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
aguilada@umich.edu
Mentor: Justin Colacino, PhD

Haley Jenkins, MPH, RD
hmjenkins@umich.edu
Research interests: Pesticides, neurodevelopment, maternal and child health, and environmental epidemiology
Mentor:  Deborah Watkins, PhD

Ram Siwakoti, MS
siwakoti@umich.edu
Research interests: Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), environmental epidemiology, and risk assessment
Mentors: John Meeker, PhD and Deborah Watkins, PhD

Jennifer Smith
smitjen@umich.edu
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
ssturla@umich.edu
Mentor: Deborah Watkins, PhD

Lauren Ward
lmward@umich.edu
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
adriamo@umich.edu
Research interests:
Environmental organic pollutants (environmental/ /human matrices), environmental toxicology, public health; risk assessment
Mentor: Stuart Batterman, PhD

Katherine Halloran, PhD
kathal@umich.edu
Research interests: Environmental exposure, endocrine disruption, female reproduction and fertility
Mentor: Vasantha Padmanabhan, PhD

Mislael A. Valentin-Cortes, PhD, MPH, MSW
mislaelvc@umich.edu
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
kaleyj@umich.edu