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Irina Dardynskaia

Research Associate Professor

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

Contact

Building & Room:

686 SPHPI

Address:

1603 W. Taylor St.

Office Phone:

(312) 355-0138

About

Dr. Irina Dardynskaia, PhD, is a research associate professor of environmental and occupational health sciences.  She is leading a National Institutes of Health-funded study of HIV risk and protection among labor migrants to Russia, and a second study on risk reduction strategies for populations of the US and Russian Arctic exposed to persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals due to changing climates.  Her research interests include health effects of climate change on indigenous communities; health effects of radiation and chemical exposures on populations of low and middle income countries; environmental global health risks and risks reduction strategies, and global HIV/AIDS health care policy.