Council Members | NIEHS

National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council

Chairman

Kyle M. Walsh, Ph.D.
Director, NIEHS & NTP
Tel 984-287-3812
NIEHSDirector@nih.gov

Executive Secretary

David M. Balshaw, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Extramural Research and Training
Tel 984-287-3234
balshaw@niehs.nih.gov

Members

Stephania A. Cormier, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President, Office of Research & Economic Development;
Director, Louisiana State University Superfund Research Program; Wiener Endowed Professor
Tel 225-578-2806
stephaniacormier@lsu.edu

Olivier Deschenes, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Tel 805-893-5617
olivier@econ.ucsb.edu

J. Timothy Greenamyre, M.D., Ph.D.
Love Family Professor; Vice-Chair of Neurology;
Director, Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (PIND)
Tel 412-648-9793
jgreena@pitt.edu

Patricia Nez Henderson, M.P.H., M.D.
Vice President, Black Hills Center for American Indian Health
pnhenderson@bhcaih.org

Darryl Hood, Ph.D.
Professor
Tel 614-247-4941
hood.188@osu.edu

Keri Hornbuckle, Ph.D.
University of Iowa Distinguished Chair;
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering;
Director, Iowa Superfund Research Program
Tel 319-348-0789
keri-hornbuckle@uiowa.edu

Cathrine Hoyo, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor;
Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Chair
Tel 919-515-0540
choyo@ncsu.edu

Gökhan M. Mutlu, M.D.
Professor and Chief, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, Department of Medicine
Tel 773-702-1002
gmutlu@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

Maria Savasta-Kennedy
Clinical Professor of Law; Director of the Externship Program
Tel 919-843-9506
mskennedy@email.unc.edu

Ex-Officio Members

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., J.D.
Secretary; US Department of Health and Human Services

Jayanta Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, National Institutes of Health

Yulia Iossifova Carroll, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Director for Science, Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice
Tel 770-488-3912
eya3@cdc.gov

Maureen R. Gwinn, Ph.D.
Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency
Tel 202-564-6620