I grew up in the bustling cities of Dhaka and New York. I received my B.S. in Environmental Health Science from York College at the City University of New York (CUNY). My undergrad thesis was focused on assessing the quality of groundwater from NYC’s Brooklyn-Queens aquifer by studying heavy metals using ICP-MS. I received an M.S. at the CUNY School of Public Health with a focus on Environmental & Occupational Health Science. For my master thesis I studied the prevalence of tungsten (W) in air, dust, soil, water and urine near a new tungsten mine in Vietnam. I have also worked as a research assistant at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) where I worked on few projects which include studying W adsorption kinetics to ferrihydrite minerals, and developing a method of using mobile phone cameras as an analytical tool for measuring water arsenic in the field.

During my masters, I became interested in toxicology after learning about its critical role in enacting new regulations and standards. I joined the Human Toxicology Doctoral program in Fall 2016 because I was attracted by its interdisciplinary approach to the subject and flexibility presented to the student to shape their research and experience in the direction in which they would like to take in the field of toxicology.

Thesis Title: Inhalation Toxicity of Emerging, Exposomic Forms of Lead (Pb): Combining Population-Based Study with Validation Data from an Animal Model

Advisor: Peter Thorne, Ph.D.

Year of Graduation: 2021

Program: PhD

Current Position: Post-Doc Fellow, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences

Current Institution: NIEHS Metabolominics Branch         Raleigh-Durham, N.C.

Publications:

Haque E, Thorne PS, Nghiem AA, Yip CS, Bostick BC., Lead (Pb) concentrations and speciation in residential soils from an urban community impacted by multiple legacy sources, J Hazard Mater. 2021 Aug 15;416:125886.

Haque E, Moran ME, Thorne PS., Retrospective blood lead assessment from archived clotted erythrocyte fraction in a cohort of lead-exposed mother-child dyads, Sci Total Environ. 2021 Feb 1;754:142166

Haque E, Moran ME, Wang H, Adamcakova-Dodd A, Thorne PS., Validation of blood arsenic and manganese assessment from archived clotted erythrocyte fraction in an urban cohort of mother-child dyads, Sci Total Environ. 2022 Mar 1;810:152320

Areecheewakul S, Adamcakova-Dodd A, Givens BE, Steines BR, Wang Y, Meyerholz DK, Parizek NJ, Altmaier R, Haque E, O'Shaughnessy PT, Salem AK, Thorne PS., Toxicity assessment of metal oxide nanomaterials using in vitro screening and murine acute inhalation studies, NanoImpact. 2020 Apr;18:100214.

Parizek NJ, Steines BR, Haque E, Altmaier R, Adamcakova-Dodd A, O'Shaughnessy PT, Thorne PS., Acute in vivo pulmonary toxicity assessment of occupationally relevant particulate matter from a cellulose nanofiber board, NanoImpact. 2020 Jan;17:100210

Ronis MJ, Watt J, Pulliam CF, Williams AE, Alund AW, Haque E, Gadupudi GS, Robertson LW., Skeletal toxicity resulting from exposure of growing male rats to coplanar PCB 126 is associated with disruption of calcium homeostasis and the GH-IGF-1 axis and direct effects on bone formation, Arch Toxicol. 2020 Feb;94(2):389-399

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