We are pleased to welcome Dr. Rania Sabty, candidate for the EHS Non-Tenure Track Clinical Assistant Professor position, for a teaching seminar on Wednesday, October 29th!

Dr. Sabty has a PhD in Environmental Health Sciences and an MPH in Environmental Health Sciences with Industrial Hygiene concentration. She is credentialed as a Registered Environmental Health Specialist.She is an independent consultant in environmental health and safety. Most recently, she worked for three years at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) as Program Manager and Educator for the Western Region Universities Consortium, a four-university partnership funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and led by UCLA. She managed NIEHS funding grants to build capacity among workers and communities, in EPA regions 9 and 10, for managing hazardous materials and disasters. Her role included working closely with NIEHS, university partners, community-based organizations, local environmental and public health departments, environmental health professionals, student interns and graduate student researchers.

She has over twenty years of experience in curriculum development and teaching in environmental health at both undergraduate and graduate levels, in-person and online. Her last academic role was Assistant Professor in Environmental and Occupational Health at California State University, Northridge. Her research spans community, workplace, and laboratory settings. She has published peer-reviewed literature. Her research topics include outdoor worker heat stress, children’s exposure to environmental hazards in low-income housing, indoor air pollutant mitigation in schools near major roadways, and characterization of worker exposures to chromium-based paint aerosols in the aerospace industry. She has experience in advising and mentoring students at undergraduate and graduate levels.

She has extensive experience in program assessment and accreditation, serving in leadership roles with the National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council (EHAC) for the past seven years. She has been involved with government agencies; for the past eight years, she has advised the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Department of Toxic Substances Control, providing technical guidance on residential soil cleanup in lead-impacted communities. She has also contributed to environmental policymaking in California.

She is passionate about teaching and dedicated to integrating environmental health science with education, professional practice, and community-based projects that reduce environmental health risks. She values collaboration on multidisciplinary teams, especially those that address community needs and create meaningful opportunities for student engagement.