Dhitinut Ratnapradipa, PhD

Professor

Professor

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Contact

DTRatnapradipa@creighton.edu
School of Medicine
Public Health MPH (Master's)
Department of Clinical Research and Public Health
Family and Community Medicine
HLSB - Hixson Lied Science Building

Dhitinut Ratnapradipa, PhD

Professor

Professor

Dr. Dhitinut (DT) Ratnapradipa is Professor in the Public Health Program at Creighton University. Prior to his appointment at Creighton, he was a tenured professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX and at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL, where he served as the graduate director and MD/MPH Co-Director of the concurrent degree program with the SIU School of Medicine. Dr. Ratnapradipa was also clinical faculty at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and was adjunct faculty in the Department of Public Health Sciences, New Mexico State University, La Cruses, NM. Prior to academia, he, supervised the Health Promotion and Emerging Risks Program at the Rhode Island Department of Health.

Dr. Ratnapradipa’s research interest is environmental health promotion using risk communication and organizational behavior approaches. His current study is on environmental health risk perceptions among residents living in flood plains, funded by Creighton’s Health Science Strategic Investment Funds.  He has served on NIH and US EPA grant review panels, and has secured grants from the US EPA, CDC, HRSA and the states of Illinois. He completed fellowships with the Northeast Public Health Leadership Institute, the CDC/ATSDR Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute, the National Environmental Health Association/UL Ambassador Exchange, the ASTHO Environmental Public Health Peer-to-Peer Tracking Program, and the Visiting Partners Program in Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety at the University of Michigan Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering.

Dr. Ratnapradipa served on the Board of Directors for the Alliance for Healthy Homes. His professional contributions have been recognized by several organizations including National Environmental Health Association and the Society for Public Health Education. He is a technical editor for the Journal of Environmental Health and Associate Editor for Journal of International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research and Health Behavior and Policy Reviews.

Department

Clinical Research and Public Health

Position

Professor

Publications

  • Health behavior and policy review
    Hotalling Danielle, etal Analyzing Flood Risk Behaviors and Preparation in the Midwest Using the Health Belief Model 2025
  • FP essentials (Online)
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Environment and Health: Water and Soil Contamination
    545, p. 19 2024
  • FP essentials (Online)
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Environment and Health: Heavy Metal Toxicity
    545, p. 13 2024
  • FP essentials (Online)
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Environment and Health: Poisoning Management
    545, p. 7 2024
  • Journal of emergency management (Weston, Mass.)
    Boes Kevin, etal Developing a survey instrument to assess flood health beliefs among residents of river flood zones in the Heartland
    20:4, p. 333 - 345 2023
  • Journal of environmental health
    Cardinal Christine, etal Extreme Winter Storms
    84:7, p. 12 - 19 2022
  • American Journal of Health Studies
    Abrams Thereasa, etal Recurring Themes of Network Support Exhibited by Adult Burn Survivors: A Qualitative Investigation
    31:1, p. 10 - Jan 2021
  • Journal of Cancer Education
    Ratnapradipa Kendra L., etal Factors Associated with Having Ever Considered a Cancer Research Career
    36:3, p. 630 - 638 2021
  • Journal of Emergency Management
    Cardinal Christine, etal Communication strategies to facilitate emergency preparedness for Generation Z and college food pantries
    19:7, p. 99 - 107 2021
  • American journal of health studies
    Wilken Peggy, etal An Evaluation of the Non-Emergency Medical Transportation System of Rural Southern Illinois
    29:2 2020
  • American journal of health studies
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal Climatic Exposure Risk Associated With Skin Cancer
    30:1 2020
  • Health Behavior and Policy Review
    Xie Yue, etal How extensively are tobacco use policies implemented at behavioral health and substance treatment facilities? A pilot investigation
    7:5, p. 440 - 451 2020
  • Health Behavior and Policy Review
    Cardinal Christine, etal College students’ perceptions of vaping and vaping policy
    7:5, p. 397 - 406 2020
  • Health Educator
    Scarbrough Amanda W, etal Experiential Learning Using Graphic Information System to Promote Healthy College Eating Habits
    51:1, p. 19 2019
  • Health behavior and policy review
    Cardinal Christine, etal Health Policy Considerations in Texas Measles Outbreaks Past and Present
    6:5, p. 472 - 479 2019
  • Social Work in Health Care
    Abrams Thereasa E., etal Resiliency in burn recovery
    57:9, p. 774 - 793 2018
  • Journal of environmental health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal Implications of hurricane harvey on environmental public health in Harris County, Texas
    81:2, p. 24 - 32 2018
  • Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal Social vulnerability and Lyme disease incidence
    14:2 2017
  • Burns
    Abrams Thereasa E., etal Adult survivors' lived experience of burns and post-burn health
    42:1, p. 152 - 162 2016
  • Journal of environmental health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal What does the public know about environmental health? A qualitative approach to refining an environmental health awareness instrument
    77:8, p. 22 - 28 2015
  • Journal of environmental health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, 2012 NEHA/UL sabbatical report
    76:8, p. 28 - 33 2014
  • Journal of environmental health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal Preschool children's environmental exposures
    76:4, p. 12 - 17 2013
  • Journal of environmental health
    King Ewa, etal Mercury, lead, and cadmium in umbilical cord blood
    75:6, p. 38 - 43 2013
  • Journal of environmental health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal The 2011 Japanese earthquake
    74:6, p. 42 - 50 2012
  • American Journal of Health Education
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal The role of health education in addressing uncertainty about health and cell phone use—a commentary
    43:1, p. 5 - 7 2012
  • Health Educator
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal Measuring Environmental Health Perception among College Students
    43:2, p. 13 2011
  • American Journal of Health Education
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal Examining the breadth and depth of environmental health through a modified delphi technique
    42:1, p. 50 - 57 2011
  • American Journal of Health Education
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal Bed bug epidemic
    42:4, p. 245 - 251 2011
  • Journal of environmental health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal Food safety education
    73:6, p. 70 - 75 2011
  • Health Educator
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal An Introductory Lesson to Environmental Health: Media Analysis and Risk Reduction
    42:1, p. 12 2010
  • Applied Environmental Education and Communication
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal Environmental health risk communication
    9:4, p. 251 - 261 2010
  • Journal of environmental health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, etal Assessing consumer awareness about mercury in fish
    72:5, p. 16 - 21 2009
  • Medicine and health, Rhode Island
    Magee Susanna R., etal Biomonitoring in Rhode Island.
    91:3, p. 88 - 90 2008