Biography
Dr. Alok Deoraj, Ph.D., is the Graduate Program Director (MPH) and a Teaching Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences of the College of Public Health and Social Work at FIU. He has extensive teaching, research, and management experience in the academic and private sectors. His primary focus is on teaching Global and Environmental Public Health courses to undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students. His research interest is in the Environmental Toxicology area to delineate gene-environment interactions of complex environmental exposures on reproductive cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.
At FIU he is also a member faculty of the Global Learning, the Biomolecular Sciences Institute (BSI), STEM Transformation Institute as well as Statistical Machine Learning Group (SMLG). Dr. Deoraj was conferred with FIU faculty awards for Excellence in Teaching in 2017 and for Service in 2019. Dr. Deoraj has over 75 publications in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and in the proceedings of professional meetings and conferences. He serves on the editorial board of the PLOS ONE journal since 2013. He believes in creating an environment to inspire a love of learning among his students. Dr. Deoraj has a Master of Science (MS) degree in Zoology from Patna University, India, a Ph.D. from the National Institute of Immunology-Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India, and a Certificate of Business Management from Belmont University, Nashville, TN, USA.