Dr. James Gomes is an associate professor at the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences of the University of Ottawa. He teaches determinants of health, epidemiology, and environmental health at the undergraduate level, and toxicology and risk assessment at the graduate level. He supervises graduate students in the population health program, the epidemiology program, and the certificate program in population health risk assessment. Dr. Gomes conducts research in environmental and occupational health and is affiliated with the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, the Institute of Population Health, the Institute of Environment, and the Center for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics. He is also on the expert panel of Risk Science International, and is consulted by Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada on environmental health risk assessment issues.
His graduate training centred on environmental health and during his post-doctoral training, he studied prostate cancer with a focus on molecular epidemiology and molecular toxicology. His primary area of research is population health risk assessment, with emphasis on occupational and environmental exposure and the etiology of adverse health effects. His current research looks at molecular epidemiology and molecular toxicology as a way to understand the role of endocrine disrupting chemicals in initiating and promoting hormonal cancers and birth defects. He is also interested in biomarker discovery and toxicity assessment of environmental and occupational exposures. Dr. Gomes is committed to combining population health studies with laboratory research by applying bench research to population health problems and vice-versa.
Professor Gomes is accepting new students for thesis supervision.