Environmental Health Insights

Deputy Editor in Chief

The deputy editor in chief provides support to the editor in chief on editorial decision-making, and is responsible for editorial-decisions when the editor in chief is unavailable or has declared a conflict of interest.

Stephanie L. Richards, PhD

Dr. Stephanie L. Richards is an Assistant Professor of Health Education and Promotion in the Environmental Health Sciences Program at East Carolina University.  She has a B.S in Biology and M.S. in Environmental Health from East Carolina University. She completed her PhD in Entomology with a minor in Geographic Information Science at North Carolina State University. Her post-doctoral work in Arbovirology was completed at the University of Florida, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory. She studies biological and environmental factors affecting vector ecology, underlying mechanistic causes of differential vector competence for arboviruses, role of mosquitoes in the spread of emerging pathogens, spatial ecology of vectors and vector-borne disease, vector-borne disease and public health, and insects of forensic importance. Learn more about Dr. Richards by visiting her institutional webpage.

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Supplement Guest Editors & Editorial Board Members

Supplement guest editors are responsible for the editorial content of published supplements, and as editorial board members are a source of peer reviewers and may occasionally provide assistance to the editor in chief.  Further information on the editorial board is available here, and information on the roles of guest editors in supplements is available here.   

Ambient Air Quality (A):

Eduardo Olaguer, PhD
Program Director, Air Quality Science, Houston Advanced Research Center, The Woodlands, TX, USA.

David Sterling, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of North Texas, Fort Worth, TX, USA.

Jonathan Ward, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, TX, USA.

Disease Vectors:

Stephanie L. Richards, PhD
Assistant Professor, Health Education and Promotion, Environmental Health Sciences Program, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.

Marilyn O. Ruiz, PhD
Director, Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.

Rebecca T. Trout Fryxell, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medical and Veterinary Entomology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.

Christopher J. Vitek, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX, USA.

Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene:

James Antonini, PhD
Research Toxicologist, CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV, USA; Adjunct Professor, Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA. 

Stacey Anderson, PhD
Research Biologist, CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV, USA; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.

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Editorial Board Members

The editorial board is the journal's primary source of peer reviewers and members occasionally provide assistance to the editor in chief.  The editor in chief welcomes applications from suitable candidates to join the editorial board.  Further information on the editorial board is available here.

Caleb Adegbenro, MD, MPH, PhD, FRSPH, Dip
Senior Lecturer, Health Promotion & Education, Health Communication & Media Technology, School Health Programme, Department of Community Health, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

Jo Anne G. Balanay, MOH, PhD, CIH
Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences Program, Department of Health Education and Promotion, College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greensville, NC, USA

Gerald Mark Barron, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Center for Public Health Practice, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Lalita Bharadwaj, PhD
Associate Professor, Toxicologist, School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Brenda L. Elledge, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Occupational & Environmental Health, Director, Southwest Preparedness & Emergency Response Learning Center, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Oana Violeta Enick, MET, RPBio
Senior Risk Assessor, Chair of the Professional Practice Committee for the British Columbia Association of Agrologists, Environmental Management Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Léo Heller, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Michael E. Herring, PhD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Retired), Atlanta, GA, USA

Charles Pittman Humphrey, PhD
Assistant Professor, East Carolina University, Greensville, NC, USA

Guy Hutton, PhD
Senior Economist, Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank, Geneva, Switzerland

Nadia Juzych, DSc MS
Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Public Health Institute, Okemos, Michigan, USA

Vikram Kapoor, PhD
ORISE Postdoctoral Research Fellow, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ORD, NRMRL, WSWRD, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Gregory Dale Kearney, DrPH, MPH
Assistant Professor, Brody School of Medicine, Department of Public Health, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA

Sharron LaFollette, PhD
Emeritus Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, Illinois, USA  

Y. Avasn Maruthi, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental studies, Institute of Science, GITAM University, Visakhaptanm, India

Ephraim Massawe, PhD
Professor of Industrial Hygiene, Occupational and Environmental Health, Southeastern Louisiana University, Louisiana, USA

Judith Mazique, MPH, JD
Program Director of Environmental Health, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, USA

Jane A. McElroy
Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA

Anthony J. McMichael, PhD
Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Michael N. Moore, BSc (Hons), PhD, FRMS
Professor, European Centre for Environment & Human Health (ECEHH), University of Exeter Medical School, Truro; Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK; PML Fellow, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK

Michele Morrone, PhD
Professor and Coordinator, Environmental Health Science, Department of Social and Public Health, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA

Ademola M. Omishakin, MPH PhD MBA
Professor and Coordinator, Environmental Health Program, Department of Natural Science and Environmental Health, Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, Mississippi, USA

Sanaa A. Owdat, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan

Ravi Patil, PhD
Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Dharwad, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

Sheila Davidson Pressley, DrPH, REHS/RS, DAAS, CPH
Associate Professor, Eastern Kentucky University, Environmental Health Science Department, Richmond, Kentucky, USA

Renata Raina-Fulton, PhD
Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

David B. Resnik, JD PhD
Bioethicist, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

May Linda Samuel, MPH DD PhD ThD
Associate Professor of Biology and Coordinator of Environmental Health Sciences Technology and Public Health, Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Allen University, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Cheng B. Saw, PhD
Past-President, North American Chinese Medical Physicists Association (NACMPA), Chair, Asian-Oceanic Affairs Subcommittee of AAPM, Chief Physicist, Northeast Radiation Oncology Centers (NROC), President, CBSaw Publishing, LLC, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Michael R. Schock
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ORD, NRMRL, WSWRD, TTEB, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Lawrence K Silbart, MPH, PhD
Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives, Provost's Office, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

Gary S. Silverman, DEnv
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

Dale Jay Stephenson, PhD, CIH
Professor and Chair, Community and Environmental Health, College of Health Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA

Thomas Tenkate, PhD, FEHA, FRSPH
Director, School of Occupational and Public Health, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Aurelio Tobías, PhD, CStat
Senior Researcher, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

S. Ezhil Vendan PhD  
Scientist Fellow - QHS, Food Protectants & Infestation Control, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore, India

Chris Vitek, PhD
Associate Professor, Biology Department, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, TX, USA

Wei-Hsung Wang, PhD, CHP, CSP, CLSO
Professor, Center for Energy Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Li-Hao Young, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Safety and Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Paul A Zandbergen, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

F. Benjamin Zhan, PhD
Professor, Department of Geography, Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA