestyle risk factors (e.g. obesity, smoking, diabetes etc) on CVD and cancer outcomes
Contribution:
Special Issue: Obesity and Public Health
Dr. Zubair Kabir
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Website: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/zubair-kabir/publications/
E-Mail: zkabir@hsph.harvard.edu
Contribution:
Special Issue: Tobacco Control in Vulnerable Population Groups
Dr. Jennifer Kahende
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 4770 Buford Highway, NE., Mailstop K-50, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Tel. +1 770 488 5279
E-Mail: jkahende@cdc.gov
Interests: tobacco research; public health; health disparities; health economics; HIV/AIDS prevention; health promotion and disease prevention
Contribution:
Special Issue: Smoking and Tobacco Control
Special Issue: Tobacco Smoking and Public Health
Special Issue: Tobacco Smoking: Public Health, Science and Policy
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Knopp
Institute of Hydrochemistry and Chair for Analytical Chemistry, Group Bioanalytics, Technische Universität München, Marchioninistr. 17, 81377 München, Germany
Website: http://www.ws.chemie.tu-muenchen.de/groups/bioanalytic/people0/knopp/
E-Mail: dietmar.knopp@ch.tum.de
Interests: immunoassays; immunoanalysis; ELISA; CLEIA; immunoaffinity chromatography; automated flow-immunoassay; sol-gel chemistry; dipstick; microarray; immunochips; antibody generation; environmental analysis; food analysis; haptens; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; mycotoxins; pesticides; diclofenac; molecularly imprinted polymers; functionalized nanomaterials
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Biochips
Prof. Dr. Peter Lercher
Division of Social Medicine, Medical University Innsbruck, Sonnenburgstraße 16, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Tel. +43 0512 9003 71253; Fax: +43 0512 9003 73251
Website: http://www.i-med.ac.at/sozialmedizin/de/personal/peter_lercher.html
E-Mail: peter.lercher@i-med.ac.at
Interests: environmental and social epidemiology; environmental health impact assessment; noise/vibration and air pollution; combined effects; quality of life
Contribution:
Special Issue: Noise and Quality of Life
Special Issue: The Protection of Quiet Areas as a Public Health Aim Towards Sustainable Health: Approaches, Case Studies and Implementation
Special Issue: Sound and Health related Quality of Life
Dr. Jason K. Levy
Homeland Security, National Homeland Security Project, L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University, 923 W. Franklin St., Box 842028, Richmond, VA 23284, USA
Tel. +1 804 828 8040
Website: http://www.vcu.edu/homeland
E-Mail: jklevy@vcu.edu
Interests: emergency management; risk assessment; natural hazards; geomatics engineering; chemical sensors
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Sensors for Disaster and Emergency Management Decision Making
Dr. Robert W. Marans
Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan; Professor Emeritus of Architecture & Urban Planning, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, USA
Tel. +1 734 763 9818
E-Mail: marans@umich.edu
Interests: contributions of the built/natural environment to physical activity/health; quality of urban life, recreation behavior
Dr. Aizen J. Marrogi
ChemBio Program, Division of Experimental Therapeutics, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
E-Mail: aizen.marrogi@amedd.army.mil
Interests: carcinogenesis; the role of oxidative and nitrosative stress in cancer biology; drug discovery using botanical extracts
Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Mawson
University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, USA
Website: http://www.umc.edu/
E-Mail: amawson@prevmed.umsmed.edu
Interests: epidemiology; public health; pediatrics; injury; aggression; vaccines; health disparities; retinoids; violence; social factors; psychosocial factors; behavior; asthma; autism; pregnancy related conditions; adverse birth outcomes
Contribution:
Special Issue: Advances of Public Health in USA
Prof. Dr. Yogeshkumar S. Naik
Department of Environmental Science and Health, Faculty of Applied Sciences, National University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box AC-939, Ascot Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Tel. +263 9 282 007 ext 2179, Mobile: +263 23 255 245; Fax: +263 9 286 803
E-Mail: yoginaik@nust.ac.zw
Interests: biochemical ecotoxicology; xenobiotic metabolism; biomarkers
Prof. Dr. Orish Ebere Orisakwe
Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Management, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
E-Mail: eorish@aol.com
Interests: environmental toxicology; male reproductive toxicology (effects of environmental toxicants on male reproductive capacity) and toxicokinetics
Dr. Eugenio Picano
Institute of Clinical Physiology, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Website: http://www.ifc.cnr.it/
E-Mail: picano@ifc.cnr.it
Interests: acute and long-term effects of ionizing radiation in diagnostic and therapeutic cardiology procedures; health technology assessment; biological and economic sustainability of medical imaging
Contribution:
Special Issue: Public Health: How Safe Is Cardiac Imaging?
