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13 August 2010: Alicia Fraser defends her dissertation "Assessing Exposure to Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Polyfluroinated Compounds from Diet and the Indoor Environment"

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13 August 2010: Alicia Fraser defends her dissertation Assessing Exposure to Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Polyfluroinated Compounds from Diet and the Indoor Environment.

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13 August 2010: Alicia Fraser defends her dissertation "Assessing Exposure to Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Polyfluroinated Compounds from Diet and the Indoor Environment"

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28 August 2010: We will run a half day workshop on Disease Mapping using Generalized Additive Models at ISES/ISEE 2010.

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19 July 2010: Two new papers examine the statistical properties of using GAMs for mapping of disease. GAMs compare favorably with the widely used spatial scan statistic SaTScan in many cases.

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Publications and Conference Presentations (Includes many full text reprints)

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Publications and Conference Presentations (Includes many reprints or links to open access journal reprints)

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30 June 2010: New Jersey Public Television reports on Kate Hoffman's new study finding an association between ADHD and PFOA.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and Principal Investigator of Project 2 in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and Principal Investigator of Project 2 in the BU Superfund Research Program.

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15 June 2010: Jessica Nelson defends her dissertationAnalyzing Biomonitoring Surveillance Data on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals for Population Exposure Patterns and Health Outcomes

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15 June 2010: Jessica Nelson defends her dissertation Analyzing Biomonitoring Surveillance Data on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals for Population Exposure Patterns and Health Outcomes

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3 May 2010: Kate Hoffman defends her dissertation "Polyfluoroalkyl Chemicals and Learning and Developmental Disabilities: Epidemiology and Exposure Assessment"

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3 May 2010: Kate Hoffman defends her dissertation Polyfluoroalkyl Chemicals and Learning and Developmental Disabilities: Epidemiology and Exposure Assessment

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15 June 2010: Jessica Nelson defends her dissertationAnalyzing Biomonitoring Surveillance Data on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals for Population Exposure Patterns and Health Outcomes

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3 May 2010: Kate Hoffman defends her dissertation "Polyfluoroalkyl Chemicals and Learning and Developmental Disabilities: Epidemiology and Exposure Assessment"

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26 March 2010: Graduate student Robin Young defends her dissertation "Properties of Hypothesis Tests Using Generalized Additive Models with Smoothers of Geographic Location in Spatial Statistics"

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26 March 2010: Robin Young defends her dissertation "Properties of Hypothesis Tests Using Generalized Additive Models with Smoothers of Geographic Location in Spatial Statistics"

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26 March 2010: Graduate student Robin Young defends her dissertation "Properties of Hypothesis Tests Using Generalized Additive Models with Smoothers of Geographic Location in Spatial Statistics"
25 March 2010: New paper on the spatial distribution of rheumatoid arthrititis in the US.

November 25, 2009, at 05:13 PM by twebster -

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The community context of environmental hazards, including biomonitoring, international environmental health.

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The community context of environmental hazards, including biomonitoring, and international environmental health.

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. How do people feel about participating in a biomonitoring study?

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The community context of environmental hazards, including biomonitoring, international environmental health.

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. How do people feel about participating in a biomonitoring study?

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. How do people feel about participating in a biomonitoring study?

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Other research interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health and environmental health aspects of obesity.

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Other research interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health.

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Endocrine disruption and "obesogens"

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Endocrine disruption and "environmental obesogens"

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Endocrine disruption and "obesogens".

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Endocrine disruption and "obesogens"

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs). We are currently investigating human exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), new and alternative flame retardants, and perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs). We are currently investigating human exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), new and alternative flame retardants, and perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).
Endocrine disruption and "obesogens".

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We have a doctoral training grant in environmental epidemiology in community settings.

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We have a training grant for doctoral students interested in environmental epidemiology in community settings.

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We have a doctoral training grant ? in environmental epidemiology in community settings.

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We have a doctoral training grant in environmental epidemiology in community settings.

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We have a doctoral training grant in environmental epidemiology.

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We have a doctoral training grant ? in environmental epidemiology in community settings.

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My department, |Environmental Health, offers both doctoral and masters degrees.

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My department, Environmental Health, offers both doctoral and masters degrees.

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My department, Environmental Health, offers both doctoral and masters degrees.

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My department, |Environmental Health, offers both doctoral and masters degrees.

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local public health history). I have a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with include the Senses Bureau at the University of California San Diego, and the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York.

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local public health history). I have a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with include the Senses Bureau at the University of California San Diego, and the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS) at Queens College, City University of New York.

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local public health history). I have a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with include the Senses Bureau, University of California San Diego, and the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York.

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local public health history). I have a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with include the Senses Bureau at the University of California San Diego, and the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York.

November 22, 2009, at 01:00 PM by twebster -

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local public health history). I have a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with include: The Senses Bureau, University of California San Diego; Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York.

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local public health history). I have a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with include the Senses Bureau, University of California San Diego, and the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and Principal Investigator of Project 2 in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and Principal Investigator of Project 2 in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and Principal Investigator of Project 2 in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and Principal Investigator of Project 2 in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program.

November 22, 2009, at 12:57 PM by twebster -

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3 December 2008: A news article by Kellyn Betts in ES&T discusses decabromodiphenyl ethane (DBDPE), another new flame retardant we found in house dust.
13 October 2008: Press coverage of our time-space analysis of breast cancer on Cape Cod.
22 September 2008: Our multilevel analysis of breast cancer was featured in a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) press release on spatial epidemiology
13 August 2008: New publication on time-space clustering of breast cancer on Cape Cod, including a cool animation.
23 July 2008: New publication on new and alternative brominated flame retardants in dust, including components of Firemaster 550, a replacement for penta. For more information, look here.
July 2008: Our PBDE work was featured in the Summer 2008 edition of Bostonia magazine
20 May 2008: Doctoral student Greg Howard defends his dissertation on chemical mixtures.
1 May 2008: Work by our PBDE group heavily featured in a news story in Environmental Health Perspectives.
1 May 2008: Doctoral student Lisa Gallagher defends her dissertation on the use of GIS in exposure assessment.
25 April 2008: New publication on multilevel modeling of breast cancer. See publications.
18 April 2008: Our PBDE work featured on Nature Network Boston.
27 March 2008: Three new papers on exposure to PBDEs are in press: on PBDEs in handwipes, measuring PBDEs in dust, linking PBDEs in dust to household products via XRF. See publications.
6 March 2008: Paper on PBDEs by doctoral student Nerissa Wu one of the most cited papers published in ES&T in 2007.

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. How do people feel about [[http://www.ehjournal.net/content/8/1/4|participating] in a biomonitoring study?

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. How do people feel about participating in a biomonitoring study?

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. How do people feel about participating in a biomonitoring study? Read our new paper.

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. How do people feel about [[http://www.ehjournal.net/content/8/1/4|participating] in a biomonitoring study?

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Methodological aspects of environmental epidemiology, particularly issues of spatial epidemiology: disease mapping and clusters, ecologic bias, and the use of combinations of individual- and group-level data.
Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs). We are currently investigating human exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), new and alternative flame retardants, and perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).
Interactions of chemicals.
The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. How do people feel about participating in a biomonitoring study? Read our new paper.
Ever heard of Dioxin Embalming Fluid or the California Waters of Life? Read about them and other bits of public health history.
Other research interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health and environmental health aspects of obesity.

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Methodological aspects of environmental epidemiology, particularly issues of spatial epidemiology: disease mapping and clusters, ecologic bias, and the use of combinations of individual- and group-level data.
Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs). We are currently investigating human exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), new and alternative flame retardants, and perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).
Interactions of chemicals.
The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. How do people feel about participating in a biomonitoring study? Read our new paper.
Ever heard of Dioxin Embalming Fluid or the California Waters of Life? Read about them and other bits of public health history.
Other research interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health and environmental health aspects of obesity.

