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60 Haven Avenue, Room B116
New York, NY 10032
USA
Phone:212-305-3465
Email:[email protected]
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Education and Training
| PhD
| 2003
| Umeċ University, Sweden
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| MPH
| 2002
| Umeċ University, Sweden
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
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| Dr. Perzanowskis research is focused on understanding exposures which lead to allergic sensitization and asthma. While many environmental exposures are hypothesized to have contributed to the global epidemic of asthma in the latter half of the 20th century, a unifying theory has not been proven. Approaching the study of environmentally associated diseases from a global perspective takes advantage of natural and manmade variations in exposures between communities. This is especially relevant to the asthma epidemic which has occurred in many countries with differing levels of immunologically relevant exposures.
Dr. Perzanowski began his research career at a preeminent allergen exposure laboratory and participated in studies conducted in communities as different as inner-city Atlanta and rural Kenya. He continued with his doctoral research in northern Sweden at the Arctic Circle where asthma is common but dust mites and cockroaches, exposure to which is important to asthma elsewhere, are not found.
As a co-investigator on several established prospective cohort studies, his current research at MSPH is exploring paradigms of exposures related to asthma in an area of the world with one of the highest prevalence of asthma, inner-city NYC. Specifically, his research examines the links between pediatric asthma and cat and dog ownership, exposure to bacterial endotoxin (hygiene hypothesis), and being overweight with the aim of furthering the understanding of asthma in this community and globally.
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