Robert Laumbach MD, MPH, CIH

Dr. Laumbach is an associate professor at Rutgers University School of Public Health. His current research interests are focused on two areas: 1) the interactive effects of exposure to multiple air pollutants and other environmental and psychosocial stressors, including climate change, and their cumulative impact on urban disparities in asthma, heart disease and cancer and 2) biological mechanisms underlying the effects of diesel exhaust and other air pollutants on pulmonary and cardiovascular disease. Approaches include community-based participatory research, controlled exposure studies, and semi-controlled “real-world” environmental exposure studies.