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The Arsenic Research Program is
directed by Allan H. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health
at the University of California, Berkeley.
Our arsenic research activities began more than twelve years ago with a risk
assessment focusing mainly on cancer. This work revealed the cancer risks
from inorganic arsenic in drinking water to be potentially very high. As a
result, the Arsenic Health Effects Research Program was initiated to study
the health risks from exposure to inorganic arsenic. Currently it involves
international research projects in Argentina,
Chile, India, and Bangladesh,
as well as U.S.-based investigations in California
and Nevada.
There are many opportunities for doctoral student research within these
studies. Inquiries from potential PhD students in environmental or
occupational epidemiology are highly encouraged.
In 2001, with funding from the Fogarty
International Center of NIEHS, the International
Research and Training Program in Environmental and Occupational Health
was implemented to equip selected trainees with the skills and resources to
address occupational and environmental health problems in their own
countries. Worldwide collaborations include those with institutions in Nepal (Pokhara) and India
(Kolkata, West Bengal, Lucknow, Chennai, New Delhi, and Chandigarh).
Trainees in the Fogarty program may work on Project Well which has established a
dugwell program in West Bengal to provide
arsenic safe water supported by private donations.
The
research team is based at Berkeley, but the
program includes collaborators at the University
of Washington, Seattle,
the University of California, San Francisco,
as well as collaborators and staff working on projects in Argentina, Chile and West Bengal, India.
Funding sources include the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) , the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF),
and the California Cancer Research
Program (CRP).
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