About the Department
Environmental Health Sciences comprises the elements of public health that are concerned with assessing, understanding, and controlling the impacts of the environment on individual and population health. At the UAMS Department of Environmental Health Sciences, we achieve this through applying the principles and practices of exposure and risk assessment, community outreach and education, toxicology, regulatory sciences, genetics, and pharmacogenomics.
The department promotes healthy living and working environments through research, teaching, and service. We prepare students for an exciting and rewarding career with our comprehensive and rigorous program. Students are trained to anticipate, recognize, evaluate and control environmental factors that can influence the health of individuals and populations. In addition, the Regulatory Science Graduate Certificate fills an urgent need in educating students in understanding the impact and implementation of regulatory decisions and the science that supports those decisions.
Faculty and Staff of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Our diverse faculty is actively involved in research, teaching, and practice in a broad range of public health issues, from healthy homes to toxic waste cleanup to cancer research. Our department has particular strengths in the areas of:
- Environmental exposures and risk assessment
- Regulatory sciences
- Toxicology
- Gene-environment interactions
- Climate and public health
- Geographic information systems
More Helpful Information
Read the Research and Healthy Habits blogs.
Contact Us
The EHS department offices are located on the 1st floor of the Rahn College of Public Health building on the UAMS campus. Call today to schedule an appointment and learn how the UAMS Department of Environmental Health Sciences can help you reach your educational and research goals.
To learn more about our Masters or Certificate program in Environmental Health Sciences, call En Huang, Ph.D., at 501-526-6627 or email ehuang@uams.edu.
To learn more about our Regulatory Sciences program, call Christopher Fettes at 501-526-4260 or email at cafettes@uams.edu.
Environmental Health Research Blog
Featured Publication
Professor Igor Koturbash, MD, PhD, and his collaborators recently published an article titled “Long-term effects of combined exposures to simulated microgravity and galactic cosmic radiation on the mouse lung: sex-specific epigenetic reprogramming” in Radiation and Environmental Biophysics. This study examines how space-like conditions—including simulated microgravity and galactic cosmic radiation (GCR)—affect the lungs of male and […]
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Featured Funding
One year ago today, Dr. Mitch McGill was awarded an R01 grant for his project titled The role of phosphatidic acid in liver regeneration after acetaminophen overdose. This five year, $1.6 million dollar grant will fund Dr. McGill’s ongoing and highly regarded work on liver injury and recovery.
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Featured Funding
Dr. En Huang’s research on drug resistant pathogens has culminated in a new grant awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Huang’s R01 five year grant is titled Mechanisms of cefiderocol nonsusceptibility and resistance evolution in carbapenem resistant pathogens and totals $3,643,475 in funding.
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Featured Publication
Dr. Gunnar Boysen’s latest article “Investigating the origins of the mutational signatures in cancer” appears in Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 53, Issue 1, published this month. The abstract is below: Most of the risk factors associated with chronic and complex diseases, such as cancer, stem from exogenous and endogenous exposures experienced throughout an individual’s life, […]
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