Overall Structure and Composition of the Administrative Core and the SWEHSC
The University of Arizona is a state-supported, land grant university that operates under the auspices of the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR). The UA President, Dr. Robert Robbins, reports directly to the Board. The Dean of the College of Pharmacy (Rick Schnellmann) is also a SWEHSC member and NIH funded researcher who has direct oversight of the Center for Toxicology. The Center for Toxicology, commissioned by the ABOR, houses the NIEHS programmatic initiatives including the SWEHSC and the Super Fund Research Program, the NIEHS T32 Training Program in Environmental Toxicology of Human Disease, and the R25 EHS-TRUE Undergraduate Research Training Program, which greatly enhance the EHS research environment at UA. The SWEHSC is directed by Dr. Nathan Cherrington and remains an integral part of the University of Arizona Health Sciences.
ADMINISTRATIVE CORE
- Director, Nathan Cherrington, PhD
- Deputy Director, Dean Billheimer, PhD
- Grants and Contracts Administrator, Susanna Herndon
RESEARCH THEMES
Environmental Exposures to People in the Southwest (RFG1)
- Co-Leaders: Jeff Burgess | Melissa Furlong
Environmental Lung Disease (RFG2)
- Co-Leaders: Xinxin Ding | Julie Ledford
Adaptive Response to Environmental Stress (RFG3)
- Co-Leaders: Zelieann Craig | Georg Wondrak
FACILITY CORES
Cellular Imaging Facility Core (CIFC)
- Director, Douglas Cromey, MS
Translational Research Support Core (TRSC)
- DATA SCIENCE RESOURCE (DSR)
- TRSC and DSR Director: Dean Billheimer, Ph.D.
- IMPLEMENTATION RESOURCE FOR TRANSLATIONAL AND HUMAN EXPOSURE RESEARCH (IRTH)
- Co-Directors: Paloma Beamer, PhD, Zelieann Craig, PhD
- INHALATION EXPOSURE RESOURCE (IER)
- Director: Xinxin Ding, PhD
Omics Facility Core (OFC)
- Co-Director/Manager, George Watts, PhD
- Co-Director, James Galligan, PhD
- Co-Director, Jon Chorover, PhD
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE
- Co-Director, Paloma Beamer, PhD
- Co-Director, Sofia Forier-Montes
Multi-Directional Collaborations
- Tribal Voices: Environmental Education
- Community Teach-in Events
- Tribal Forums
- Indigenous Stewards Magazine
- Environmental Health Collective
Translate EH Research Into Action
- What's Brewing in Your Lab
- Article Summaries and Infographics
- Science Cafés
- Earth Days
Environmental Health Literacy
- Risk Communication Model
- PFAS and Ethylene Oxide Briefs
- Environmental Scholars
- Environmental Exposure Report Back
Pathways to EH Careers
- Toxic Detectives
- Environmental Scholars
- Our Land, Our Education, Our Health
- Steps 2 STEM
- A Student's Journey