Howard Hu M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D.

Expertise: Metals toxicity, environmental epidemiology, occupational/environmental medicine

Academic Discipline: Environmental health sciences

Appointments: Chair and Professor of Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine

Phone: (734) 764-3188

E-mail: howardhu@umich.edu

· Can discuss health outcomes of exposure to lead and other toxic metals.
· Co-directs, with Dr. Robert Wright, the Michigan-Harvard Metals Epidemiology Research Group. It studies the contribution of metals exposure and genetics to the causation of chronic diseases in adults and impaired development in children.
· Can also discuss the potential toxicity of metal mixtures in mining waste.
· Research interests include chemical sensitivities and emerging children's environmental health issues such as neonatal exposure to phthalates (chemical compounds that are mainly used to increase the flexibility of plastics).

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