Media contact: Hannah Echols, echolsh@uab.edu
Jeff Wickliffe, Ph.D.
School of Public Health
Chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Areas of expertise:
- Environmental health
- Air and water pollution
- Food safety
- Health risk assessment
- Exposure science
- Maternal and child health
- Environmental factors affecting cancer, neurological and neurodevelopmental diseases
Wickliffe is an environmental health scientist who specializes in the harmful effects of environmental chemicals and elements on human health. His research focuses on the role that these environmental factors play in the development of cancers, neurological disease and neurodevelopmental outcomes, liver and kidney disease. He can also speak to the means by which humans are exposed to these environmental agents of disease and ways in which such exposures can or should be mitigate
Media apperances:
- Climate Change is the biggest public health challenge of our lives, according to UAB Dean—here’s why, Bham Now
- Residents worry about unknown health impacts of toxic landfill fumes, WBHM
- Parts of Central Alabama faced with air quality concerns, WVTM