Area(s) of Interest: Climate change, disease ecology, and health equity
Project(s): My research focuses on the environmental determinants of Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) in California. Specifically, I have been examining how different agricultural land use decisions influence disease distribution, how short- and long-term climatic conditions alter the seasonal dynamics of disease incidence, and how dust conditions mediate pathogen transmission....
Area(s) of Interest: Causal inference, Bayesian sensitivity analysis, social epidemiology, and cancer
Project(s): Current research focuses on methods for addressing complex sources of bias in observational longitudinal cohorts, including the Healthy Worker Survivor Effect and informative delayed entry. These sources of bias threaten our ability to accurately estimate the causal effects of occupational exposures on worker health.
Area(s) of Interest: Exposure-response models for occupational health studies, cardiovascular disease, health disparities
Project(s): Current research focuses on racial health disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality. "To do so, I am using a cohort mortality study of hourly workers at General Motors (GM) plants in Michigan. Specifically, I am examining the racial composition of the GM workforce across plants and over time to identify the cumulative...
Project(s): Methodology for Estimating the Relative Dose and Lifetime Attributable Risk Associated with the Gamma Radiation Present on the Abandoned Uranium Mines on the Navajo Nation
Area(s) of Interest: Exposure assessment, ventilation, air pollution.
Project(s):Investigating newly evolving occupational particulate matter risks - an industrial hygiene assessment using the NIOSH NORA objective framework during a pandemic
Desired Employment:
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Area(s) of Interest: Daniel is a new PhD trainee in Electrical and Computer Engineering working with Professor Vougioukas and Fathallah, who will be working on collaborative robotic solutions in agricultural settings to reduce the burden of musculoskeletal disorders on farmworkers. Daniel Received a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering with honors from UC Davis.
Area(s) of Interest: Occupational Health and Safety, EHS/IH consulting, Exposure/Risk Assessment, Workers’ Rights, Ventilation, Heat Stress, Indoor Air Quality
Project(s): Methods evaluation and comparison of ventilation assessment using low-cost instruments
Desired Employment: Consulting, Industry, Government