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Brooks B. Gump

Contact Information:

bbgump@syr.edu

315.443.2208

430 E. Barclay

Brooks B. Gump

Falk Family Endowed Professor, Public Health Department


Courses

  • 2025 Spring
    • PHP 401 Epidemiology
    • PHP 306 Understanding Health Systems: Macro & Micro Perspectives
  • 2024 Fall
    • PHP 706 Environmental Determinants of Global Health
    • PHP 306 Understanding Health Systems: Macro & Micro Perspectives
  • 2024 Spring
    • PHP 401 Epidemiology
    • PHP 499 Honors Capstone Project
    • PHP 306 Understanding Health Systems: Macro & Micro Perspectives
  • 2023 Fall
    • PHP 706 Environmental Determinants of Global Health
    • PHP 306 Understanding Health Systems: Macro & Micro Perspectives
  • 2023 Spring
    • PHP 401 Epidemiology
    • PHP 306 Understanding Health Systems: Macro & Micro Perspectives

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1995

Bio

Brooks Gump’s research seeks to understand environmental impacts on children's health outcomes, with a focus on exposures to toxicants and psychosocial stressors. His current research is exploring methods to buffer the impacts of these chronic exposures. As a separate line of inquiry, he also considers the impact of work vacations on health and functioning.

Research Grant Awards and Projects

"Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for HIV+ hazardous drinkers: A randomized clinical trial", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH)/DHHS.

"REU: Training Diverse Undergraduate Teams of Veterans and Non-Veterans to Conduct Trauma Research with Veterans:Collaborative Research", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

"Racial Differences in Arterial Stiffness and Cognitive Function", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH)/DHHS.

"Brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for HIV-infected At-risk Drinkers", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH)/DHHS.

"Using omics technologies to identify biomarkers linking arsenic and heavy metal exposure to Bengali children's cardiovascular disease risk", Sponsored by State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Selected Publications

Presentations and Events

Hill, D. T., Petroni, M., Jandev, V., Atallah-Yunes, N., Bendinskas, K., Brann, L., Heffernan, K. S., MacKenzie, J. A., Palmer, C. D., Parsons, P. J., Collins, M. B., Gump, B. B., Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences , "Linking soil metal concentrations with children’s blood and urine biomarkers in Syracuse NY" (June, 2024)

Glasgow, A., Lefferts, W., Gump, B. B., Hefferan, K. S., Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine, "Racial differences in heart rate, cardiac autonomic modulation and physical activity in children" (2020)

Brydon, C., Wolford, K., Gump, B. B., EPA Meeting, "The Association Between Childhood Trauma and PTSD in Veterans: Mediation by Moral Injury and Optimism. Clinical Psychology Symposium: Veterans and Trauma" (2019)

/dtjas, N. H., Castro, I., Wolford, K., Gump, B. B., ResilienceCon, "Psychological flexibility moderates the link between combat Exposure and hopelessness in military veterans" (April, 2018)

NIEHS/NHLBI's Webinar Series "Understanding the Combined Effects of Environmental Chemical and Non-Chemical Stressors", "The interaction of psychological stress and metal exposures: Effects on children's cardiovascular functioning and subclinical cardiovascular disease" (April, 2018)

Honors and Accolades

Chancellor's Citation for Excellence - Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction, Syracuse University: One University Awards (2021)

Faculty of the Year in Research, Syracuse University, Falk College (2012 - 2013)

President's Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity or Research (2008)

Provost's Award for Creative and Scholarly Activity or Research, Syracuse University (2002)

President's Award for Excellent in Academic Advisement (2001)