Research DayInsights Along the Path to Sustainability
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Presentation of work supported by the CLF Faculty and Student Innovation Grants 2008 Agenda for 2008 Research Day Audio Files HEALTH IMPACTS OF FOOD AVAILABILITY AND ACCESS Availability of Healthy Foods in Baltimore Neighborhoods: Impact on Diet Quality and Body Mass Index
MANUEL FRANCO, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Epidemiology Food Availability and Changes in Weight in Metropolitan Cebu, Philippines (1983-2002)
ARANTXA COLCHERO, PhD, MS, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico HEALTH IMPACTS OF CONSUMPTION AND EXPOSURES Meat Consumption and Cancer: Assessment of Dietary Exposure to Heterocyclic Amines and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
NICOLE CARDELLO DEZIEL, PhD, MHS, Westat, Rockville, MD Stable Carbon Isotope Signatures in Human Blood from 200 Individuals: A potential biochemical assay for the consumption of high fructose corn syrup
REBECCA A. KRAFT, Doctoral Student, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences The Efficacy of Low-technology, Low-cost Water Filters in Removing Pathogens and Preventing Disease During Long-term Household Use
KATHERINE WESTPHAL, MPH Student, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response Cryptosporidium Exposure Associated with Crabbing within Urban Baltimore Watersheds
CYNTHIA CHIOMA MCOLIVER, MPH, Doctoral Student, Department of Environmental Health Sciences FOOD SECURITY IMPACTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES A Pilot Comparison of Food Security and Agricultural Sustainability in Nepal: Adapters of Integrated Pest Management Versus Non-adapters
AMIR POUDEL, Master’s Student, Environmental Science and Policy, Advanced Academic Program Ram Pump Irrigation Systems in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa: Impacts on Food Security, Water Usage, and Subsistence Agriculture
Maura Dwyer, MPH, Doctoral Student, Environmental Health Sciences
PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF INDUSTRIAL FOOD ANIMAL PRODUCTION Environmental Pathways of Exposure to Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria: The Role of Poultry Litter Disposal Practices
JAY GRAHAM, PhD, Scientific Advisor, Center for a Livable Future Tetracycline Transport Through Poultry Farm Soils and Aquifer Materials: Influence on BacterialTetracycline Resistance
MARKUS HILPERT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering Animal Feed Components and the Impacts of Land-applying Manure on Soil Bacterial Biodiversity and Antibiotic Resistance
AMY R. SAPKOTA, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, UMCP School of Public Health The Community at Risk: Public Health Issues in Industrial Food Animal Production
ELLEN K. SILBERGELD, PhD, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences 
2005
EXPOSURE, DIETARY AND CONSUMPTION ISSUES
Environmental Exposures to Polybrominated Diphenyl Oxides In Food, Thyroid Hormone Status and Birth Weight For Gestational Age (Update)
LYNN R. GOLDMAN, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
JULIE HERBTSMAN, ScM, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Epidemiology(Presenter)
Effect of Lifestyle on Mother/Infant Exposure to Ubiquitous Pollutants
ROLF U. HALDEN, PhD, PE, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Forest Food: The Health of Wild and Domestic Food Animals in Central African Forests
AMY E. PETERSON, DVM, Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology (Presenter)
NATHAN D. WOLFE, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, JH Cameroon Project
Social Environmental Influences of Dietary Consumption and the Impact on Obesity During Adolescence
MIA A. PAPAS, MS, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Epidemiology (Presenter)
KATHY J. HELZLSOUER, MD, MHS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Meat Consumption and Cancer: Evaluation of Methods to Assess Dietary Exposure to Heterocyclic Amines and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
NICOLE CARDELLO DEZIEL, MHS, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE AND THE ROLE OF INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL PRACTICES
Tracking Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria from Industrial Animal Production
LANCE B. PRICE, MS, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Genetic Characterization of Antibiotic-resistant Bacterial Pathogens Detected in Air, Water and Lagoon Samples Collected at a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
KELLOGG J. SCHWAB, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Antimicrobial Resistance in Farm Animals in Rural Bangladesh and the Impact on Human Carriage of Resistant Bacteria
AMIRA A. ROESS, MPH, Doctoral Candidate, Department of International Health
FARMING PRACTICES AND HUMAN HEALTH
The Impact of Poultry Litter as Fertilizer on the Bacteriological Quality of Leafy Vegetables
JAY P. GRAHAM, MBA, MPH, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Municipal Sludge Disposal and Sustainable Agriculture: A Pilot Study Showcasing the Challenge of Combining the Two
ROLF U. HALDEN, PhD, PE, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
COMMUNITY AND OCCUPATIONAL IMPACTS OF INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL PRODUCTION
The Geography of Occupational Injury and Illness in the Meat Products Industries: Economic, Demographic, Social, and Political Risk Factors
RONI A. NEFF, ScM, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Health Policy and Management