Dr. Miriam C. Poirier
Carcinogen-DNA Interactions Section, LCBG, Bldg.37 Rm 4032, National Cancer Institute, NIH, 37 Convent Dr. MSC-4255, Bethesda, MD, 20892-4255, USA
Tel. 301-402-1835; Fax: 301-402-8230
Website: http://ccr.cancer.gov/staff/staff.asp?profileid=13714
E-Mail: poirierm@exchange.nih.gov
Interests: molecular biomarkers of cancer; molecular toxicology; DNA adduct formation; mutagenesis; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposures; metabolism of PAHs; chemoprevention of DNA damage and cancer
Contribution:
Special Issue: Biomarkers: Environmental Research and Public Health
Prof. Dr. Marilyn C. Roberts
Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357234, Seattle, Washington 98195-7234, USA
Tel. +1 206 543 8001; Fax: +1 206 543 3873
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/marilynr/
E-Mail: marilynr@u.washington.edu
Interests: bacterial pathogenesis; plasmids; bacterial genetics; bacteria antibiotic resistance genes and gene exchange; emerging and reemerging diseases; dental caries; periodontal disease; molecular epidemiology; bacterial mercury resistance
Contribution:
Special Issue: Drug Resistance
Dr. Kathryn M. Rose
Cardiovascular Disease Program, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 137 E Franklin Street, Suite 306, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
Tel. +1 919 966 1967; Fax: +1 919 966 9800
Website: http://www.sph.unc.edu/images/stories/cv_storage/702763270_cv.pdf
E-Mail: kathryn_rose@unc.edu
Interests: cardiovascular disease epidemiology; socioeconomic and geographic health disparities; population-based cardiovascular disease surveillance
Contribution:
Special Issue: Cardiovascular Diseases and Public Health
Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Rudatsikira
School of Health Professions, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, USA
Website: http://www.andrews.edu/news/2012/05/shp_dean.html
E-Mail: rudatsikira@andrews.edu
Interests: tobacco use; exposure to environmental tobacco smoke; violence; emergency preparedness and response; HIV/AIDS and adolescent health
Contribution:
Special Issue: Preparedness and Emergency Response
Dr. Ashraf M. Salama
Reader in Architecture SPACE, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Tel. +44 (0) 2890 974015, ext.: 4015; Fax: +44 2890 974278
E-Mail: a.salama@qub.ac.uk
Interests: social and cultural factors in design; evaluation of designed environments / POE; contextual-sustainable urban conservation; design briefing & strategic facility planning; eco-tourism – sustainable facilities for tourism; learning environments – sustainable schools design process; workplace programming and design; identity and symbolism in contemporary middle eastern urbanism - emerging regional metropolis in the middle east
Prof. Dr. Miklas Scholz
School of Computing, Science and Engineering, The University of Salford, Newton Building, Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, England, UK
Tel. +44 161 295 5921
Website: http://www.cse.salford.ac.uk/profile.php?profile=M.Scholz
E-Mail: m.scholz@salford.ac.uk
Interests: stormwater management; runoff control; filtration; wetlands; sustainable water management
Contribution:
Special Issue: Sustainability: Environmental Studies and Public Health
In other journals:
Special Issue: Sustainable Water Management
Special Issue: Sustainable Flood Risk Management
Special Issue: Sustainable Water Systems
Prof. Dr. Ken Sexton
University of Texas School of Public Health, Brownsville Regional Campus, 80 Fort Brown – AHC, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA
E-Mail: ken.sexton@uth.tmc.edu
Interests: human exposure analysis; health risk assessment; environmental risk management; environmental health policy; business environment interactions
Contribution:
Special Issue: Cumulative Health Risk Assessment
Prof. Dr. Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Department of Philosophy and Department of Biological Sciences, 100 Malloy Hall, University of Notre Dame, 100 Malloy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Website: http://philosophy.nd.edu/people/all/profiles/shrader-frechette-kristin/
E-Mail: kshrader@nd.edu
Interests: environmentally induced cancer; ionizing radiation dose-response curves; developmental programming because of pollution
Professor John D. Spengler
Exposure, Epidemiology & Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, P.O. Box 15677, Landmark 406 W, 401 Park Dr., Boston, MA 02215, USA Contact Assistant: Joan Arnold E-Mail: jarnold@hsph.harvard.edu
Tel. +1-617-384-8810; Fax: +1-617-384-8819
E-Mail: spengler@hsph.harvard.edu
Interests: indoor air pollution; exposure assessment; environmental epidemiology; housing and health; sustainability
Contribution:
Special Issue: Indoor Air Pollution and Human Health
Special Issue: Energy Conservation Measures, Indoor Air Quality and Health
Prof. Dr. Steven Y. Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, 1000 S. Fremont Avenue, Unit 8, Building A-5, Suite #5228, Alhambra, CA 91803, USA
Website: http://www.usc.edu/programs/pibbs/site/faculty/sussman_s.htm
E-Mail: ssussma@usc.edu
Contribution:
Special Issue: Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Co-Occurrence and Specificity
Prof. Dr. Harry Timmermans