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs). We are currently investigating human exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), new and alternative flame retardants, and perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs). We are currently investigating human exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), new and alternative flame retardants, and perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs). I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), as well as perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs). We are currently investigating human exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), new and alternative flame retardants, and perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants/semivolatile organic compounds. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), as well as perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs). I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), as well as perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), as well as perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants/semivolatile organic compounds. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), as well as perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), as well as perfluoroalkyl chemicals [[PFCs|(PFCs)].

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), as well as perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), as well as perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), as well as perfluoroalkyl chemicals [[PFCs|(PFCs)].

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2 November 2009: New article in Environ Health Perspect. by doctoral student Jessica Nelson, Elizabeth Hatch and Tom Webster on the association between perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) and cholesterol in the general US population. It received extensive press coverage.

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2 November 2009: New article in Environ Health Perspect. by doctoral student Jessica Nelson, Elizabeth Hatch and Tom Webster on the association between perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) and cholesterol in the general US population. It received extensive press coverage, including an interview of Jessica Nelson on NPR's "Living on Earth."

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2 November 2009: New article in Environ Health Perspect. by doctoral student Jessica Nelson, Elizabeth Hatch and Tom Webster on the association between perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) and cholesterol in the general US population.

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2 November 2009: New article in Environ Health Perspect. by doctoral student Jessica Nelson, Elizabeth Hatch and Tom Webster on the association between perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) and cholesterol in the general US population. It received extensive press coverage.

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2 November 2009: New article by doctoral student Jessica Nelson, Elizabeth Hatch and Tom Webster on the association between perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) and cholesterol in the general US population.

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2 November 2009: New article in Environ Health Perspect. by doctoral student Jessica Nelson, Elizabeth Hatch and Tom Webster on the association between perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) and cholesterol in the general US population.

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2 November 2009: New article by doctoral student Jessica Nelson, Elizabeth Hatch and Tom Webster on the association between perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) and cholesterol in the general US population.

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), as well as perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs).

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10 December 2007: Doctoral student Joe Allen defended his dissertation.
4 December 2007: Doctoral student Greg Howard presents at the Superfund Basic Research Program annual meeting.
Workshop on ecologic inference 28-30 November
Harry Potter and chemical interactions
5 July 2007: New paper on ecologic bias
21 June 2007: Doctoral student Greg Howard wins a best poster award at Society for Epidemiology Research
13 June 2007: News story "Finding PBDEs in couches and TVs" in ES&T
11 June 2007: Doctoral student Jessica Nelson awarded Switzer Environmental Fellowship
24 May 2007: What do PBDEs have to do with the the cartoon character Pigpen?
27 April 2007: Doctoral student Joseph Allen wins award at BFR 2007
17 January 2007: News story "The risk of PBDEs in dust" in ES&T
11 December 2006: Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring

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for older news, look here

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October 2009. News article by Naomi Lubick in Environmental Health Perspectives ''PBDEs in Diet: Meat Fat a Leading Source" on our recent PBDE and diet paper, Fraser et al 2009.

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18 March 2009: News article by Kellyn Betts, CSI-style tools offer clues about flame retardants in dust discusses our new paper on the use of scanning electron microscopes and other "CSI" tools to investigate PBDEs in dust.

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18 March 2009: News article by Kellyn Betts, "CSI-style tools offer clues about flame retardants in dust" discusses our new paper on the use of scanning electron microscopes and other "CSI" tools to investigate PBDEs in dust.

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18 August 2009: News article by Kellyn Betts, Discontinued pajama flame retardant detected in baby products and house dust, discusses our new paper on TDCPP (chlorinated tris).

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18 August 2009: News article by Kellyn Betts, "Discontinued pajama flame retardant detected in baby products and house dust," discusses our new paper on TDCPP (chlorinated tris).

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18 August 2009: News article by Kellyn Betts, Discontinued pajama flame retardant detected in baby products and house dust, discusses our new paper on TDCPP (chlorinated tris).

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18 August 2009: News article by Kellyn Betts, Discontinued pajama flame retardant detected in baby products and house dust, discusses our new paper on TDCPP (chlorinated tris).

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18 August 2009: News article by Kellyn Betts, Discontinued pajama flame retardant detected in baby products and house dust discusses our new paper on TDCPP (chlorinated tris).

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18 August 2009: News article by Kellyn Betts, Discontinued pajama flame retardant detected in baby products and house dust, discusses our new paper on TDCPP (chlorinated tris).

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18 August 2009: News article by Kellyn Betts, Discontinued pajama flame retardant detected in baby products and house dust discusses our new paper on TDCPP (chlorinated tris).

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17 July 2009: News article in Wired about our new study on diet as a source of exposure to PBDEs.

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17 July 2009: News article in Wired about our new paper on diet as a source of exposure to PBDEs.

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17 July 2009: News article in Wired about our new study on diet as a source of exposure to PBDEs.

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18 March 2009: News article by Kellyn Betts, CSI-style tools offer clues about flame retardants in dust discusses our new paper on the use of scanning electron microscopes and other "CSI" tools to investigate PBDEs in dust.

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18 February 2009: It is often said that biomonitoring studies can discourage breast feeding, but little research has been done on how participants in such studies actually feel. Read our new paper.

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18 February 2009: It is often said that biomonitoring studies can discourage breast feeding, but little research has been done on how participants in such studies actually feel. To find out what we discovered, read our new paper.

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18 February 2009: It is often said that biomonitoring studies can discourage breast feeding, but little research has been done on how participants in such studies actually feel. Read our new paper.

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. How do people feel about participating in a biomonitoring study? Red our new paper.

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. How do people feel about participating in a biomonitoring study? Read our new paper.

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. How do people feel about participating in a biomonitoring study? Red our new paper.

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3 December 2008: News article by Kellyn Betts in ES&T discusses decabromodiphenyl ethane (DBDPE), another new flame retardant we found in house dust.

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3 December 2008: A news article by Kellyn Betts in ES&T discusses decabromodiphenyl ethane (DBDPE), another new flame retardant we found in house dust.

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3 December 2008: News article by Kellyn Betts in ES&T discusses decabromodiphenyl ethane (DBDPE), another new flame retardant we found in house dust.

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13 October 2008: Press coverage of our time-space analysis of breast cancer on Cape Cod.

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22 September 2008: Our multilevel analysis of breast cancer was featured in a National institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) press release on spatial epidemiology

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22 September 2008: Our multilevel analysis of breast cancer was featured in a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) press release on spatial epidemiology

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22 September 2008: Our multilevel analysis of breast cancer was featured in a National institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) press release on spatial epidemiology

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23 July 2008: New publication on new and alternative brominated flame retardants in dust, including components of Firemaster 550, the replacement for penta. For more information, look here.

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23 July 2008: New publication on new and alternative brominated flame retardants in dust, including components of Firemaster 550, a replacement for penta. For more information, look here.

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23 July 2008: New publication on new and alternative brominated flame retardants in dust, including components of Firemaster 550, the replacement for penta.

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23 July 2008: New publication on new and alternative brominated flame retardants in dust, including components of Firemaster 550, the replacement for penta. For more information, look here.

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13 August 2008: New publication on time-space clustering of breast cancer on Cape Cod, including a cool animation.

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23 July 2008: New publication on new and alternative brominated flame retardants in dust, including components of Firemaster 550, the replacement for penta.

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July 2008: Our PBDE work was featured in the Summer 2008 edition of Bostonia magazine

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20 May 2008: Doctoral student Greg Howard defends his dissertation on chemical mixtures.

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1 May 2008: Work by our PBDE group heavily featured in a news story in Environmental Health Perspectives.
1 May 2008: Doctoral student Lisa Gallagher defends her dissertation on the use of GIS in exposure assessment.

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18 April 2008: Our PBDE work featured on Nature Network Boston.

