Environmental Toxicology And Epidemiology Training Grant - Trainees
Supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH
Current Trainees
Predoctoral Graduate Students in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences
David Aguilar
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Mentor: Justin Colacino, PhD
Haley Jenkins, MPH, RD
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Research interests: Pesticides, neurodevelopment, maternal and child health, and environmental epidemiology
Mentor: Deborah Watkins, PhD
Ram Siwakoti, MS
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Research interests: Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), environmental epidemiology, and risk
assessment
Mentors: John Meeker, PhD and Deborah Watkins, PhD
Jennifer Smith
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Research interests: Maternal/fetal health, epigenetics changes that occur as a result of in utero toxicological
exposures, changes to adult neuropsychiatry as a result of in utero epigenetic modifications
Mentor: Dana Dolinoy, PhD
Savannah Sturla
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Mentor: Deborah Watkins, PhD
Lauren Ward
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Research Interests: Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), immunotoxicity, occupational health, environmental
epidemiology, community-engaged research
Mentor: Jackie Goodrich, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellows in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Adriana Torres Moreno, PhD
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Research interests: Environmental organic pollutants (environmental/ /human matrices), environmental toxicology,
public health; risk assessment
Mentor: Stuart Batterman, PhD
Katherine Halloran, PhD
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Research interests: Environmental exposure, endocrine disruption, female reproduction and fertility
Mentor: Vasantha Padmanabhan, PhD
Mislael A. Valentin-Cortes, PhD, MPH, MSW
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Research interests: Social and environmental epidemiology, climate change and disasters, structural
health inequities, mixed-methods approaches in epidemiology, mental health, reproductive
health, global health
Mentors: Deborah Watkins, PhD, Marie O'Neill, PhD, and Alexis Handal, PhD
For More Information:
Kaley James M.Ed, CHES
Environmental Toxicology and Epidemiology Program
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
1415 Washington Heights
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
Phone: 734-936-9749
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