Objective
The center for MCHEER (Memphis Climate Health Environment Equity Research) serves as an infrastructure to expand collaboration, build capacity, and engage communities to conduct transdisciplinary and translational research addressing complex health impacts from climate change and environmental pollution on vulnerable populations in the Greater Memphis Area and beyond.
Research Projects
Faculty in the MCHEER Program has secured funding from federal, state, and local government agencies and foundations. The following are selected major research programs and projects funded by extramural grants on which MCHEER faculty served as principal investigators (PIs). Click on the buttons below to see the project details.
View current projects for ongoing research on air pollution and health.
View current projects for ongoing research on climate change and health.
View current projects for ongoing research on environmental justice.
View current projects for ongoing research on global health.
View current projects for ongoing research on healtu buildings.
Members
Chunrong Jia, PhD, MS
Professor of Environmental Health Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental
Health
Research Interests: Air pollution, climate change, indoor air quality, exposure and risk assessment, and
environmental justice.
Ashish Joshi, PhD, MBBS, MPH
Dean and Distinguished University Professor
Research Interests: Population health informatics, mobile health, public health dashboards, public health
innovation and entrepreneurship, public health workforce, global health and human-centered
design.
Abu Mohammed Naser Titu, PhD, MBBS
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics,
and Environmental Health
Research Interests: Climate change and health, environmental epidemiology, cardiovascular epidemiology,
socioecological determinants of cardiometabolic health outcomes, evaluation of public
health interventions, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) research, and clinical
epidemiology.
Arleen Hill, PhD
Chair and Professor of Earth Sciences Department of Earth Sciences
Research Interests: Managing/reducing the impacts of disruptions to our society and environment associated
with hazards and vulnerability.
Xichen Mou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and
Environmental Health
Research Interests: Group testing, pooled biomarker data analysis, nonparametric regression, repeated
measures.
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