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25 April 2008: New publication on multilevel modeling of breast cancer. See publications section.
27 March 2008: Three new papers on exposure to PBDEs are in press: on PBDEs in handwipes, measuring PBDEs in dust, linking PBDEs in dust to household products via XRF. See publications section.

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25 April 2008: New publication on multilevel modeling of breast cancer. See publications.
27 March 2008: Three new papers on exposure to PBDEs are in press: on PBDEs in handwipes, measuring PBDEs in dust, linking PBDEs in dust to household products via XRF. See publications.

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25 April 2008: New publication on multilevel modeling of breast cancer. See publications section.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and Principal Investigator of Project 2 in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and Principal Investigator of Project 2 in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program.

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27 March 2008: Three new papers on exposure to PBDEs are in press: on PBDEs in handwipes, measuring PBDEs in dust, linking PBDEs in dust to household products via XRF. See publications section.

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6 March 2008: Paper on PBDEs by doctoral student Nerissa Wu one of the most cited papers in ES&T in 2007.

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local public health history). I have a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with include: The Senses Bureau, University of California San Diego; Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York.

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local public health history). I have a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with include: The Senses Bureau, University of California San Diego; Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York.

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4 December 2007: Doctoral student Greg Howard presents at the Superfund Basic Research Program annual meeting.

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27 April 2007: Doctoral student Joseph Allen wins award at 'BFR 2007''

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11 December 2006: Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring

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Harry Potter and chemical interactions
5 July 2007: New paper on ecologic bias
21 June 2007: Doctoral student Greg Howard wins a best poster award at Society for Epidemiology Research
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My department, Environmental Health, offers both doctoral and masters degrees.

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My department, Environmental Health, offers both doctoral and masters degrees. We have a training grant in environmental epidemiology.

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My department, Environmental Health, offers both doctoral and masters degrees.
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My department, environmental health, offers both doctoral and masters degrees. We have a training grant in environmental epidemiology.

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My department, Environmental Health, offers both doctoral and masters degrees. We have a training grant in environmental epidemiology.

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For prospective students My department, environmental health, offers both doctoral and masters degrees. We have a training grant in environmental epidemiology.

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My research interests include:

Methodological aspects of environmental epidemiology, particularly issues of spatial epidemiology: disease mapping and clusters, ecologic bias, and the use of combinations of individual- and group-level data.
Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).
Interactions of chemicals.
The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring
Ever heard of Dioxin Embalming Fluid or the California Waters of Life? Read about them and other bits of public health history.
Other research interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health and environmental health aspects of obesity.

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My research interests include:

Methodological aspects of environmental epidemiology, particularly issues of spatial epidemiology: disease mapping and clusters, ecologic bias, and the use of combinations of individual- and group-level data.
Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).
Interactions of chemicals.
The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring
Ever heard of Dioxin Embalming Fluid or the California Waters of Life? Read about them and other bits of public health history.
Other research interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health and environmental health aspects of obesity.

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Interactions of chemicals. I collaborate with Dr. Jennifer Schlezinger, Dr. Mark Hahn, and doctoral student Greg Howard on the biologic effects of chemical mixtures.

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Interactions of chemicals.

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Environmental epidemiology of expsoure to tetrachloroethylene exposure (in collaboration with Dr. Ann Aschengrau and the BU Superfund Basic Research Program).

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Environmental epidemiology of expsoure to tetrachloroethylene exposure (in collaboration with Dr. Ann Aschengrau and the BU Superfund Basic Research Program).

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17 January 2007: News story in ES&T "The risk of PBDEs in dust"

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11 June 2007: Doctoral student Jessica Nelson awarded Switzer Environmental Fellowship
24 May 2007: What do PBDEs have to do with the the cartoon character Pigpen?
27 April 2007: Doctoral student Joseph Allen wins award at BFR 2007
17 January 2007: News story in ��ES&T�� "The risk of PBDEs in dust"

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and Principal Investigator of Project 2 in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program.

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Tom Webster outside the John Snow Pub--a pilgrimage site for environmental epidemiologists--on Broadwick Street in Soho, London on a rainy day. The original pump was located next to the pub in the background on what was then called Broad Street. If you drop by, make sure you sign the visitor's book! To read more about Dr. John Snow, look here. His cholera map of Soho is here. To learn more about the John Snow Society, look here.

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Tom Webster outside the John Snow Pub--a pilgrimage site for environmental epidemiologists--on Broadwick Street in Soho, London on a rainy day. The original pump was located next to the pub in the background on what was then called Broad Street. Note that the replica pump has no handle. If you visit the pub, make sure you sign the visitor's book! To read more about Dr. John Snow, look here. His cholera map of Soho is here. To learn more about the John Snow Society, look here.

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local public health history). I have a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with include: The Senses Bureau, University of California San Diego; Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York.

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local public health history). I have a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with include: The Senses Bureau, University of California San Diego; Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York.

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Interactions of chemicals. I collaborate with Dr. Jennifer Schlezinger, Dr. Mark Hahn, and doctoral student Greg Howard on the biologic effects of chemical mixtures.

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local public health history). I have a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with include: The Senses Bureau, University of California San Diego; Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York.

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The Senses Bureau, University of California San Diego
Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local color). I have a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with include: The Senses Bureau, University of California San Diego; Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York.

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local color). I have a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with:

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA (Look here for a bit of local color]]. I have a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with:

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA. I have a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with:

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I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA. I have a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health. A couple other places I've been associated with:

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Background I grew up in the La Mesa/Spring Valley area east of San Diego, CA. I have a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a D.Sc. from Boston University School of Public Health.

A couple other places I've been associated with:

The Senses Bureau, University of California San Diego
Center for the biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York

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Interactions of chemicals. I collaborate with Dr. Jennifer Schlezinger, Dr. Mark Hahn, and doctoral student Greg Howard on the biologic effects of chemical mixtures.

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Other research interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health and environmental health aspects of obesity.

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Methodological aspects of environmental epidemiology, particularly issues of spatial epidemiology: disease mapping and clusters, ecologic bias, and the use of combinations of individual- and group-level data.
Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).

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Methodological aspects of environmental epidemiology, particularly issues of spatial epidemiology: disease mapping and clusters, ecologic bias, and the use of combinations of individual- and group-level data.
Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring
Ever heard of Dioxin Embalming Fluid or the California Waters of Life? Read about them and other bits of public health history.

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring
Ever heard of Dioxin Embalming Fluid or the California Waters of Life? Read about them and other bits of public health history.

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EH820 Mathematical Modeling for Public Health and Medicine (Fall) (Fall; with Ozonoff) - Mathematical modeling of biological processes and population dynamics is an important tool in pure and applied research. This course teaches the basic concepts of deterministic modeling, with emphasis on problems of public health and medical importance such as models of physiologic processes (e.g., Michaelis-Menten kinetics), population models, and models of disease spread and contagion. Mathematical prerequisites are kept to a minimum, with the necessary linear algebra (matrices, eigenvectors, eigenvalues), qualitative methods of ordinary differential equations (stability, phase-plane methods), and difference equations being introduced as needed.

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EH820 Mathematical Modeling for Public Health and Medicine (Fall; with Ozonoff) - Mathematical modeling of biological processes and population dynamics is an important tool in pure and applied research. This course teaches the basic concepts of deterministic modeling, with emphasis on problems of public health and medical importance such as models of physiologic processes (e.g., Michaelis-Menten kinetics), population models, and models of disease spread and contagion. Mathematical prerequisites are kept to a minimum, with the necessary linear algebra (matrices, eigenvectors, eigenvalues), qualitative methods of ordinary differential equations (stability, phase-plane methods), and difference equations being introduced as needed.

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EH820 Mathematical Modeling for Public Health and Medicine (Fall) (Fall; with Ozonoff) - Mathematical modeling of biological processes and population dynamics is an important tool in pure and applied research. This course teaches the basic concepts of deterministic modeling, with emphasis on problems of public health and medical importance such as models of physiologic processes (e.g., Michaelis-Menten kinetics), population models, and models of disease spread and contagion. Mathematical prerequisites are kept to a minimum, with the necessary linear algebra (matrices, eigenvectors, eigenvalues), qualitative methods of ordinary differential equations (stability, phase-plane methods), and difference equations being introduced as needed.

