Скачать или смотреть Ana M. Rule, PhD: Investigating E-cigarette Toxicity—Focus on Metals

Hosted by the Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC) at the ‪@JohnsHopkinsSPH‬, the monthly Innovations in Tobacco Control lecture series welcomes key researchers and experts to share ideas, present their work, and spark discussion. On October 15, 2025, Ana M. Rule, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, delivered a lecture entitled “Investigating E-cigarette Toxicity: Focus on Metals.”

Ana M. Rule, PhD, is an expert in exposure to airborne environmental hazards with 20 years of experience in research related to exposure assessment. Rule studied biomedical engineering at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and received her MHS and PhD in Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she is currently director of the Environmental Exposure Assessment Labs. Here she has established a research program that integrates advanced laboratory methods for the assessment of exposures in a multitude of matrices, including air, water, and soil as well as human and animal biospecimens. Rule’s lab also developed an innovative method to collect e-cigarette aerosol that allows researchers to measure chemicals in this aerosol, including nicotine and metals—becoming among the the first to establish that e-cigarettes are an important source of metal exposure. With more than 120 peer-reviewed publications to her name, Rule’s work has also received multiple honors, including a Fulbright Scholarship, a David L. Swift award in Environmental Health Engineering (twice), and a Johns Hopkins Discovery award for the Employing Lung Organoid Models to Test Carcinogenicity Associated with Electronic Cigarette Exposure (ELUCIDATE) Study, conducted alongside Dr. Michelle Vaz.