People
The Executive Committee and Core leaders who guide the Center's science, community partnerships, and programs.
Center Director
Dr. Wills-Karp chairs the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, which spans the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Whiting School of Engineering, and champions cross-disciplinary research between engineering and public health.
Deputy Director
Dr. Koehler works to improve exposure assessment methods that inform occupational and public health policy, using real-time instruments, GPS, and spatial statistics to map where people encounter hazards.
IHSFC Co-Lead
Dr. Putcha is a Johns Hopkins pulmonary and critical care physician and an expert in obstructive lung diseases such as COPD and asthma. She also cares for critically ill patients in the Medical ICU and teaches medical students and residents.
IHSFC Co-Lead
Dr. Alderete is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Engineering who studies how environmental exposures affect health across the life course, integrating clinical, epidemiological, and multiomics research with a focus on obesity, type 2 diabetes, and early-life development.
CEC Co-Lead
Dr. Heaney is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health whose research spans environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, water and health, and community-engaged research.
CEC Co-Lead
Dr. Wilson is a Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Health and directs its Health, Environmental, and Economic Justice Lab. His research spans health disparities, exposure science, and community-based research.
CEC Co-Lead
Shashawnda Campbell is a lifelong Baltimore resident and community leader. As a high school student she co-founded Free Your Voice, which stopped the largest incinerator proposal in U.S. history, and she has since helped build the South Baltimore Community Land Trust.
ECMC Lead
Dr. Koehler works to improve exposure assessment methods that inform occupational and public health policy, using real-time instruments, GPS, and spatial statistics to map where people encounter hazards.
Pilot Project Program Lead
Dr. Hartung leads efforts to modernize toxicology, moving away from decades-old animal tests toward organoid cultures, microphysiological systems, and artificial intelligence.
Community Co-Lead
Greg Sawtell is Zero Waste Just Transition Director at the South Baltimore Community Land Trust. Since 2012 he has organized in South Baltimore, beginning with the successful effort to stop the nation's largest proposed trash incinerator.
Community Co-Lead
Walkiria Pool brings more than 15 years of experience in community development and affordable housing. She developed the “Más a ti” program for the National Council of La Raza and has served on several community boards and advisory committees.
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