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"EH780 Great Calamities and their Consequences in Public Health'' (Spring)
EH840 Intermediate Toxicology (Fall); with Heiger-Bernays) - This advanced-level course is an extension in detail and content of EH768. The course uses a case study approach to teach the molecular mechanisms by which compounds exert their toxicity in addition to dose-response analyses that are applicable to regulatory toxicology. The course emphasizes toxicogenetic differences within the human population. Experimental methods from which toxicological data are generated are presented and discussed for each of the case studies. Major topics include cellular mechanisms of action of toxicants as they relate to oncogenesis, neurotoxicology, and immunotoxicology, and the use of these data in regulatory toxicology.

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[[Intermediate Toxicology|EH840 Intermediate Toxicology (Fall)]; with Heiger-Bernays) - This advanced-level course is an extension in detail and content of EH768. The course uses a case study approach to teach the molecular mechanisms by which compounds exert their toxicity in addition to dose-response analyses that are applicable to regulatory toxicology. The course emphasizes toxicogenetic differences within the human population. Experimental methods from which toxicological data are generated are presented and discussed for each of the case studies. Major topics include cellular mechanisms of action of toxicants as they relate to oncogenesis, neurotoxicology, and immunotoxicology, and the use of these data in regulatory toxicology.

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EH840 Intermediate Toxicology (Fall); with Heiger-Bernays) - This advanced-level course is an extension in detail and content of EH768. The course uses a case study approach to teach the molecular mechanisms by which compounds exert their toxicity in addition to dose-response analyses that are applicable to regulatory toxicology. The course emphasizes toxicogenetic differences within the human population. Experimental methods from which toxicological data are generated are presented and discussed for each of the case studies. Major topics include cellular mechanisms of action of toxicants as they relate to oncogenesis, neurotoxicology, and immunotoxicology, and the use of these data in regulatory toxicology.

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"EH780 Great Calamities and their Consequences in Public Health'' (Spring)
[[Intermediate Toxicology|EH840 Intermediate Toxicology (Fall)]; with Heiger-Bernays) - This advanced-level course is an extension in detail and content of EH768. The course uses a case study approach to teach the molecular mechanisms by which compounds exert their toxicity in addition to dose-response analyses that are applicable to regulatory toxicology. The course emphasizes toxicogenetic differences within the human population. Experimental methods from which toxicological data are generated are presented and discussed for each of the case studies. Major topics include cellular mechanisms of action of toxicants as they relate to oncogenesis, neurotoxicology, and immunotoxicology, and the use of these data in regulatory toxicology.

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EH840 Intermediate Toxicology (Fall; with Heiger-Bernays) - This advanced-level course is an extension in detail and content of EH768. The course uses a case study approach to teach the molecular mechanisms by which compounds exert their toxicity in addition to dose-response analyses that are applicable to regulatory toxicology. The course emphasizes toxicogenetic differences within the human population. Experimental methods from which toxicological data are generated are presented and discussed for each of the case studies. Major topics include cellular mechanisms of action of toxicants as they relate to oncogenesis, neurotoxicology, and immunotoxicology, and the use of these data in regulatory toxicology.

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EH780 Great Calamities and their Consequences in Public Health (Spring)(Spring; with Clapp) - Current public health practice in the United States evolved in response to public health calamities. Epidemics of infectious disease, mass poisonings, and industrial disasters have served as catalysts for new regulations and institutions of public health. For example, the sulfanilamide tragedy of 1937 was the catalyst for the current drug approval process. In addition, public and private responses to calamities have fueled the development of scientific knowledge and epidemiologic methods. For example, John Snow's investigation of the London cholera outbreak of 1854 demonstrated the utility of observational epidemiology. This course acquaints students with those calamities of primarily the past 200 years that were most consequential for public health practice. The emphasis is on each calamity's impact on knowledge of disease causation and control and on the development of public health institutions and regulations.

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EH780 Great Calamities and their Consequences in Public Health (Spring)(Spring; with Clapp) - Current public health practice in the United States evolved in response to public health calamities. Epidemics of infectious disease, mass poisonings, and industrial disasters have served as catalysts for new regulations and institutions of public health. For example, the sulfanilamide tragedy of 1937 was the catalyst for the current drug approval process. In addition, public and private responses to calamities have fueled the development of scientific knowledge and epidemiologic methods. For example, John Snow's investigation of the London cholera outbreak of 1854 demonstrated the utility of observational epidemiology. This course acquaints students with those calamities of primarily the past 200 years that were most consequential for public health practice. The emphasis is on each calamity's impact on knowledge of disease causation and control and on the development of public health institutions and regulations.

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Public health history. Read the bizarre stories of Dioxin Embalming Fluid, the North Boston, NY typhoid epidemic of 1842, or the California Waters of Life.

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Some recent publications:

Wu N, Herrmann T, Paepke O, Tickner J, Hale R, Harvey E, La Guardia M, McClean MD, Webster TF. Human exposure to PBDEs: Associations of PBDE body burdens with food consumption and house dust concentrations. Environ Sci Technol (in press).
McClean MD and Webster TF. Biomarkers. In: Schecter, A (Ed.) Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventative Medicine. Forthcoming.
Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. Personal and indoor air exposure to PBDEs in US urban residences. Organohalogen Compounds 2006; 68. The full text is freely available here.
Webster TF. Pharmacokinetics of POPs: Simple models with different implications for halflives and steady state levels. Organohalogen Compounds 2006; 68. The full text is freely available here.
Webster T, Vieira V; Weinberg J; Aschengrau A. Method for mapping population-based case-control studies using Generalized Additive Models. International Journal of Health Geographics 2006, 5:26 (9�June�2006).The full text is freely available here.
National Research Council of the National Academies. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA�s Standards. Prepared by the Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water: Doull J (Chair), Boekelheide K, Farishian B, Isaacson R, Klotz J, Kumar J, Limeback F, Poole C, Puzas J, Reed, N-M, Thiessen K, Webster T. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 2006. Examine or order it here.
Ozonoff A, Webster T, Vieira V, Weinberg J, Ozonoff D, Aschengrau A. Cluster detection methods applied to the Upper Cape Cod cancer data. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2005, 4:19 (15 September 2005). The full text is freely available here.
Vieira V, Webster T, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A, Ozonoff D. Spatial analysis of lung, colorectal, and breast cancer on Cape Cod: An application of generalized additive models to case-control data. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2005, 4:11 (14 June 2005). The full text is freely available here.
Wu N, Webster T, Herrmann T, Paepke O, Tickner J, Hale R, Harvey E, La Guardia M, Jacobs E. Associations of PBDE Levels in Breast Milk with Diet and Indoor Dust Concentrations. Organohalogen Compounds 2005; 67: 654-657. The full text is freely available here.
Webster T, Vieira V, Schecter A. Estimating Exposure to PBDE-47 via Air, Food and Dust Using Monte Carlo Methods. Organohalogen Compounds 2005; 67: 505-8.The full text is freely available here.
Schlezinger JJ, Howard GJ, Hurst CH, Emberley JK, Waxman DJ, Webster T, Sherr DH. Environmental and endogenous peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma agonists induce bone marrow B cell growth arrest and apoptosis: interactions between mono(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, 9-cis-retinoic acid, and 15-deoxy-Delta12,14-prostaglandin J2. J Immunol 2004; 173(5): 3165-77. The full text is freely available here
Webster T, Vieira V, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A. Spatial Analysis of Case-Control Data Using Generalized Additive Models. In Jarup, L (Ed.) Proceedings from EUROHEIS/SAHSU Conference 2003: An International Conference on Health and the Environment. Small Areas Health Statistics Unit, Imperial College London, 2003. The full text is freely available here.
Webster T, Commoner B. Overview: The Dioxin Debate. In: A. Schecter and T. Gasiewicz (Eds.) Dioxins and Health. 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Order it here.
Webster T and Sherr D. Types of AhREs and their Implications. Organohalogen Compounds 2003; 65: 106-109. The full text is freely available here.
Webster, T. Commentary: Does the spectre of ecologic bias haunt epidemiology? International Journal of Epidemiology 2002; 31:161-162. The full text is freely available here.

