A unifying theme throughout his graduate student and early professorial career is the entwined configuration of health, risk, and society, focusing on health issues as social problems. Currently, his research projects include a survey of vaccine risk perception; citizen-science alliances dealing with legacy pollution and sea-level rise in impoverished areas; and studying how the popular media presents the issue of cancer clusters. As a faculty member in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at UD, he regularly teaches quantitative sociological research methods, social statistics, and data analysis, as well as introductory sociology. Other courses that he has created include the Sociology of Diagnosis, as well as Environment and Health.