Professor of Urban Planning, Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Arcitecture, Building & Planning, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 (0)402472274
Website: http://www.ddss.nl/Eindhoven/staff/Harry.Timmermans
E-Mail: h.j.p.timmermans@tue.nl
Interests: methodology; geography & urban planning
Prof. Dr. William A. Toscano
Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Tel. +1 612 624 2967; Fax: +1 612 626 4837
Website: http://enhs.umn.edu/
E-Mail: tosca001@umn.edu
Interests: toxicology; environmental hormones; public health genomics; environmental signaling
Prof. Dr. Gustavo Turecki
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University/ Douglas Mental Health Institute, Frank B. Common Pavilion, F-2101, 6875 LaSalle Boulevard Montreal, Quebec H4H 1R3, Canada
Website: http://www.douglasresearch.qc.ca/researcher/gustavo-turecki
E-Mail: gustavo.turecki@mcgill.ca
Interests: suicide; depressive disorders; early-life adversity; neurobiology; epigenetics
Contribution:
Special Issue: Suicide Prevention and Public Health
Prof. Dr. John P. Ulhoi
Centre for Organizational Renewal and Evolution, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Haslegaarden, Bld. D, Room 530, Denmark
Website: http://www.asb.dk/staff/jpu
E-Mail: jpu@asb.dk
Interests: the interplay between: (i) anthropogenic factors (industry and technology) and the natural environment, (ii) human and technical factors and (iii) public and private agency; green innovation and entrepreneurship
Prof. Dr. Willem Van Mechelen
Head Department of Public and Occupational Health, Co-director EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, van der Boechorststraat 7, NL-1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 20 4448206; Fax: +31 20 4448387
Website: http://www.emgo.nl/team/214/willemvanmechelen/personal-information/
E-Mail: w.vanmechelen@vumc.nl
Interests: return-to-work interventions; cost-effectiveness; health promotion; sports injuries; physical fitness; physical activity; lifestyle
Dr. Scott A. Venners
Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Health Sciences, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Tel. +1 778 782 8494; Fax: +1 778 782 5927
Website: http://www.fhs.sfu.ca/portal_memberdata/svenners
E-Mail: scott_venners@sfu.ca
Interests: molecular environmental epidemiology; biomarkers; gene-environment interactions; fertility; pregnancy outcome
Contribution:
Special Issue: Advances in Epidemiology
Dr. Joris Cornelis Verster
Utrecht University, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Division of Pharmacology, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 30 253 6909; Fax: +31 30 253 7900
E-Mail: j.c.verster@uu.nl
Interests: effects of drugs on driving and traffic safety; drug abuse and addiction; sleep and sleep disorders
Prof. Dr. Wendy E. Wagner
The University of Texas School of Law, 727 East Dean Keeton Street, Austin, Texas 78705, USA; Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
Website: http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/profile.php?id=wewagner
E-Mail: wwagner@law.utexas.edu
Interests: the use of science in environmental and health policy; the role of special interests in producing or influencing research used for regulation; the expression of limitations and uncertainty in policy-relevant research; disclosures of conflicts of interest and data-sharing in applied research
Contribution:
Special Issue: Environmental Legislation and Public Health
Dr. Youfa Wang
International Health and Epidemiology, Center for Human Nutrition, Rm E2546, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Tel. +1 410 502 3102; Fax: 410 955 0196
Website: http://faculty.jhsph.edu/default.cfm?faculty_id=1571
E-Mail: ywang@jhsph.edu
Interests: nutrition; epidemiology; obesity; chronic disease; health disparities; lifestyles; dairy consumption; international health; analysis of national survey data
Prof. Dr. Philip Weinstein
Deputy Head of School, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Australia
Tel. +61733655065
Website: http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/philip.weinstein
E-Mail: p.weinstein@uq.edu.au
Interests: healthy ageing; global health; behaviour and health outcomes; infectious disease; longitudinal studies; life course epidemiology; health services; health information systems; emergency prehospital systems
Prof. Dr. Tetsuji Yamada
Professor of Health Economics, Rutgers University, #330 Armitage Hall, 311 North 5th Street, Camden, NJ 08102, USA
Tel. +1 856 225 6136
Website: http://economics.camden.rutgers.edu/faculty/tetsuji-yamada/
E-Mail: tyamada@crab.rutgers.edu
Interests: health economics; economics of health behavior; public health and health promotion; economics of social welfare and public policy; health education
Contribution:
Special Issue: Health Behavior and Public Health
Prof. Dr. Paul S.F. Yip
Director Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, Professor Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong
Tel. +852 2859-1989; Fax: +852 2858-9041
Website: http://www0.hku.hk/statistics/staff/sfpyip/
E-Mail: sfpyip@hku.hk
Interests: capture-recapture experiments; analysis of infectious diseases data; modelling of biological and ecological systems; analysis of suicide data; conditional inference; software reliability
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