Recent conference presentations:

Webster TF. Health effects of fluoride on bone: The NRC Report. Presented at the APHA 134th Annual Meeting and Exposition, November 4-8, 2006, Boston, MA.
Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. PBDE levels in indoor air and dust collected US urban residences. Presented at ISEE/ISEA, 2-6 September 2006, Paris, France.
Webster T, Weinberg J, Vieira V, Hoffman K, Aschengrau A. The impact of community and individual-level socioeconomic status on the risk of breast cancer: Multi-level modeling in Massachusetts. Presented at ISEE/ISEA, 2-6 September 2006, Paris, France.
Janulewicz PA, White RF, Winter M, Weinberg J, Gallagher L, Vieira V, Webster T, Aschengrau A. Learning disabilities as an outcome following prenatal exposure to tetrachoroethylene-contaminated drinking water. Presented at ISEE/ISEA, 2-6 September 2006, Paris, France.
Gallagher L, Ozonoff D, Webster T, Vieira V, Aschengrau A. Use of a water distribution model to assess exposure to tetachloroethylene-contaminated drinking water. Presented at ISEE/ISEA, 2-6 September 2006, Paris, France.
Vieira V, Webster T, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A. Temporal-spatial analysis of breast cancer risk on upper Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. Presented at ISEE/ISEA, 2-6 September 2006, Paris, France.
Nelson JW, Howard GH, Webster TF, Ozonoff DM. Open science in environmental health research. Presented at ISEE/ISEA, 2-6 September 2006, Paris, France.
Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. Personal air and dust exposure to PBDEs in US urban residences. Presented at Dioxin 2006, Oslo, Norway. August.
Webster TF. Pharmacokinetics of POPs: Simple models with different implications for halflives and steady state levels. Presented at Dioxin 2006, Oslo, Norway. August.
Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. Personal and indoor air exposure to PBDEs in US urban residences. Presented a BFR 2006: The Eighth Annual Workshop on Brominated Flame Retardants in the Environment, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. June 27-29, 2006.
Webster T, Weinberg J, Vieira V, Hoffman K, Aschengrau A. The Impact of Community and Individual-Level Socioeconomic Status on the Risk of Breast Cancer: Multi-level Modeling among Residents of Cape Cod, MA (USA). Presented at Spatial Epidemiology 2006, London.
Webster T. Cross-level bias in partially ecologic studies. Presented at Spatial Epidemiology 2006, London.
Vieira V, Webster T, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A. Temporal-Spatial Analysis of Breast Cancer on Upper Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Presented at Spatial Epidemiology 2006, London.

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. A current project investigates body burdens of and exposure routes to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a common fire retardant.

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Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. I'm currently investigating human exposure to brominated fire retardants (BFRs), particularly polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).

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EH780 Great Calamities and their Consequences in Public Health (Spring; with Clapp) - Current public health practice in the United States evolved in response to public health calamities. Epidemics of infectious disease, mass poisonings, and industrial disasters have served as catalysts for new regulations and institutions of public health. For example, the sulfanilamide tragedy of 1937 was the catalyst for the current drug approval process. In addition, public and private responses to calamities have fueled the development of scientific knowledge and epidemiologi methods. For example, John Snow's investigation of the London cholera outbreak of 1854 demonstrated the utility of observational epidemiology. This course acquaints students with those calamities of primarily the past 200 years that were most consequential for public health practice. The emphasis is on each calamity's impact on knowledge of disease causation and control and on the development of public health institutions and regulations.

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EH780 Great Calamities and their Consequences in Public Health (Spring; with Clapp) - Current public health practice in the United States evolved in response to public health calamities. Epidemics of infectious disease, mass poisonings, and industrial disasters have served as catalysts for new regulations and institutions of public health. For example, the sulfanilamide tragedy of 1937 was the catalyst for the current drug approval process. In addition, public and private responses to calamities have fueled the development of scientific knowledge and epidemiologic methods. For example, John Snow's investigation of the London cholera outbreak of 1854 demonstrated the utility of observational epidemiology. This course acquaints students with those calamities of primarily the past 200 years that were most consequential for public health practice. The emphasis is on each calamity's impact on knowledge of disease causation and control and on the development of public health institutions and regulations.

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Community views of potential environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring

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The community context of environmental hazards. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring

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Interactions of chemicals. I collaborate with Dr. Jennifer Schlezinger, Dr. Mark Hahn, and doctoral student Greg Howard on the biologic effects of complex chemical mixtures.

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Interactions of chemicals. I collaborate with Dr. Jennifer Schlezinger, Dr. Mark Hahn, and doctoral student Greg Howard on the biologic effects of chemical mixtures.

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Public health history. Read the bizarre story of Dioxin Embalming Fluid, the North Boston, NY typhoid epidemic of 1842, or the California Waters of Life.

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Public health history. Read the bizarre story of Dioxin Embalming Fluid, the North Boston, NY typhoid epidemic of 1842, or the California Waters of Life.

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Vieira V, Webster T, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A. Temporal-Spatial Analysis of Breast Cancer on Upper Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Presented at Spatial Epidemiology 2006, London.

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EH840 Intermediate Toxicology (Fall; with Heiger-Bernays) - This advanced-level course is an extension in detail and content of EH768. The course uses a case study approach to teach the molecular mechanisms by which compounds exert their toxicity in addition to dose-response analyses that are applicable to regulatory toxicology. The course emphasizes toxicogenetic differences within the human population. Experimental methods from which toxicological data are generated are presented and discussed for each of the case studies. Major topics include cellular mechanisms of action of toxicants as they relate to oncogenesis, neurotoxicology, and immunotoxicology, and the use of these data in regulatory toxicology.

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EH840 Intermediate Toxicology (Fall; with Heiger-Bernays) - This advanced-level course is an extension in detail and content of EH768. The course uses a case study approach to teach the molecular mechanisms by which compounds exert their toxicity in addition to dose-response analyses that are applicable to regulatory toxicology. The course emphasizes toxicogenetic differences within the human population. Experimental methods from which toxicological data are generated are presented and discussed for each of the case studies. Major topics include cellular mechanisms of action of toxicants as they relate to oncogenesis, neurotoxicology, and immunotoxicology, and the use of these data in regulatory toxicology.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program.

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Other research interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health and environmental health aspects of obesity.

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Other research interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health and environmental health aspects of obesity.

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Webster, T. Commentary: Does the spectre of ecologic bias haunt epidemiology? International Journal of Epidemiology 2002; 31:161-162. The full text is freely available here.

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Webster, T. Commentary: Does the spectre of ecologic bias haunt epidemiology? International Journal of Epidemiology 2002; 31:161-162. The full text is freely available here.

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Wu N, Herrmann T, Paepke O, Tickner J, Hale R, Harvey E, La Guardia M, McClean MD, Webster TF. Human exposure to PBDEs: Associations of PBDE body burdens with food consumption and house dust concentrations. Environ Sci Technol (in press).* McClean MD and Webster TF. Biomarkers. In: Schecter, A (Ed.) Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventative Medicine. Forthcoming.

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Wu N, Herrmann T, Paepke O, Tickner J, Hale R, Harvey E, La Guardia M, McClean MD, Webster TF. Human exposure to PBDEs: Associations of PBDE body burdens with food consumption and house dust concentrations. Environ Sci Technol (in press).
McClean MD and Webster TF. Biomarkers. In: Schecter, A (Ed.) Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventative Medicine. Forthcoming.

