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Mark Robson, BS, MS, PhD, MPH, ATS



Dr. Mark Gregory Robson is the Dean of Agricultural and Urban Programs and Professor of Entomology at Rutgers University-School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health. Prior to that he was Chairman of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at UMDNJ-SPH. Dr. Robson served for eight years as the Executive Director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute. Dr. Robson graduated with a B.S. with High Honors (1977) from Rutgers University - Cook College in Agricultural Science and an M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1988) from Rutgers University - Graduate School New Brunswick in Plant Science. He has an M.P.H. (1995) from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Public Health in Environmental and Occupational Health. Dr. Robson's research focus is on exposures to pesticides, including children, residential, and agricultural exposures. Dr. Robson is currently the PI on an NIH-funded Fogarty ITREOH Center in Bangkok Thailand Grant Number: 1 D43 TW007849 and also the PI on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant Tsunami Long Term Relief Efforts Grant Number: 61416. He currently serves or has served on many international, national and state committees on environmental health, including: NIH Blue Ribbon Panel-responding to public commentary and concerns regarding the construction and operation of a high containment research facility (the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory) at Boston University Medical Center, 2008 to 2009; USEPA FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel - Review of Worker Exposure Assessment Methods; NJDHSS Occupational Health Surveillance Advisory Board; NJDHSS-CDC Environmental Public Health Data Tracking External Advisory Committee; In 2003 he was appointed by the Governor as Chair of the New Jersey Drinking Water Quality Institute. Dr. Robson is a contributing editor for Public Health Reports, and he is on the editorial boards for the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, the Journal of Environmental Health, and New Solutions, a Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy. Dr. Robson and Dr. William Toscano are the editors of the textbook Environmental Health Risk Assessment for Public Health (Jossey Bass 2007). Dr. Robson is a member of the Rutgers Graduate Programs in Toxicology, Environmental Science and Entomology and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMDNJ. He a Visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok at the National Center of Excellence. Dr. Robson was named a Fulbright Senior Specialist for Thailand in 2005. Dr. Robson has won numerous awards including UMDNJ Master Educator 2001, School of Public Health Student Association Excellence in Teaching Award 2001 and 2006, and Foundation of UMDNJ Excellence Award for Teaching 2002. He was elected a Fellow in the Academy of Toxicological Sciences in 2002; he was the recipient of the American Water Works Association - Research and Education Award in 2005 and the George Hammell Cook Distinguished Alumni Award, Rutgers University in 2005. He was also named to the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers 2007.

     
Dean of Agricultural and Urban Programs
Professor

Exposure Science Division
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/robson.htm
Email:robson@aesop.rutgers.edu
Room:104 Martin Hall
Phone:732-932-1000 x 506
Fax:732-932-8955
Research Interests:
Occupational and non occupational exposures to pesticides and pharmaceuticals including maternal and childhood exposures and agricultural workers. International environmental health including exposures to pesticides and metals (pb and As) Ecological effects of pesticides and other toxicants.
Publications:

Siriwong, W., Thirakhupt, K., Sitticharoenchai, D., Rohitrattana J., Thongkongowm, P., M. Borjan, and Robson, M. A preliminary health risk assessment of organochlorine pesticide residues associated with aquatic organisms from the Rangsit Agricultural Area, Central Thailand. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 14 (5): 1086 ? 1097. 2008.

Siriwong, W., Sitticharoenchai, D., Rohitrattana J., Thongkongowm, P., Thirakhupt, K. and Robson, M. Biomagnification of organochlorine pesticides in aquatic food web of Rangsit Agricultural Area, Thailand. Ecological Indicators, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2008.10.004. 2008.

Petchuay, C., Thoumsang, S., Visuthismajarn, P., Vitayavirasak, B., Buckley, B., Hore, P., and Robson, M. Analytical method developed for measurement of dialkylphosphate metabolites in urine collected from children non-occupationally exposed to organophosphate pesticides in an agricultural community in Thailand. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, DOI 10.1007/s00128-008-9515-5. 2008.

Siriwong, W., Sitticharoenchai, D., Borjan, M., Thirakhupt, K. and Robson, M. Organochlorine pesticide residues in plankton, Rangsit Agricultural Area, Central Thailand. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, DOI 10.1007/s00128-008-9532-4. 2008.

Garetano, G., Stern, A., Robson, M., and Gochfeld, M. Mercury vapor in residential building common areas in communities that use mercury for cultural purposes versus a reference community. Science of the Total Environment, 397(1-3):131-139. 2008.

Lumia, M., Gentile, P., Efthimion, and Robson, M. The use of removable thin film coating techniques as an alternative to traditional decontamination methods to mitigate and abate hazardous particulates. Remediation Journal, 18(2):115-130. 2008.

Osinubi, O., Gandhi, S., Ohman-Strickland, P., Boglarsky, C., Fiedler, N., Kipen, H., and Robson, M. Organizational factors and office workers? health after the World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks: Long term physical symptoms, psychological distress and work productivity. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 50:112-125. 2008.

Borjan, M., Constantino, P., and Robson, M. New Jersey migrant and seasonal farmworkers: enumeration and access to healthcare study. New Solutions, 10:77-86. 2008.

Bennett, B., Parker, D., and Robson, M. Leprosy-Steps along the journey of eradication. Public Health Reports, (123): 198-205. 2008.

Thanapop, C., Geater, A., Robson, M., Paktongsuk, P., Viroonudomphol, D. Exposure to lead of boatyard workers in Southern Thailand. Journal of Occupational Health. 49:345-352. 2007.

Awards and Honors:
ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers 2007

2005 George Hammell Cook Distinguished Alumni Award

2003 Fellow, Academy of Toxicological Sciences

2002 Foundation of UMDNJ Excellence in Teaching Award

2002 New Jersey Environmental Health Association NEHA Certificate Foundation of UMDNJ Teaching Excellence Award

2002 Delta Omega: Honorary Public Health Fraternity

2001 UMDNJ-Master Educator

2001 UMDNJ-School of Public Health-Excellence in Teaching Award
 
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