Ecological and Community Health Impacts of Industrial Food Animal Production Practices (Continuation of project Community Health Risks of Agricultural; Antibiotic Use in the Poultry Industry)
ELLEN K. SILBERGELD, PhD, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
2004
PROBLEMS IN MEETING BASIC NEEDS Point-of-use Water Treatment for Internally Displaced Persons in Liberia
GILBERT M. BURNHAM, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of International Health
SHANNON DOOCY, PhD, Research Associate, Department of International Health An Exploratory Study for Promoting Sustainable Solutions for Food Security Through Youth Clubs in Rural Mozambique
ANBARASI EDWARD-RAJ, PhD, MPH, Research Associate, Department of International Health HUMAN EXPOSURE TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Triclocarban – A Previously Unrecognized Contaminant of U.S. Water Resources
ROLF U. HALDEN, PhD, PE , Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) on Thyroid Hormone Status, Birthweight and Gestational Age
JULIE B. HERBSTMAN, ScM, Doctoral Student, Department of Epidemiology Assessment of Environmental Load of Cryptosporidium to Water
THADDEUS GRACZYK, PhD, MSc, Associate Professor, Dept of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology HUMAN EXPOSURE ASSOCIATED WITH ANIMAL PRODUCTION PRACTICES
Proteomic Approach to Monitoring Microbes in Waste Streams from Animal Production Facilities
JOCHEN HEIDLER, MS, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Environmental Health Sciences Chicken: An Inexpensive Source of High Quality Protein and Drug-Resistant Bacteria.
LANCE B. PRICE, MS, Doctoral Student, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Center for a Livable Future, Pre-doctoral Fellow Community Health Risks of Agricultural Antibiotic Use
ELLEN K. SILBERGELD, PhD, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
2003
ADEQUATE, HEALTHY FOOD FOR ALL Formative Research for a Food Store-Based Environmental Intervention in Baltimore City: Results and Future Directions
JOEL GITTELSOHN, PhD, Associate Professor, International Health MEASURING HUMAN EXPOSURE FROM SPECIFIC SOURCES Environmental Exposures to Food Contaminants and Neurodevelopment in Children
JENNIFER MAMMEN, MD/PhD CANDIDATE, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Fluoroquinoline-resistant Campylobacter Carriage on US Retail Poultry products: Comparison of Poultry Grown With and Without Antibiotics
LANCE B. PRICE, DOCTORAL STUDENT, Research Associate, Environmental Health Sciences CONTAMINATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT Environmental Fate of Antimicrobials in Personal Care Products: Implications for Agriculturally Applied Sewage Sludge and Human Breast Milk
DANIEL PAULL, BS, Research Intern, Environmental Health Sciences
ROLF U. HALDEN, PhD, PE, Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences Transmission of Human Enteric Parasites by Filth Flies Associated With Wastewater Systems and Animal Operations
THADDEUS K. GRACZYK, MSC, PhD, Associate Research Professor, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Researching Household and Environmental Antibiotic Use and Human Pathogen Resistance in Developing Countries: The Case of Rural Bangladesh
AMIRA A. ROESS, MPH, PhD CANDIDATE, International Health
A project within the study: Community Based Interventions to Reduce Neonatal Mortality in Rural Bangladesh (Sylhet) WORKING TO INCLUDE ENVIRONMENT AS AN ECONOMIC FACTOR Sustainability, Efficiency and Intertemporal Equity: An Application to the Economics of Forestry
M. ALI KHAN, PhD, Abram G. Hutzler Professor of Political Economy, JHU
2002
HUMAN IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT — RELATED TO FOOD PRODUCTION
Soil Food Webs in Agroecosystems: The Effects of Different Management Practices
KATALIN SZLAVECZ, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Earth & Planetary Sciences Assessing the Health Risks of Antibiotic Use in Food Animal Production
ELLEN SILBERGELD, PhD, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences Evaluation of a Rapid Method for Removal of Solids and Micro-Organisms from Animal Waste Lagoons
ALAIN MADEC, PhD, Post doctoral Fellow, Center for Water and Health, Environmental Health Engineering Development of Tissue Culture Methodology for the Rescue and Propagation of Endangered Moringa Sp. Germplasm
JED FAHEY, MS, Research Associate, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
HUMAN IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT — RELATED TO OTHER HUMAN ACTIVITIES
Assessment of the Air Pollution Source Strength of SUVs Relative to Sedans at a Baltimore City Parking Garage
SUNG R. KIM, PhD CANDIDATE, Environmental Health Sciences
HUGH ELLIS, PhD, Professor & Chairman, Geography and Environmental Engineering
TIM BUCKLEY, PhD, Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences Paleoecological profiles from Areas Where Pfiesteria piscicida Has Been Present
GRACE BRUSH, PhD, Professor, Geography and Environmental Engineering
ANGELA ARNOLD, MSE, PhD CANDIDATE, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering
HOLLY BOWERS, MS, University of Maryland Institute of Human Virology
(Follow-up report from 2001 project)
HUMAN IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT — THE SEARCH FOR SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS
Corporate Humanitarianism & Environmentalism in the Context of the Agricultural Biotechnology Industry: An Investigation into Legal Opportunities and Constraints.
