Carmen Marsit

Dr. Carmen Marsit is  Rollins Distinguished Professor and Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research Strategy at the Rollins School of Public Health.

His research is focused broadly on understanding the molecular mechanisms responsible for mediating the impact of the environment in human disease, utilizing laboratory studies of a variety of molecular alterations through –omics technologies. His research has been applied to studies of cancer, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and common and rare conditions of childhood, including obesity, growth, and behavioral disorders, and he is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in children's environmental health and environmental impacts on the placenta. He has significant expertise in environmental epigenomics, the impact of the environment on mechanisms controlling the fundamental cellular process of gene expression control, and how alterations or variations to these features impact health and disease. His research utilized the exposome framework, and considers the chemical, physical, psychosocial, and structural factors across the lifetime, the body's response to those exposures, and their impacts on health. The overarching goal of this work is to both provide important biologic and mechanistic evidence to support policies related to the control of environmental contaminants and to provide insights into novel prevention and intervention strategies.

Dr. Marsit received his PhD in the Biological Sciences in Public Health at Harvard University, which was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to joining the faculty in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Emory in 2016, he held faculty appointments in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Brown University (2007-2011), and in Pharmacology and Toxicology and Epidemiology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (2011-2016). His research program has been supported by continuous NIH funding since 2008. He is Director of the NIEHS-supported Environmental Health Core Center at Emory, the HERCULES Exposome Research Center (P30).

Dr. Marsit also has a strong commitment to the training of the next generation of public health researchers and to mentoring and sponsoring of early career faculty,  demonstrated through his role as Director of the NIEHS-funded T32 Training Program in the Environmental Health Sciences and Toxicology at Emory and his leadership role at Rollins as executive associate dean for faculty affairs and research strategy.