Research Topics

Research Topics

Welding

Current Projects

  • UAW-GM Cohort Studies

  • Diesel exhaust in Mining Studies (DEMS)

  • American Manufacturing Cohort (Alcoa)

Past Projects

  • Respiratory exposures to solvents and metalworking fluids in relation to chronic health outcomes: strategies for reducing bias within conditional modeling approaches

  • Estimating Causal Effects of Occupational Exposures

  • Targeted Learning in Estimating Heterogeneous Effects and Transporting Direct and Indirect Effects

  • The Effects of Chronic Arsenic Exposure on Thermogenesis and Type 2 Diabetes 

  • Shift Work Domains and Incident Risk Factors for Hypertension and Diabetes

  • Gender, blue-collar work, and depression in the U.S. aluminum industry 

  • Deaths of despair in an iconic industrial cohort of autoworkers  

  • Estimating the Effect of Occupational PM2.5 Exposure on Ischemic Heart Disease in the Presence of a Competing Risk 

  • Home Exposure to Particulate Matter in Children with Asthma 

  •  Maternal Exposure to Mixture of Pestcides and Neurologic Outcomes in Children   

  • Novel interventions, models, and strategies for schistosomiasis elimination     

  • Occupational Exposure to Metalworking Fluids and Incidence of Cancer in the United Autoworkers- General Motors Cohort: Assessing and Accounting for the Health Worker Survivor Effect   

  • The Association between Cooking- Related Household Air Pollution and Chronic Respiratory Disease Burden in Rural Malawi