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McClean MD and Webster TF. Biomarkers. In: Schecter, A (Ed.) Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventative Medicine. Forthcoming.

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Wu N, Herrmann T, Paepke O, Tickner J, Hale R, Harvey E, La Guardia M, McClean MD, Webster TF. Human exposure to PBDEs: Associations of PBDE body burdens with food consumption and house dust concentrations. Environ Sci Technol (in press).* McClean MD and Webster TF. Biomarkers. In: Schecter, A (Ed.) Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventative Medicine. Forthcoming.

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Webster TF. Health effects of fluoride on bone: The NRC Report. Presented at the APHA 134th Annual Meeting and Exposition, November 4-8, 2006, Boston, MA.

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Tom Webster outside the John Snow Pub--a pilgrimage site for environmental epidemiologists--on Broadwick Street in Soho, London on a rainy day. The original pump was located next to the pub in the background on what was then called Broad Street. If you drop by, make sure you sign the visitor's book! To read more about Dr. John Snow, look here. His cholera map of Soho is here. To learn more about the John Snow Society, look here.

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Tom Webster outside the John Snow Pub--a pilgrimage site for environmental epidemiologists--on Broadwick Street in Soho, London on a rainy day. The original pump was located next to the pub in the background on what was then called Broad Street. If you drop by, make sure you sign the visitor's book! To read more about Dr. John Snow, look here. His cholera map of Soho is here. To learn more about the John Snow Society, look here.

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Tom Webster outside the John Snow Pub--a pilgrimage site for environmental epidemiologists--on Broadwick Street in Soho, London on a rainy day. The original pump was located next to the pub in the background on what was then called Broad Street. If you drop by, make sure you sign the visitor's book! To read more about Dr. John Snow, look here. His cholera map of Soho is here. To learn more about the John Snow Society, look here.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program and co-Director of CIREEH's Integrative Human Sciences Facility Core.

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Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. Personal and indoor air exposure to PBDEs in US urban residences. "Organohalogen Compounds" 2006; 68. The full text is freely available here.
Webster TF. Pharmacokinetics of POPs: Simple models with different implications for halflives and steady state levels. "Organohalogen Compounds" 2006; 68. The full text is freely available here.

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Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. Personal and indoor air exposure to PBDEs in US urban residences. Organohalogen Compounds 2006; 68. The full text is freely available here.
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Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. Personal and indoor air exposure to PBDEs in US urban residences. Organohalogen Compounds 2006; 68. The full text is freely available here.
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Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. Personal and indoor air exposure to PBDEs in US urban residences. "Organohalogen Compounds" 2006; 68. The full text is freely available here.
Webster TF. Pharmacokinetics of POPs: Simple models with different implications for halflives and steady state levels. "Organohalogen Compounds" 2006; 68. The full text is freely available here.

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Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. PBDE levels in indoor air and dust collected US urban residences. Presented at ISEE/ISEA, 2-6 September 2006, Paris, France.
Webster T, Weinberg J, Vieira V, Hoffman K, Aschengrau A. The impact of community and individual-level socioeconomic status on the risk of breast cancer: Multi-level modeling in Massachusetts. Presented at ISEE/ISEA, 2-6 September 2006, Paris, France.
Janulewicz PA, White RF, Winter M, Weinberg J, Gallagher L, Vieira V, Webster T, Aschengrau A. Learning disabilities as an outcome following prenatal exposure to tetrachoroethylene-contaminated drinking water. Presented at ISEE/ISEA, 2-6 September 2006, Paris, France.
Gallagher L, Ozonoff D, Webster T, Vieira V, Aschengrau A. Use of a water distribution model to assess exposure to tetachloroethylene-contaminated drinking water. Presented at ISEE/ISEA, 2-6 September 2006, Paris, France.
Vieira V, Webster T, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A. Temporal-spatial analysis of breast cancer risk on upper Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. Presented at ISEE/ISEA, 2-6 September 2006, Paris, France.
Nelson JW, Howard GH, Webster TF, Ozonoff DM. Open science in environmental health research. Presented at ISEE/ISEA, 2-6 September 2006, Paris, France.
Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. Personal air and dust exposure to PBDEs in US urban residences. Presented at Dioxin 2006, Oslo, Norway. August.
Webster TF. Pharmacokinetics of POPs: Simple models with different implications for halflives and steady state levels. Presented at Dioxin 2006, Oslo, Norway. August.
Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. Personal and indoor air exposure to PBDEs in US urban residences. Presented a BFR 2006: The Eighth Annual Workshop on Brominated Flame Retardants in the Environment, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. June 27-29, 2006.

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Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. Personal and indoor air exposure to PBDEs in US urban residences. Organohalogen Compounds 2006; 68. The full text is freely available here.

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Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. Personal and indoor air exposure to PBDEs in US urban residences. Organohalogen Compounds 2006; 68. The full text is freely available here.

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Allen JG, McClean MD, Stapleton HM, Nelson JW, Sanchez G, Fraser AJ, Webster TF. Personal and indoor air exposure to PBDEs in US urban residences. Organohalogen Compounds 2006; 68. The full text is freely available here ?.
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Methodological aspects of environmental epidemiology, particularly issues of spatial epidemiology: disease mapping and clusters, ecologic bias, and the use of combinations of individual- and group-level data.
Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. A current project investigates body burdens of and exposure routes to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a common fire retardant.

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Methodological aspects of environmental epidemiology, particularly issues of spatial epidemiology: disease mapping and clusters, ecologic bias, and the use of combinations of individual- and group-level data.
Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. A current project investigates body burdens of and exposure routes to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a common fire retardant.

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Public health history. Read the bizarre story of Dioxin Embalming Fluid or the North Boston, NY typhoid epidemic of 1842.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program and co-Director of CIREEH's Integrative Human Sciences Facility Core.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program and co-Director of CIREEH's Integrative Human Sciences Facility Core.

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Webster T, Weinberg J, Vieira V, Hoffman K, Aschengrau A. The Impact of Community and Individual-Level Socioeconomic Status on the Risk of Breast Cancer: Multi-level Modeling among Residents of Cape Cod, MA (USA). Presented at Spacial Epidemiology 2006, London.
Webster T. Cross-level bias in partially ecologic studies. Presented at Spacial Epidemiology 2006, London.
Vieira V, Webster T, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A. Temporal-Spatial Analysis of Breast Cancer on Upeer Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Presented at Spacial Epidemiology 2006, London.

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Webster T, Weinberg J, Vieira V, Hoffman K, Aschengrau A. The Impact of Community and Individual-Level Socioeconomic Status on the Risk of Breast Cancer: Multi-level Modeling among Residents of Cape Cod, MA (USA). Presented at Spatial Epidemiology 2006, London.
Webster T. Cross-level bias in partially ecologic studies. Presented at Spatial Epidemiology 2006, London.
Vieira V, Webster T, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A. Temporal-Spatial Analysis of Breast Cancer on Upper Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Presented at Spatial Epidemiology 2006, London.

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Webster T, Vieira V; Weinberg J; Aschengrau A. Method for mapping population-based case-control studies using Generalized Additive Models. International Journal of Health Geographics [accepted for publication].

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Webster T, Vieira V; Weinberg J; Aschengrau A. Method for mapping population-based case-control studies using Generalized Additive Models. International Journal of Health Geographics 2006, 5:26 (9�June�2006).The full text is freely available here.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program and co-Director of CIREEH's Integrative Human Sciences Facility Core.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program and co-Director of CIREEH's Integrative Human Sciences Facility Core.

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Other research interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health and environmental health aspects of obesity.

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Other research interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health and environmental health aspects of obesity.

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Webster, T. Commentary: Does the spectre of ecologic bias haunt epidemiology? International Journal of Epidemiology 2002; 31:161-162. The full text is freely available here.

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Webster, T. Commentary: Does the spectre of ecologic bias haunt epidemiology? International Journal of Epidemiology 2002; 31:161-162. The full text is freely available here.