SUSAN BERNARD, JD, MPH, DRPH, Instructor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences The Sustainability of Health in Families Under Stress: A Longitudinal Comparative Study
VEENA DAS, PhD, Professor, Anthropology
RANENDRA KUMAR DAS, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Anthropology
LORI LEONARD, ScD, Assistant Professor, International Health The Marca d'Agua /Watermark Project
MARGARET KECK, PhD, Professor, Political Science, Team For Marca d'Agua
2001
DIET, HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Success and Limitation of a Pilot Store-based Envrionmental Intervention to Improve Diet in the Republic of the Marshal Islands
JOEL GITTELSOHN, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Human Nutrition, International Health Starlink Corn: A Policy Analysis of the Assessment of Allerginicity of Genetically Modified Foods
LYNN GOLDMAN, MD, MPH, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
LUCA BUCCHINI, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Health Sciences CULTURAL FACTORS AFFECTING FOOD CONSUMPTION Soybean Products, Dietary change and the World’s Food Future – Recent Findings and Future Directions
SIDNEY W. MINTZ, PhD, William L. Straus, Jr. Professor (Emeritus) Anthropology Update on Food Security, Gender Equity and Women’s Health in Africa
ADNAN A. HYDER, MD, MPH, PhD, Assistant Research Professor, Division of Community Health and Health Systems; Associate Director, Doctor of Public Health Program (DrPH) in International Health A Third Way: Developing Culturall-based Solutions to the Environmental and Health Consequences of African Forest Hunting
TASSY PROSSER, PhD, Research Associate, International Health
NATHON WOLFE, ScD, Research Associate, International Health
EQUITY
Developing a Decision Support System to Highlight Perceptions Concerning Environmental Justice
ANDREW D. SAWYERS, PhD, Coordinator, Environmental Justice and Community Development, Maryland Department of the Environment
NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY Searching for Pfiesteria in Sedimentary Records
GRACE BRUSH, PhD, Professor, Geography and Environmental Engineering
LESLIE SWALLOW, BA CANDIDATE, Geography and Environmental Engineering Environmental and Public Health Impacts of Intensive Livestock Operation in the Wake of Hurricane Floyd
THADDEUS K. GRACZYK, PhD, Associate Research Professor, The Harry W. Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
STEVE WING, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina
Microbiological Assessment of the Baltimore Watershed
KELLOGG SCHWAB, PhD, Assisstant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
2000
DIET AND HEALTH
Factors Influencing the Availability of L-lysine in the Diet
JOHN J. SCOCCA, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, JHSPH The Impact of Dietary Factors on the Risk of Cancer and Heart Disease
THOMAS ERLINGER, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, JHMI Menu Development for Trial Comparison of Health Effects of a Lacto-ovo-vegetarian Diet to the Effects of the Dash Diet
LARRY APPEL, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and International Health, JHMI
FACTORS AFFECTING FOOD CONSUMPTION
Formative Research for a Store-based Environemtnal Intervention to Improve Diet in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
JOEL GITTELSOHN, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, JHSPH Food Security for Gender Equity in Health: Women Food Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa
ADNAN A. HYDER, MD, MPH, PhD, Assistant Research Professor, Division of Community Health and Health Systems; Associate Director, Doctor of Public Health Program (DrPH) in International Health, JHSPH The Historical and Cultural Significance of Soybean Byproducts for the World’s Food Future, East and West
SIDNEY W. MINTZ, PhD, William L. Straus, Jr. Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology, JHU
HUMAN ACTIVITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Public Health Safety of Consumption of Raw Oysters: The Impact of Environmental Contamination of the Chesapeake Bay from Industrial Animal Pollution
THADDEUS K. GRACZYK, PhD, Associate Research Professor, The Harry W. Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, JHPSH
Waste or Wealth? Recycling Human Excrement in Nineteenth Century America KAREN B. STUPSKI, PhD DOCTORAL CANDIDATE, Department of History of Science, Medicine and Technology, JHU, Faculty Advisor - Dr. Bill Leslie
Environmental and Public health Impacts of Intensive Livestock Operation in the Wake of Hurricane Floyd
THADDEUS K. GRACZYK, PhD, Associate Research Professor, The Harry W. Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, JHPSH
STEVE WING, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina
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