Our Faculty

Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Children collecting water from a well.

Faculty focus on understanding the determinants and prevention of disease, on the role of environmental factors in health and disease and on the administration of health programs to implement that understanding.

  • Matthew R. Bonner.
    Matthew R. Bonner, PhD, MPH

    277 Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5385

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    mrbonner@buffalo.edu

    Associate Professor
    Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
    School of Public Health and Health Professions

    Research Topics: Environmental and occupational epidemiology; cancer epidemiology; pesticides; air pollution; radon; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; phthalates.

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    277 Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5385

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    mrbonner@buffalo.edu

  • Jo L. Freudenheim.
    Jo L. Freudenheim, PhD

    268K Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5375

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    jfreuden@buffalo.edu

    Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
    School of Public Health and Health Professions
    Deputy Director
    Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender
    SUNY Distinguished Professor
    Epidemiology and Environmental Health
    School of Public Health and Health Professions

    Research Topics/Projects: Cancer epidemiology, using epidemiologic tools to understand carcinogenesis at the population, individual, tissue and molecular levels to better prevent and control the disease risk and progression. Much of my work includes a focus on nutrition and alcohol. . Recent projects include a study of the breast microbiome and a study of DNA methylation in lung tissues from smokers, non-smokers and electronic cigarette users.

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    268K Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5375

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    jfreuden@buffalo.edu

  • Symposium tackles challenges, impact of COVID-19
    6/8/22

    UB’s Global Health Day Symposium brought together experts from WHO, NIH and UB to discuss the next stages of response to the pandemic.

  • Kasia Kordas.
    Katarzyna Kordas, PhD

    234 Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5340

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    kkordas@buffalo.edu

    Director, MPH Concentration in Epidemiology
    Associate Professor
    Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
    School of Public Health and Health Professions
    Co-Director
    Community for Global Health Equity
    School of Public Health and Health Professions

    Research Topics: Environmental epidemiology; global health; health effects of mixtures; toxic metals and child development; nutrient-metal interactions; dietary predictors of toxicant exposure.

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    234 Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5340

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    kkordas@buffalo.edu

  • Lina Mu.
    Lina Mu, PhD, MD

    273A Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5381

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    linamu@buffalo.edu

    Director, Office of Global Health Initiatives
    Associate Professor
    Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
    School of Public Health and Health Professions

    Research Topics: Environmental epidemiology; air pollution; water pollution; cancer molecular epidemiology (primarily lung cancer, breast cancer and Upper-GI cancers); gene-environment interaction; cancer survival.

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    273A Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5381

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    linamu@buffalo.edu

  • Katia Noyes.
    Ekaterina (Katia) Noyes, PhD, MPH

    270C Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5386

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    enoyes@buffalo.edu

    Associate Dean for Translational and Team Sciences
    Director, Division of Health Services Policy and Practice
    Professor
    Professor and Director, Department of Surgery
    Surgical Outcomes And Research (SOAR) Center
    Adjunct Professor, Roswell
    Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
    School of Public Health and Health Professions

    Research Topics: Health outcomes and quality of care assessment; economic evaluation of healthcare programs; comparative effectiveness research; multidisciplinary team science and stakeholder engagement; implementation science, and regional care delivery in surgical oncology.

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    270C Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5386

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    enoyes@buffalo.edu

  • Dr. Jim Olson.
    James R. Olson, PhD

    273 Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-2319

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    jolson@buffalo.edu

    Director, Division of Environmental Health Sciences
    UB Distinguished Professor
    Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
    School of Public Health and Health Professions
    UB Distinguished Professor
    Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
    Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

    Research Topics: Assessing the health risks and biomarkers of exposure; effect and susceptibility to organophosphate (OP) pesticides and persistent halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons.

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    273 Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-2319

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    jolson@buffalo.edu

  • Pavani Kalluri Ram.
    Pavani Kalluri Ram, MD

    pkram@buffalo.edu

    Research Professor
    Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
    School of Public Health and Health Professions

    Research Topics: Child survival; handwashing; global health; diarrheal diseases; acute respiratory infections; infectious disease epidemiology.

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    pkram@buffalo.edu

  • Xuefeng Ren.
    Xuefeng Ren, PhD, MD

    276 Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5384

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    xuefengr@buffalo.edu

    Associate Professor
    Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
    School of Public Health and Health Professions

    Research Topics: Environmental health and toxicology; environmental epigenetics; mechanism(s) of metal carcinogenesis; development of alternative and novel prevention and treatment approaches for human diseases related to environmental exposures; and FRY gene and cancer progression.

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    276 Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5384

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    xuefengr@buffalo.edu

  • Meng Wang.
    Meng Wang, PhD

    234A Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5341

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    mwang54@buffalo.edu

    Assistant Professor
    Director, MPH Concentration in Environmental Health
    Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
    School of Public Health and Health Professions

    Research Topics: Environmental exposure monitoring, air pollution modeling, health impacts of environmental exposures.

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    234A Farber Hall

    Phone: (716) 829-5341

    Fax: (716) 829-2979

    mwang54@buffalo.edu

Kim Griswold.

Kim Griswold

Research Associate Professor

Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Email: griswol@buffalo.edu