Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences   Role: Faculty Title: Assistant Professor Office No: 4054 Address: 555 South Floyd St. Suite 4026 Phone: 502-852-3288 Fax: 502-852-3304 Student Office Hours: Wednesday 10AM - 11AM E-mail:  irma.ramos@louisville.edu

Background

Dr. Irma N. Ramos was born and educated in Puerto Rico, a US territory in the Caribbean. She completed her training in Pediatrics at the University of Puerto Rico Health Sciences Center in 1982. After several years in clinical practice, Dr. Ramos moved to Texas where she joined the National Institute of Environmental Health Science Center for Environmental and Rural Health at Texas A&M University. As director of the Community Outreach and Education Program, she developed curricula for training of health care professionals (primarily nurses and physicians) and community health educators in human environmental health and carried out community based research in rural communities in Texas.
In October 2003, Dr. Ramos joined the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences as Assistant Professor. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Health Research Services Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. She has a strong expertise in community outreach and environmental and health education.

Research Interests

Dr. Ramos research interests focus on the fetal basis of environmentally-induced pediatric cancers, community-based research partnerships, and the health effects of radiation exposures. She is also interested in children and minority environmental health issues. Dr. Ramos has participated in research funded by the National Institute of Health, Health Research Services Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, and National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. The NIOSH grant specifically investigates work-related cancer mortality. A newly developing collaboration will focus on the application of sophisticated biomonitoring equipment and principles of exercise physiology and ergonomics to prevent workplace injuries.

Service

Professional Membership:

1988-present American Academy of Pediatrics

1988-present American Medical Association

1995-present College of Physicians and Surgeons of Puerto Rico

2004-present American Association of Public Health

2005 Brown Cancer Center, Louisville Health Science Center

Professional Activities:

Student Advisement University of Washington, School of Public Health

2003-2004 Lora Baker Davis, MPH Practicum

Academic Program Committees, University of Louisville, School of Public Health:

2004 MPH Promotion and Recruitment Committee

2004 MPH Admission Committee

2004 MPH Accreditation Committee

2005 SPHIS Council of Chairs and Deans

2005 SPHIS Diversity Committee

Search Committees, University of Louisville, School of Public Health:

2004 Chair of the Dept. of Health Management and Systems Sciences

2004 Chair of the Dept. of Health Knowledge and Cognitive Sciences

2005 Faculty of the Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

Advisory Boards:

1998-2004 Member of the Community Partnership Board, Bryan/College Station, Texas

1999-2002 Member of the Advisory Board of the Family Health Clinic, College Station, Texas

2001-2002 NIEHS Community Outreach and Education Program Annual Meeting Planning Committee

2002-2004 Medico-Legal Ethics Advisory Committee, NIEHS MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX

2005 Advisory Group for the MPH Issues Course, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville

Invited Presentations:

2000 Environmental Health Training of Promotoras, Wayne State University, NIEHS Center Directors Meeting

2001 Community Outreach Programs in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, North Carolina

2003 Safe Drinking Water: What Health Care Professionals Should Know, Texas Department of Health Continuing Medical Education Program

2003 Safe Drinking Water: What Promotoras in the Lower Rio Grande Valley Should Know

2004 Culture and Diversity: Case 3 Juanita Esposito, University of Louisville, School of Medicine Students

Office Hours

By Appointment

Contact Barbara Parker, Administrative Assistant, 502/852-3290

My Support Staff

Barbara Parker, Administrative Assistant, 502/852-3290

Publications

Journal Articles
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"Como Evitar la Intoxicacion Causada por Alimentos? (Food Poisoning)"
I. Ramos. La Prensa; ():
Publication Date: September 1997

"Tos ferina (Pertusis) y La Nueva Vacuna (Pertussis [Whooping Cough] and The New Vaccine)"
I. Ramos. La Prensa; ():
Publication Date: October 1997

"Contaminacion Ambiental Secundaria al Tabaco y La Salud de su Nino (Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Children)"
I. Ramos. La Prensa; ():
Publication Date: November 1997
 
"Otitis Externa/Otitis del Nadador (Swimmer?s Ear (External Otitis)"
I. Ramos. La Prensa; ():
Publication Date: May 1998

"Por que Debemos Inmunizar A Nuestros Ninos? (Why Immunize Your Children.)"
I. Ramos. La Prensa; ():
Publication Date: May 1997

"Como Podemos Prevenir el Sarampion? (How can Measles be Prevented?)"
I. Ramos. La Prensa; ():
Publication Date: March 1998

"Proteja a su Nino Contra La Hepatitis B (Protect Your Baby Against Hepatitis B)"
I. Ramos. La Prensa; ():
Publication Date: June 1997
 
