Johns Hopkins Occupational & Environmental Hygiene Program

And that's a wrap for this year's Anna Baetjer Class! JHU ERC Johns Hopkins Environmental Health & Engineering

Another great Anna Baetjer class visit!

The Anna Baetjer Class is off to a great start with a visit to the museum of industry! Here in front of the Linotype!

The lab class in full swing!

And that's a wrap for the booth at AIHcE 2023 Phoenix

Thank you, Mary Doyle for another great year at the AIHcE. Best of luck on your retirement! We will miss you!!!

Great visit to a Baltimore-based biotech company

Important work by one of our recent ERC graduates.

Exploring U.S. Food System Workers’ Intentions to Work While Ill during the Early COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Survey With “stay at home” orders in effect during early COVID-19, many United States (U.S.) food system workers attended in-person work to maintain national food supply chain operations. Anecdotally, many encountered barriers to staying home despite symptomatic COVID-19 illness. We conducted a...

Congratulations to the Somerset County Health Department and Marylanders for Food & Farm Worker Protection Coalition for their shared commitment to meeting the health needs of food and farmworkers in Maryland!
Maryland Pesticide Education Network - MPEN

Great final presentations by our masters students in OEH Casey McPhillips and Yipeng Liu! Thanks for the great support of their internship mentors, Dan Anna and Bruce Lippy!

Wrapping up the IH lab with post-calibration of air monitoring equipment

Learning how to measure air flow in hoods and ducts with Dr. Peter Lees.

Results from a recent pilot study looking at chemical exposures of salon workers was featured in the most recent issue of the Johns Hopkins BSPH magazine: https://magazine.jhsph.edu/2022/beautys-byproducts

OEH faculty member Dr. Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá is the primary investigator.

Beauty’s Byproducts | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine Dyes, relaxers, and conditioners give salon clients the styles they want—and leave salon workers with a potentially dangerous chemical burden.

Dr. Ana Rule was featured in this recent article in the Johns Hopkins BSPH magazine:
https://magazine.jhsph.edu/2022/circulation-problems

Preventing Airborne Spread of Covid-19 and Other Respiratory Diseases | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine Why it took so long to acknowledge that Covid-19 is airborne—and what we need to do now.

Great session of the Anna Baetjer Course during the summer institute! Thanks for a great class!

Happy to see many people at the Hopkins Booth during AIHcE! Not a lot of photos but many good memories!

Hope to see many people Monday in Nashville!

Wrapping up the Anna Baetjer course. So happy to be able to resume in-person visits!

Why Are Concerning Ingredients So Common in Beauty Products? "It’s a really serious problem that we’re not aware of.”

OEH faculty member Ana Maria Rule, PhD recently presented preliminary results from her E-cigarette research during a Keystone Science lecture. Her talk was very well received.
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E-cigarettes expose users to toxic metals such as arsenic, lead (Environmental Factor, February 2022) Preliminary results from the NIEHS-funded EMIT study were shared by Ana María Rule, Ph.D., from Johns Hopkins University, during her Jan. 19 Keystone Science Lecture.

Finished another successful term of the IH lab class! It was great to teach in person, and such a great group of students!

We really enjoyed having our first in-person class in over a year. Six part-time MS OEH students recently joined us for a 2-week summer offering of the Industrial Hygiene Laboratory course. Thank you to Dr. Ana Rule, PhD and her student assistants for teaching the course.

Congratulations to Ryan Hines for an excellent master's project seminar last Friday! We had a small in person audience and others joined through Zoom, so Ryan successfully navigated some technical difficulties to give great presentation. Dr. Gurumurthy Ramachandran is Ryan's advisor.

We are excited that Ryan plans to continue in our department as a new doctoral student in the Environmental Epidemiology and Exposure Sciences track.

Well done, Ryan!

Environmental Health News highlighted some preliminary research findings published recently by Dr. Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá and colleagues. Research support comes from the NIOSH ERC-funded pilot project program. Please read about it here: https://www.ehn.org/phthalates-hair-care-cosmetics-2653590699.html

Black and Latinx hairdressers exposed to high levels of phthalates The clouds of v***r in Katrina Randolph's salon that lingered after she and her stylists worked on customers' hair in tight quarters all day made her uneasy.

We are very proud of our 2020-21 MS OEH grads! Clockwise from top left: Amanda Bewley, Jessica Mclellan, John Wyluda, Danielle Edwards, Caleb Ginorio Gonzalez, Andy Glode, Audrey Bowen and Juliana Rico. Congratulations everyone on your accomplishment!

Congratulations to Caleb Ginorio Gonzalez and John Wyluda for completing the final degree requirements for their MS OEH degrees. Great projects and presentations John and Caleb!

A conversation with OEH faculty member Dr. Ana Rule, PhD was featured in the most recent issue of the JHU Hub:

https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/05/05/environmental-toll-of-covid-19/?mc_cid=8c52866726&mc_eid=caf799b0dd

The environmental toll of fighting COVID-19 Masks, gloves, and chemical disinfectants will outlast the pandemic. Environmental engineer Ana María Rule says there are better alternatives to plastics and harsh chemicals.