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Vieira V, Webster T, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A. Temporal-Spatial Analysis of Breast Cancer on Upeer Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Presented at Spacial Epidemiology 2006, London.

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Vieira V, Webster T, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A. Temporal-Spatial Analysis of Breast Cancer on Upeer Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Presented at Spacial Epidemiology 2006, London.

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EH840 Intermediate Toxicology (Fall; with Heiger-Bernays) - This advanced-level course is an extension in detail and content of EH768. The course uses a case study approach to teach the molecular mechanisms by which compounds exert their toxicity in addition to dose-response analyses that are applicable to regulatory toxicology. The course emphasizes toxicogenetic differences within the human population. Experimental methods from which toxicological data are generated are presented and discussed for each of the case studies. Major topics include cellular mechanisms of action of toxicants as they relate to oncogenesis, neurotoxicology, and immunotoxicology, and the use of these data in regulatory toxicology.

My official BU site: Tom Webster, D.Sc.

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EH840 Intermediate Toxicology (Fall; with Heiger-Bernays) - This advanced-level course is an extension in detail and content of EH768. The course uses a case study approach to teach the molecular mechanisms by which compounds exert their toxicity in addition to dose-response analyses that are applicable to regulatory toxicology. The course emphasizes toxicogenetic differences within the human population. Experimental methods from which toxicological data are generated are presented and discussed for each of the case studies. Major topics include cellular mechanisms of action of toxicants as they relate to oncogenesis, neurotoxicology, and immunotoxicology, and the use of these data in regulatory toxicology.

My official BU site: Tom Webster, D.Sc.

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Webster T, Vieira V, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A. Spatial Analysis of Case-Control Data Using Generalized Additive Models. In Jarup, L (Ed.) Proceedings from EUROHEIS/SAHSU Conference 2003: An International Conference on Health and the Environment. Small Areas Health Statistics Unit, Imperial College London, 2003.

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Webster T, Vieira V, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A. Spatial Analysis of Case-Control Data Using Generalized Additive Models. In Jarup, L (Ed.) Proceedings from EUROHEIS/SAHSU Conference 2003: An International Conference on Health and the Environment. Small Areas Health Statistics Unit, Imperial College London, 2003. The full text is freely available here.

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Webster T, Vieira V, Schecter A. Estimating Exposure to PBDE-47 via Air, Food and Dust Using Monte Carlo Methods. Organohalogen Compounds 2005; 67: 505-8.The full text is freely available here.

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Webster T, Vieira V, Schecter A. Estimating Exposure to PBDE-47 via Air, Food and Dust Using Monte Carlo Methods. Organohalogen Compounds 2005; 67: 505-8.The full text is freely available here.

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(:title Tom Webster:)

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Tom Webster outside the John Snow Pub--a pilgrimage site for environmental epidemiologists--on Broadwick Street in Soho, London on a rainy day. The original pump was located next to the pub on what was then called Broad Street. If you drop by, make sure you sign the visitor's book! To read more about Dr. John Snow, look here. His cholera map of Soho is here.

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Tom Webster outside the John Snow Pub--a pilgrimage site for environmental epidemiologists--on Broadwick Street in Soho, London on a rainy day. The original pump was located next to the pub in the background on what was then called Broad Street. If you drop by, make sure you sign the visitor's book! To read more about Dr. John Snow, look here. His cholera map of Soho is here.

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Public health history. Read the bizarre story of Dioxin Embalming Fluid.

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Public health history. Read the bizarre story of Dioxin Embalming Fluid or the North Boston, NY typhoid epidemic of 1842.

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Public health history. Read the bizarre story of Dioxin Emblaming Fluid.

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Public health history. Read the bizarre story of Dioxin Embalming Fluid.

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Public health history. Read the bizarre story of Dioxin Emblaming Fluid.

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Tom Webster outside the John Snow Pub--a pilgrimage site for environmental epidemiologists--on Broadwick Street in Soho, London on a rainy day. The original pump was located next to the pub on what was then called Broad Street. If you visit, make sure you sign the visitor's book! To read more about Dr. John Snow, look here. His cholera map of Soho is here.

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Tom Webster outside the John Snow Pub--a pilgrimage site for environmental epidemiologists--on Broadwick Street in Soho, London on a rainy day. The original pump was located next to the pub on what was then called Broad Street. If you drop by, make sure you sign the visitor's book! To read more about Dr. John Snow, look here. His cholera map of Soho is here.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program and co-Director of CIREEH's Integrative Human Sciences Facility Core.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program and co-Director of CIREEH's Integrative Human Sciences Facility Core.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program and co-Director of CIREEH's Integrative Human Sciences Facility Core.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program and co-Director of CIREEH's Integrative Human Sciences Facility Core.

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!EH780 Great Calamities and their Consequences in Public Health (Spring; with Clapp) - Current public health practice in the United States evolved in response to public health calamities. Epidemics of infectious disease, mass poisonings, and industrial disasters have served as catalysts for new regulations and institutions of public health. For example, the sulfanilamide tragedy of 1937 was the catalyst for the current drug approval process. In addition, public and private responses to calamities have fueled the development of scientific knowledge and epidemiologi methods. For example, John Snow's investigation of the London cholera outbreak of 1854 demonstrated the utility of observational epidemiology. This course acquaints students with those calamities of primarily the past 200 years that were most consequential for public health practice. The emphasis is on each calamity's impact on knowledge of disease causation and control and on the development of public health institutions and regulations.
!EH820 Mathematical Modeling for Public Health and Medicine (Fall; with Ozonoff) - Mathematical modeling of biological processes and population dynamics is an important tool in pure and applied research. This course teaches the basic concepts of deterministic modeling, with emphasis on problems of public health and medical importance such as models of physiologic processes (e.g., Michaelis-Menten kinetics), population models, and models of disease spread and contagion. Mathematical prerequisites are kept to a minimum, with the necessary linear algebra (matrices, eigenvectors, eigenvalues), qualitative methods of ordinary differential equations (stability, phase-plane methods), and difference equations being introduced as needed.
!EH840 Intermediate Toxicology (Fall; with Heiger-Bernays) - This advanced-level course is an extension in detail and content of EH768. The course uses a case study approach to teach the molecular mechanisms by which compounds exert their toxicity in addition to dose-response analyses that are applicable to regulatory toxicology. The course emphasizes toxicogenetic differences within the human population. Experimental methods from which toxicological data are generated are presented and discussed for each of the case studies. Major topics include cellular mechanisms of action of toxicants as they relate to oncogenesis, neurotoxicology, and immunotoxicology, and the use of these data in regulatory toxicology.

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EH780 Great Calamities and their Consequences in Public Health (Spring; with Clapp) - Current public health practice in the United States evolved in response to public health calamities. Epidemics of infectious disease, mass poisonings, and industrial disasters have served as catalysts for new regulations and institutions of public health. For example, the sulfanilamide tragedy of 1937 was the catalyst for the current drug approval process. In addition, public and private responses to calamities have fueled the development of scientific knowledge and epidemiologi methods. For example, John Snow's investigation of the London cholera outbreak of 1854 demonstrated the utility of observational epidemiology. This course acquaints students with those calamities of primarily the past 200 years that were most consequential for public health practice. The emphasis is on each calamity's impact on knowledge of disease causation and control and on the development of public health institutions and regulations.
EH820 Mathematical Modeling for Public Health and Medicine (Fall; with Ozonoff) - Mathematical modeling of biological processes and population dynamics is an important tool in pure and applied research. This course teaches the basic concepts of deterministic modeling, with emphasis on problems of public health and medical importance such as models of physiologic processes (e.g., Michaelis-Menten kinetics), population models, and models of disease spread and contagion. Mathematical prerequisites are kept to a minimum, with the necessary linear algebra (matrices, eigenvectors, eigenvalues), qualitative methods of ordinary differential equations (stability, phase-plane methods), and difference equations being introduced as needed.
EH840 Intermediate Toxicology (Fall; with Heiger-Bernays) - This advanced-level course is an extension in detail and content of EH768. The course uses a case study approach to teach the molecular mechanisms by which compounds exert their toxicity in addition to dose-response analyses that are applicable to regulatory toxicology. The course emphasizes toxicogenetic differences within the human population. Experimental methods from which toxicological data are generated are presented and discussed for each of the case studies. Major topics include cellular mechanisms of action of toxicants as they relate to oncogenesis, neurotoxicology, and immunotoxicology, and the use of these data in regulatory toxicology.

