Laurel Berman, PhD '05, MS '02
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Pronouns: She/her/hers
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Office Hours
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| Monday | 04:50pm – 05:50pm | PUBH 411 - after class in Burnham Hall |
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| Wednesday | 05:45pm – 06:45pm | PUBH 360 - after class on Zoom |
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Selected Grants
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Culture of Health Leaders Program, Team Lead
Selected Publications
Berman, L., & Whitehead, S. (Eds.) (2019). Land Reuse and Redevelopment: Creating Healthy Communities. Denver, CO: National Environmental Health Association.
Berman, L., Whitehead, S., & DeFlorio-Barker, S. (2019). Integrating Public Health in Land Reuse and Redevelopment: Part 2: Assessing Local Health Agency Capacity to Integrate Environmental Health and Land Reuse Work. Journal of Environmental Health, 81(9), 36-39.
Berman, L., Ballogg, M., & Erdal, S. (2019). Integrating Public Health in Land Reuse and Redevelopment: Part 1: A 5-step Land Reuse and Redevelopment Model: Resources to Spur Local Initiatives, Journal of Environmental Health, 85(2), 36-38.
Perlman, G., Berman, L., et al. (2018) ATSDR Land Reuse Screening Tool Cohorts: Creating Land Reuse Site Inventories, Journal of Environmental Health, 81(2), 40-43.
Berman, L., & Forrester, T. (2012) An Indicator Framework to Measure Effects of Brownfields Redevelopment on Public Health, Journal of Environmental Health, 76 (1), 50-55.
Berman, L., Desousa, C., Linder, T., & Misky, D. (2012). From Blighted Brownfields to Healthy and Sustainable Communities: Tracking Performance and Measuring Outcomes in Hula, R., Reese, L., & Jackson-Elmore, C. (Eds.), Reclaiming Brownfields: A Comparitive Analysis of Adaptive Reuse of Contaminated Properties (pp. 311-339). Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Perlman, G., Berman, L. & Bing, K. (2010). Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Brownfields/Land Reuse Site Tool. Journal of Environmental Health, 75(5), 30-34.
Berman, L., Orr, D., and Forrester, T. (2009). Improving Community Health: Brownfields and Health Monitoring. Environmental Practice 11(3), 190-195.
Boelter, F.W., Simmons, C., Berman, L., & Scheff, P. (2009). Exposure Assessment and Application of a Two-Zone Model for Shielded Metal Arc Welding, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene.
Erdal S.; Berman L.; & Hryhorczuk, D. (2008). Multi-media Emissions Inventory of PCBs for the U.S. Great Lakes States. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 58(8).
Notable Honors
2016-2019, Culture of Health Leaders Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
2018, Excellence in Program Delivery - Domestic, National Center for Environmental Health /Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
2016, ClearMark Award, Center for Plain Language
2013, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Achievement, University of Illinois School of Public Health
2023, Silver Circle Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Illinois Chicago
Education
Ph.D., Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois School of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, Illinois, with specialty in industrial hygiene, human exposure and risk assessment, and toxicology. September 2005.
M.S., Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois School of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, Illinois, with a special focus on the AIHA-accredited Industrial Hygiene Program. June 2002.
B.Sc. Civil Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
Professional Memberships
Brownfields & Reuse Opportunity Working Group - Founder
Federal Partners Brownfields Working Group
Federal Interagency Environmental Justice Working Group
NCEH-ATSDR Built Environment Workgroup
US-Central-Eastern Europe Brownfields and Public Health Working Group - Founder
Chicago Section Society for Risk Analysis (Officer)