Healthy Communities, Workplaces, & Lifestyles
The health and well-being of communities is dependent on a multitude of factors. Environmental sustainability touches many of them: community food systems, green space & urban tree canopy, and access to clean, drinkable water among them. Sometimes oversimplified to an issue of choice, the health status and lifestyle choices of community members are often a byproduct of the systems – political, economic, social – in which they exist. Many JHU affiliates study and implement methods to increase agency and accessibility to resources within communities across impact areas.-
Gregory B. Diette
Associate ProfessorGregory Diette, MD, focuses on identifying factors that cause or provoke asthma. His team has been interested especially in air pollutants (particulate matter, NO2, secondhand smoke) and allergens (including mouse) that are especially problematic in inner city homes. They are studying the effects of these pollutants and allergens on inflammation and oxidative stress. More recently, they have begun examing how dietary patterns, especially a Western style diet may increase susceptibility to inhalable pollutants and allergens. -
Mary A. Fox
Assistant ProfessorMary Fox, PhD '01, MPH, develops cumulative risk assessments that consider how biological, chemical, environmental, and social factors together affect the public's health. -
Hunter Gehlbach
Professor of Education; Director, PhD program; Faculty Co-Director Education, Institute for Planetary HealthHunter Gehlbach, MEd, MA, PhD, develops psychological principles for telling better stories about the planet’s health—especially the principles we might leverage to motivate others to prioritize sustainability. His lab works to develop effective narrative approaches to climate education and communication impacts so that we can develop the relationships, will, and collective solutions that our children are depending on. -
Julian Gendreau
Physician ResearcherJulian Gendreau, MD, focuses on quality improvement initiatives within clinical neurosurgery and medical device development for improving surgical outcomes. He is currently interested in applied radiomics within neurosurgery. -
Ryan Kennedy
Associate ProfessorRyan Kennedy, PhD, is a behavioral scientist who works to advance tobacco control policies in the U.S. and around the world. -
Nicole Labruto
Assistant Research Professor; Director, Program in Medicine, Science, and the HumanitiesNicole Labruto, PhD, explores the intersection of life forms, landscapes, and labor in relation to postcolonial biologies.
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