Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health
fza3@pitt.edu

Firoz Abdoel Wahid is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. He is a native of Suriname where he graduated as a family physician in 2005, and with his master’s in public health in 2012. He has over 15 years of experience in public health, the last eight of which have been in environmental health. His public health career started in 2005 as the clinical coordinator of the National AIDS Program in Suriname. He pursued his doctorate in environmental health in 2018 at Tulane University. Dr. Abdoel Wahid is part of the Caribbean Consortium for Research in Environmental and Occupational Health focused on the impact of chemical and non-chemical stressors on birth outcomes. He has a long-standing history of teaching and has trained and mentored frontline workers in Suriname, as well as medical, physical therapy and public health students. His areas of expertise include global environmental health research, research training, and climate and health impact on vulnerable populations.