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Frank A. von Hippel is a professor of environmental health sciences in the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and the lead of the “One Health” research initiative at the University of Arizona. Frank was born and raised in Alaska, received an A.B. in biology at Dartmouth College in 1989, and a Ph.D. in integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1996. He taught for Columbia University (1996-1999), the University of Alaska Anchorage (2000-2016), and Northern Arizona University (2016-2021) before moving to the University of Arizona in 2021. Frank has taught field courses in over twenty countries, and conducted research in the Americas, Africa and Australia. He conducts research at the nexus of ecotoxicology, mechanisms of toxicity, and health disparities, with a focus on Indigenous populations. Frank uses locally occurring wildlife and laboratory animals as models for human exposure and disease, and he employs a Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach. Frank’s research has been widely covered in the press, including The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Economist, the BBC, and many other media outlets. Frank is the author of The Chemical Age (University of Chicago Press, 2020; https://frankvonhippel.github.io/pubs.html) and he is the creator and host of the Science History Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/science-history-podcast/id1325288920). From 2015-2018, he served as Associate Editor of the Elsevier journal Environmental Pollution (Impact Factor: 6.792), where he now serves on the editorial board. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Science Communication Network (http://sciencecommunicationnetwork.org/), which brings media attention to environmental health research. Frank has mentored minority students in research throughout his career, with a focus on Native American and Latino students, and received numerous awards for this mentorship, including the “baleen award” of the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program and the University of Alaska Faculty Exemplar Award for long-term mentoring of undergraduate research.

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  • TCE
    Toxicology and Chemical Exposure

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    Collaborative Research: Sustainable management of human organic pollutant exposure (HOPE) at formerly used defense sites in the changing Arctic

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $45.0K
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    Occupational Tobacco Dust Exposure Among the Women Beedi Workers in Mysore, India: A Mixed Methods Approach Using Photovoice

    Key Personnel (KP)

    2022

    $10.0K
    Active
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    Restoring Northeast Cape for the Health and Well-Being of the Yupik Communities of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $1.8M
    Active
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    Neurological Effects of Pollutant Exposures on Cocopah Lands

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $288.0K
    Active
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    Quantification of Perchlorate in Urine Samples from Yuma County, Arizona

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $10.0K
    Active
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    Development of a Contingency Plan for the Unarmored Threespine Stickleback in the Santa Clara River Watershed

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $1.2K
    Active
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    Protecting the Health of Future Generations: Assessing and Preventing Exposures to Endocrine-Disrupting Flame Retardant Chemicals & PCBs in Two Alaska Native Arctic Communities on St. Lawrence Island

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $41.3K
News
  • One Health initiative unites experts in human, animal and environmental health

    2022

  • UA Students Earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

    2019

Publications (6)
  • Sample preparation method for metal(loid) contaminant quantitation in rodent hair collected in Yuma County, Arizona

    2021

  • A community-engaged approach to environmental health research: process and lessons learned

    2021

  • Predicting future from past: The genomic basis of recurrent and rapid stickleback evolution

    2021

  • Health Impacts of Perchlorate and Pesticide Exposure: Protocol for Community-Engaged Research to Evaluate Environmental Toxicants in a US Border Community

    2021

  • Perchlorate exposure does not induce obesity or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in zebrafish

    2021

  • The rise and fall of the ancient northern pike master sex-determining gene

    2021

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