Dr. Alok Deoraj

Dr. Alok Deoraj

Graduate Program Director, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, FIU

Dr. Alok Deoraj possesses significant experience in teaching, research, and management within both academic and industry environments. Currently, his main focus lies in developing curricula and instructing undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. courses in the fields of Global and Environmental Public Health, as well as One Health. Furthermore, Dr. Deoraj engages in research endeavors to investigate the impact of complex environmental exposures on the molecular pathology of carcinogenesis and the metastasis of aggressive cancers. He employs innovative health risk assessment methods, utilizing integrative bioinformatics and machine learning approaches to elucidate the intricate pathways through which complex mixtures of environmental pollutants contribute to the unfavorable prognoses observed in cancer patients.

Education

  • Certificate of Management: Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business, Belmont University. Nashville. TN.
  • Ph.D.: National Institute of Immunology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
  • MS: Patna University, Patna. India

Courses

  • IDH3035  One Health: Of the People, By the People, For the People (Global Learning (GL) and Honors College Course) *
  • IDS3183  Health without Border (GL and University Core Curriculum Course)*
  • PHC6315 Introduction to Environmental Health 
  • PHC6311 Environmental Health Risk Assessment
  • PHC6662 Global One Health*

*Developed new courses