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Susceptibility & Population Health Branch (SPHB)

Claudia Thompson
Claudia L. Thompson, Ph.D. (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/dert/sphb/staff/thompson/index.cfm)
Branch Chief
Tel (919) 541-4638
Fax (919) 541-4937
thomps14@niehs.nih.gov

About SPHB

The Susceptibility and Population Health Branch (SPHB) supports, coordinates, and advances research and community-engagement projects related to environmental exposures and their impact on individual and population health, including:

  • Individual and population susceptibility, as broadly determined by genetic, behavioral, and sociocultural factors;
  • Gene-environment interactions, from effects of allelic variants and toxicant-induced mutations to protein structure-function relationships;
  • Molecular and cellular processes that underlie environmental health including genome integrity, oxidative stress, signal transduction, and carcinogenesis
  • Environmental and molecular epidemiology;
  • Intervention and prevention, from molecular to community-based approaches;
  • Environmental public health research including health disparities and environmental justice; and,
  • Biomarker development and application for exposure, susceptibility and effect in population-based studies.

 

Landmark programs managed within SPHB include:

  • Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program
  • Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Centers
  • Deepwater Horizon Disaster Academic-Community Research Consortium
  • Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers
  • Human Health Impacts of Climate Change
  • Partnerships for Environmental Public Health
  • Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Research Programs

Staff

Caroline Dilworth, Ph.D.
Caroline Dilworth, Ph.D. (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/dert/sphb/staff/dilworth/index.cfm)
Health Scientist Administrator

Tel (919) 541-7727
Fax (919) 316-4606
dilworthch@niehs.nih.gov
Symma Finn, Ph.D.
Symma Finn, Ph.D. (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/dert/sphb/staff/finn/index.cfm)
Health Science Administrator

Tel (919) 541-4258
finns@niehs.nih.gov
Kimberly Ann Gray
Kimberly Ann Gray, Ph.D. (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/dert/sphb/staff/gray/index.cfm)
Health Scientist Administrator

Tel (919) 541-0293
Fax (919) 316-4606
gray6@niehs.nih.gov
Kimberly A. McAllister, Ph.D.
Kimberly A. McAllister, Ph.D. (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/dert/sphb/staff/mcallister/index.cfm)
Health Science Administrator

Tel (919) 541-4528
Fax (919) 316-4606
mcallis2@niehs.nih.gov
Leslie J. Reinlib, Ph.D.
Leslie J. Reinlib, Ph.D. (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/dert/sphb/staff/reinlib/index.cfm)
Health Scientist Administrator

Tel (919) 541-4998
Fax (919) 316-4606
reinlib@niehs.nih.gov
Daniel Shaughnessy, Ph.D.
Daniel Shaughnessy, Ph.D. (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/dert/sphb/staff/shaughnessy/index.cfm)
Health Scientist Administrator

Tel (919) 541-2506
Fax (919) 316-4606
shaughn1@niehs.nih.gov

Jennifer Collins
Jennifer Collins (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/dert/sphb/staff/collins/index.cfm)
Program Analyst

Tel (919) 541-0117
collins6@niehs.nih.gov
Liam R. O'Fallon
Liam R. O'Fallon, M.A. (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/dert/sphb/staff/ofallon/index.cfm)
Program Analyst

Tel (919) 541-7733
Fax (919) 316-4606
ofallon@niehs.nih.gov
Kate Ryan
Kate Ryan
Support Staff

Tel (919) 541-3254
Fax (919) 541-0462
ryan3@niehs.nih.gov


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