Exposure and Risk Assessment Group

The Exposure and Risk Analysis Group conducts research on current and emerging technologies for anticipating and monitoring exposures of human and ecological receptors to harmful agents. Our work focuses on the development and use of multimedia exposure measurements and models in health-risk assessments, chemical transport and transformation in the environment, and the health and environmental impacts of energy, industrial, and agricultural systems. Major areas of research in this group include the following:

• Methods for assessing cumulative exposures to persistent, multimedia pollutants
• Indoor/outdoor models for total human exposure to particulate matter and volatile organic chemicals
• Methods for characterizing and evaluating uncertainty and variability in source-to-dose models
• Finding ways to calibrate and validate human exposure and source-to-dose models.
• Mechanisms of biological damage at the cellular, molecular, organ and whole organism level.