Miranda Dziobak

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Instructor of Public Health

Education

• Ph.D.(c) in Environmental Health Sciences, University of South Carolina
• M.S. in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, College of Charleston
• B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Toledo

Research Interests

Taking a One Health approach to understanding impacts related to environmental contaminants. 

Affiliations

• Ralph H. Johnson Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
• University of South Carolina Center for Oceans and Human and Climate Change Interactions (OHHC2I Center)

Honors & Awards

• Dr. Gregory D. Bossart Memorial One Health Scholarship, 2023

Courses Taught

• PBHL 215: Intro to Public Health
• PBHL 345: Environmental Health
• PBHL 350: Epidemiology

Selected Publications

• Dziobak M.K., Fahlman A., Wells R.S., Takeshita R., Smith C., Gray A., Weinstein, J., & Hart, L.B. (2024), "First evidence of microplastic inhalation among free-ranging small cetaceans." PLoS ONE 19(10): e0309377.
• Hart, L.B., Dziobak, M., Wells, R.S., Berens McCabe, E., *Conger, E., *Curtin, T., *Knight, M., & Weinstein, J. (2023), “Plastic, it's what's for dinner: A preliminary comparison of ingested particles in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiopstruncatus) and their prey.” Oceans, 4(4), 409-422. 
• Hart, L.B., Dziobak, M., Wells, R.S., Ertel, B. & Weinstein, J. (2022), “Microplastics in gastric samples from common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) residing in Sarasota Bay FL (USA).” Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 947124.
• Dziobak, M.K., Balmer, B.C., Wells, R.S., Pisarski, E.C., Wirth, E.F., & Hart, L.B. (2022), “Temporal and Spatial Evaluation of Mono(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate (MEHP) Detection in Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncates) from Sarasota Bay, Florida, USA.” Oceans, 3(3), 231-249.
• Dziobak, M.K., Wells, R.S., Pisarski, E.C., Wirth, E.F., & Hart, L.B. (2022), “A Correlational Analysis of Phthalate Exposure and Thyroid Hormone Levels in Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncates) form Sarasota Bay, Florida (2010-2019).” Animals: an open access journal from MDPI, 12(7), 824.
• Dziobak, M.K., Wells, R.S., Pisarski, E.C., Wirth, E.F., & Hart, L.B. (2021), “Demographic Assessment of Mono(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate (MEHP) and Monoethyl Phthalate (MEP) Concentrations in Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncates) From Sarasota Bay, FL, USA.” GeoHealth, 5(5), e2020GH000348.
• Hart, L.B., Dziobak, M.K., Pisarski, E.C., Wirth, E.F., & Wells, R.S. (2020), “Sentinels of synthetics – a comparison of phthalate exposure between common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and human reference populations.” PLoS ONE 15(10), e0240506.