Detectable levels of arsenic can be present in apple-based products commonly consumed by infants and young children. However, the association between apple products consumption and exposure to arsenic during childhood is not well-characterized. Post-Doctoral Fellow Antonio Signes-Pastor, and colleagues, have investigated the association between apple products consumption among one-year-old infants […]
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Geisel and UNH Share Initial Results from Statewide COVID-19 Survey
Researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine have published the first data from a COVID-19 community survey launched Friday in collaboration with the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Survey Center. Early results indicate that just over half of the 1,029 New Hampshire households surveyed (and 68% of individuals within those […]
Epidemiology Faculty Publishes Investigation of PFAS Mixtures and Thyroid Hormone Concentrations
QBS Student, Rebecca Lebeaux, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Megan Romano and colleagues, have published research regarding the influence of PFAS exposure during pregnancy on thyroid hormones found in maternal and cord sera. You can read the paper here.
Epidemiology Faculty Publish Randomized Controlled Trial on Perioperative Staph transmission and Health Care Associated Infection Prevention
Professor of Epidemiology, Jeremiah Brown and colleagues, have published an RCT in the JAMA Network on improving basic preventative measures regarding Staph infection transmission and surgical site infections. You can read the article here.
COVID-19 New Hampshire population survey
Researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Survey Center, have launched a COVID-19 community survey, in an effort to track the progress of the outbreak in New Hampshire and factors associated with transmission. The online survey has been launched and sent […]
Department of Epidemiology Faculty Publish Editorial on COVID-19 Defense
Professor of Epidemiology, Jeremiah Brown and colleagues, have published an editorial on COVID-19 defense and optimizing infection control. Please read the article here.
Dr. Hoen Promoted to Associate Professor
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Hoen for being promoted to Associate Professor in October of 2019. Dr. Hoen was appointed as an Assistant Professor in 2014. She is the author of 50 publications and leads a National Library of Medicine-funded project aimed at developing methods for studying the human […]
Dr. Brown Promoted to Full Professor
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Jeremiah Brown on his recent promotion to full Professor with tenure. Dr. Brown’s team has been with the department for five months and he is the author of over 125 publications and is leading three NIH R01s. We look forward to what he and […]
Department of Epidemiology Chair Dr. Margaret Karagas served on the NAS Committee for “EPA’s Updated Problem Formulation and Protocol for the Inorganic Arsenic IRIS Assessment”.
Dr. Margaret Karagas, Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, recently served on the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine Committee on the Evaluation of the Protocol for the IRIS Toxicological Review of Arsenic. There report was released this week (10/31/19).
Center for Molecular Epidemiology investigator Saeed Hassanpour receives R01
Saeed Hassanpour, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Project Leader for the Center of Molecular Epidemiology has received an R01, “Clinicopathologic and Genetic Profiling through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Precision Lung Cancer Management.” The overall goal of this project is to build novel computational methods to […]