CHICAGO, January 5, 2011—NORC at the University of Chicago announced the appointment of Helen H. Suh, Sc.D. as the new Program Area Director for Environmental Health in the Public Health Research Department.
“Helen Suh is an outstanding researcher, colleague, and creative thinker and I am thrilled she will be working with us as we build our environmental health portfolio,” said Michael Davern, Senior Vice President and Director of Public Health Research at NORC.
Suh is an expert in air pollution health effects. Until recently, she was on the faculty in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Suh has served as the principal investigator or co-investigator of numerous exposure and health studies, with her research focusing on three general research areas within air pollution epidemiology: (1) the impact of individual behaviors on air pollutant exposures and human health, (2) methods to assess multi-pollutant impacts on human health, and (3) development of GIS-based spatio-temporal modeling tools for epidemiological research. Suh has performed advisory work in environmental health for numerous international, national, and local organizations. She is a member of the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, the EPA Committee on the Report on the Environment, the National Academy of Sciences Committee to Review the Draft IRIS Assessment on Formaldehyde, and a scientific advisor to the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Dr. Suh is an author on over 90 peer-reviewed publications.
Helen Suh received an S.B. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.S. and Sc.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from the Harvard School of Public Health.