"El Sol y la Salud de su Piel (Sun-Safety Tips)"
I. Ramos. La Prensa; ():
Publication Date: July 1997
 
"Como Cuidar a un Nino con Croup? (Caring for a Child with Croup)"
I. Ramos. La Prensa; ():
Publication Date: January 1998
 
"El Porque no Debemos Sacudir a un Infante (Shaken Baby Syndrome)"
I. Ramos. La Prensa; ():
Publication Date: February 1998
 
"Plantas Venenosas y los Ninos: Consejos para la epoca de Navidad (Poisonous Plants and Children: Tips for the Holidays)"
I. Ramos. La Prensa; ():
Publication Date: December 1997
 
"Varicela y La Nueva Vacuna (Chickenpox and the New Vaccine)"
I. Ramos. La Prensa; ():
Publication Date: August 1997
 
"La Alergia Durante La Primavera (Spring Time Allergy)"
I. Ramos. La Prensa; ():
Publication Date: April 1998
 
"Embracing the Local: Enriching Scientific Research, Education, Outreah on the Texas-Mexico Border through a Participatory Action Research Partnership"
Marlynn L. May, Gloria J. Bowman, Kenneth S. Ramos, Irma N. Ramos. Environmental Health Perspective; 111(13): 1571-1576
Publication Date: 2003
 
"Environmental Health Education in Colonias along the Texas-Mexico Border and Other Rural Disadvantages Communities of Texas"
I. Ramos. NIEHS COEP Website http://www.apps.niehs.nih.gov/coeprc/spotlight/0503.cfm; ():
Publication Date: 2003
 
"Promotoras and environmental health awareness in the colonies."
May, M., Ramos, I.N. and Ramos, K.S.. Rural Voices; www.ruralhome.org/pubs/ruralvoc.htm():
Publication Date: 2002
 
"Environmental Health Training of Promotoras in Colonias along the Texas-Mexico Border"
Ramos IN,May M,Ramos KS. American Journal of Public Health; 91(4): 568-570
Publication Date: 2001 Apr
 
"Asthma and the Environment"
I. Ramos. CERH Website, Texas A&M University; ():
Publication Date: 2000
 
"Allergic Rhinitis/Spring Time Allergy (Rhinitis Alergica/Alergia Primaveral)"
I. Ramos. CERH Website, Texas A&M University; ():
Publication Date: 2000
 
"Lead Poisoning"
I. Ramos. CERH Website, Texas A&M University; ():
Publication Date: 2000
 
"Contaminacion Ambiental Secundaria al Humo del Cigarrillo y la Salud de los Ninos, Adolescentes y Adultos (Environmental Tobacco Smoke and the Health of Children, Adolescent and Adults)"
I. Ramos. CERH Website, Texas A&M University; ():
Publication Date: 1999
 
"El Sol y la Salud de su Piel (Sun Safety Tips)"
I. Ramos. CERH Website, Texas A&M University; ():
Publication Date: 1999
 
"Intoxicacion con Monoxido de Carbono (Preventing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning)"
I. Ramos. CERH Website, Texas A&M University; ():
Publication Date: 1999
 
"Holiday Health Highlights"
I. Ramos. CERH Website, Texas A&M University; ():
Publication Date: 1999
 
"El Porque Debemos Inmunizar a Nuestro Ninos"
I. Ramos. Texas A&M University Health Science Center Website; ():
Publication Date: 1997
 
"Haemophilus influenzae Type b (Hib): Part I"
I. Ramos. Texas A&M University Health Science Center Website; ():
Publication Date: 1997
 
"Haemophilus influenzae Type b Part II: Epiglotitis; Periorbital and Orbital Cellulitis"
I. Ramos. Texas A&M University Health Science Center Website; ():
Publication Date: 1997
 
"Rubella"
I. Ramos. Texas A&M University Health Science Center Website; ():
Publication Date: 1997
 
"Polio y la Nueva Vacuna (Poliomyelitis and the New Polio Vaccine)"
I. Ramos. Texas A&M University Health Science Center Website; ():
Publication Date: 1997
 
"Sarampion (Measles)"
I. Ramos. Texas A&M University Health Science Center Website; ():
Publication Date: 1997
 
"Parotiditis/Paperas (Mumps)"
I. Ramos. Texas A&M University Health Science Center Website; ():
Publication Date: 1997
 
"Proteja a su Nino Contra la Hepatitis B (Protect Your Baby Against Hepatitis B)"
I. Ramos. Texas A&M University Health Science Center Website; ():
Publication Date: 1997
 
"Flu/Influenza"
I. Ramos. Texas A&M University Health Science Center Website; ():
Publication Date: 1997