Dr. Balmes received his M.D. degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1976. After internal medicine training at Mount Sinai and pulmonary subspecialty, occupational medicine, and research training at Yale, he joined the faculty of USC in 1982. Four years later, he joined the faculty at UCSF and is currently Professor and Division Chief of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). He joined the faculty at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley in 2002. His major academic activities include his research laboratory, several collaborative epidemiological research projects, various advisory and editorial committees, and direction of the COEH since 2000.
effects of exposure to outdoor air pollution, effects of exposure to household air pollution, effects of early-life exposure to pesticides, effects of arsenic in drinking water, interactive health effects of exposures to air pollution and psychosocial stress, respiratory health
