Population Health Branch (PHB)
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Liam O'Fallon, M.A.
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Tel 984-287-3298
Fax 919-316-4606
[email protected] -
P.O. Box 12233Mail Drop K3-12Durham, NC 27709
Liam O’Fallon, M.A., is a Health Specialist in the Division of Extramural Research and Training where he is actively involved in research programs that advance community-engaged approaches as well as communication strategies in the context of environmental public health and health disparities. O’Fallon leads the Partnerships for Environmental Public Health program at NIEHS, which fosters interactions among projects from different NIEHS-funded programs. He directs the Community Engagement Cores that are a part of the network of Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers. He is the program officer for the Research to Action Program that requires projects to use community-engaged research methods to conduct and to translate research findings into public health action. O’Fallon has led the development of two new programs at NIEHS: the Pediatric and Reproductive Environmental Health Scholars and Responsible Report Back of Environmental and non-Genomic Research Results. Most recently, he became a project scientist for the NIH Common Fund’s Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity program. O’Fallon co-leads the NIEHS Environmental Justice & Environmental Health Disparities Faculty and is an active member of the US Department of Health and Human Services Environmental Justice Working Group.
O'Fallon received his master’s degree in Latin American Studies, from Tulane University in 1997. He specialized in medical anthropology and international health with a focus on cultural perceptions of health and well-being. He applied this knowledge at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1997-1999), where he coordinated an interagency, binational working group addressing environmental health issues along the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Programs and Areas of Specialty
- Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research
- Community-Engaged Research & Citizen Science
- Environmental Health Literacy
- Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers
- Environmental Justice
- Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) Program
- Report Back of Environmental Health Research Results
- Research to Action Program
- Pediatric and Reproductive Environmental Health Scholars
- Tribal Environmental Health