Environment

Part  I  Background of the Field
  Chapter  1  Introduction: The Environment at Risk
  Chapter  2  Environmental Epidemiology
  Chapter  3  Environmental Toxicology
  Chapter  4  Environmental Policy and Regulation
Part  II  Agents of Environmental Disease
  Chapter  5  Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases
  Chapter  6  Toxic Metals and Elements
  Chapter  7  Pesticides and Other Organic Chemicals
  Chapter  8  Ionizing and Nonionizing Radiation
Part  III  Applications of Environmental Health
  Chapter  9  Water Quality
  Chapter  10  Air Quality
  Chapter  11  Food Safety
  Chapter  12  Solid and Liquid Wastes
  Chapter  13  Occupational Health
  Chapter  14  Injuries with a Focus on Unintentional Injuries and Deaths

Robert H. Friis, PhD-Professor, Chair, Department of Health Science - California State University, Long Beach

Robert H. Friis, PhD, earned his doctorate from Columbia University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in social epidemiology at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley.

 

He has had more than three decades of teaching and research experience in epidemiology. Formerly, he was Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University School of Public Health, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Assistant Professor of Health Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

 

Subsequently, he was Director of the Field Epidemiology Unit at the Orange County (California) Public Health Department. Later he became a faculty member in the Department of Medicine, Department of Neurology, and the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. Currently, he is Professor and Chair of the Health Science Department at California State University, Long Beach, where he has taught introductory epidemiology and biostatistics.

 

He has been involved in numerous epidemiologic research projects and has published more than 50 professional and scientific articles. He is a member of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and the epidemiology section of the American Public Health Association. He is also Clinical Professor of Community and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, Irvine.