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DEPARTMENT OF

ENVIRONMENTAL & PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES

Ranked in top 5% within the University of Cincinnati in annual grants and contracts.

Welcome

The Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences at the University of Cincinnati is committed to studying how environmental factors negatively impact human health, how to recognize and prevent these effects, and how to improve public health through clinical care and health care policy.

The department is part of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Medicine and is home to a dynamic, collaborative, and highly interactive faculty conducting bleeding-edge research and training the next generation of leaders in environmental science, occupational medicine, and public health. 

The department offers a variety of graduate programs, and a clinical fellowship, and is the home of pre-and post-doctoral training programs funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

Our interdisciplinary programs include approximately xx faculty and subject matter experts from multiple colleges at the University of Cincinnati, governmental agencies, including NIOSH, the Environmental Protection Agency, and multiple health departments in the region.

The impact of our research, education, and clinical programs is leading the way to effectively improve the health of our communities.

National Institute's of Health Grant Renewed for Teen-LABS Research Center

The Teen-LABS Biostatistical Research Center has been awarded a grant renewal in the amount of $1,066,072 by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health. Co-principal investigators on the grant are Changchun Xie, PhD, associate professor of biostatistics in the Department of Environmental Health, and Todd Jenkins, PhD, MPH, a research assistant professor in the Department of Surgery and Department of Pediatrics, also with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

Teen-LABS, which began in 2007, will continue to evaluate the long-term beneficial treatment effects and adverse outcomes of weight loss surgery performed in adolescents, with the Biostatistics Research Center leading the data collection and management of statistical analysis operations.

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Department of Environmental & Public Health Sciences
Kettering Lab Building
160 Panzeca Way
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0056
Mail Location: 0056

Phone: 513-558-5701