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!EH780 Great Calamities and their Consequences in Public Health (Spring; with Clapp) - Current public health practice in the United States evolved in response to public health calamities. Epidemics of infectious disease, mass poisonings, and industrial disasters have served as catalysts for new regulations and institutions of public health. For example, the sulfanilamide tragedy of 1937 was the catalyst for the current drug approval process. In addition, public and private responses to calamities have fueled the development of scientific knowledge and epidemiologi methods. For example, John Snow's investigation of the London cholera outbreak of 1854 demonstrated the utility of observational epidemiology. This course acquaints students with those calamities of primarily the past 200 years that were most consequential for public health practice. The emphasis is on each calamity's impact on knowledge of disease causation and control and on the development of public health institutions and regulations.
!EH820 Mathematical Modeling for Public Health and Medicine (Fall; with Ozonoff) - Mathematical modeling of biological processes and population dynamics is an important tool in pure and applied research. This course teaches the basic concepts of deterministic modeling, with emphasis on problems of public health and medical importance such as models of physiologic processes (e.g., Michaelis-Menten kinetics), population models, and models of disease spread and contagion. Mathematical prerequisites are kept to a minimum, with the necessary linear algebra (matrices, eigenvectors, eigenvalues), qualitative methods of ordinary differential equations (stability, phase-plane methods), and difference equations being introduced as needed.
!EH840 Intermediate Toxicology (Fall; with Heiger-Bernays) - This advanced-level course is an extension in detail and content of EH768. The course uses a case study approach to teach the molecular mechanisms by which compounds exert their toxicity in addition to dose-response analyses that are applicable to regulatory toxicology. The course emphasizes toxicogenetic differences within the human population. Experimental methods from which toxicological data are generated are presented and discussed for each of the case studies. Major topics include cellular mechanisms of action of toxicants as they relate to oncogenesis, neurotoxicology, and immunotoxicology, and the use of these data in regulatory toxicology.

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Webster T, Vieira V, Schecter A. Estimating Exposure to PBDE-47 via Air, Food and Dust Using Monte Carlo Methods. Organohalogen Compounds 2005; 67: 505-8.

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Webster T, Vieira V, Schecter A. Estimating Exposure to PBDE-47 via Air, Food and Dust Using Monte Carlo Methods. Organohalogen Compounds 2005; 67: 505-8.The full text is freely available here.

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Wu N, Webster T, Herrmann T, Paepke O, Tickner J, Hale R, Harvey E, La Guardia M, Jacobs E. Associations of PBDE Levels in Breast Milk with Diet and Indoor Dust Concentrations. Organohalogen Compounds 2005; 67: 654-657. Wu05-Dioxin05.pdf

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Wu N, Webster T, Herrmann T, Paepke O, Tickner J, Hale R, Harvey E, La Guardia M, Jacobs E. Associations of PBDE Levels in Breast Milk with Diet and Indoor Dust Concentrations. Organohalogen Compounds 2005; 67: 654-657. The full text is freely available here.

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Webster T and Sherr D. Types of AhREs and their Implications. Organohalogen Compounds 2003; 65: 106-109.webster-sherr.pdf

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Webster T and Sherr D. Types of AhREs and their Implications. Organohalogen Compounds 2003; 65: 106-109. The full text is freely available here.

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Webster T and Sherr D. Types of AhREs and their Implications. Organohalogen Compounds 2003; 65: 106-109.webster-sherr.pdf

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National Research Council of the National Academies. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA�s Standards. Prepared by the Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water: Doull J (Chair), Boekelheide K, Farishian B, Isaacson R, Klotz J, Kumar J, Limeback F, Poole C, Puzas J, Reed, N-M, Thiessen K, Webster T. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 2006. Examine or order it here

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National Research Council of the National Academies. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA�s Standards. Prepared by the Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water: Doull J (Chair), Boekelheide K, Farishian B, Isaacson R, Klotz J, Kumar J, Limeback F, Poole C, Puzas J, Reed, N-M, Thiessen K, Webster T. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 2006. Examine or order it here.

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Webster T, Commoner B. Overview: The Dioxin Debate. In: A. Schecter and T. Gasiewicz (Eds.) Dioxins and Health. 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

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Webster T, Commoner B. Overview: The Dioxin Debate. In: A. Schecter and T. Gasiewicz (Eds.) Dioxins and Health. 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Order it here.

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Ozonoff A, Webster T, Vieira V, Weinberg J, Ozonoff D, Aschengrau A. Cluster detection methods applied to the Upper Cape Cod cancer data. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2005, 4:19 (15 September 2005). The full text is freely available here

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Ozonoff A, Webster T, Vieira V, Weinberg J, Ozonoff D, Aschengrau A. Cluster detection methods applied to the Upper Cape Cod cancer data. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2005, 4:19 (15 September 2005). The full text is freely available here.

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Schlezinger JJ, Howard GJ, Hurst CH, Emberley JK, Waxman DJ, Webster T, Sherr DH. Environmental and endogenous peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma agonists induce bone marrow B cell growth arrest and apoptosis: interactions between mono(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, 9-cis-retinoic acid, and 15-deoxy-Delta12,14-prostaglandin J2. J Immunol 2004; 173(5): 3165-77.

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Schlezinger JJ, Howard GJ, Hurst CH, Emberley JK, Waxman DJ, Webster T, Sherr DH. Environmental and endogenous peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma agonists induce bone marrow B cell growth arrest and apoptosis: interactions between mono(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, 9-cis-retinoic acid, and 15-deoxy-Delta12,14-prostaglandin J2. J Immunol 2004; 173(5): 3165-77. The full text is freely available here

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National Research Council of the National Academies. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA�s Standards. Prepared by the Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water: Doull J (Chair), Boekelheide K, Farishian B, Isaacson R, Klotz J, Kumar J, Limeback F, Poole C, Puzas J, Reed, N-M, Thiessen K, Webster T. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 2006. http://fermat.nap.edu/catalog/11571.html

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National Research Council of the National Academies. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA�s Standards. Prepared by the Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water: Doull J (Chair), Boekelheide K, Farishian B, Isaacson R, Klotz J, Kumar J, Limeback F, Poole C, Puzas J, Reed, N-M, Thiessen K, Webster T. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 2006. Examine or order it here

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National Research Council of the National Academies. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA�s Standards. Prepared by the Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water: Doull J (Chair), Boekelheide K, Farishian B, Isaacson R, Klotz J, Kumar J, Limeback F, Poole C, Puzas J, Reed, N-M, Thiessen K, Webster T. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 2006.

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National Research Council of the National Academies. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA�s Standards. Prepared by the Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water: Doull J (Chair), Boekelheide K, Farishian B, Isaacson R, Klotz J, Kumar J, Limeback F, Poole C, Puzas J, Reed, N-M, Thiessen K, Webster T. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 2006. http://fermat.nap.edu/catalog/11571.html

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Interactions of chemicals. I collaborate with Dr. Jenifer Schlezinger, Dr. Mark Hahn, and doctoral student Greg Howard on the biologic effects of complex chemical mixtures.

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Interactions of chemicals. I collaborate with Dr. Jennifer Schlezinger, Dr. Mark Hahn, and doctoral student Greg Howard on the biologic effects of complex chemical mixtures.

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Interactions of chemicals. Dr. Webster collaborates with Dr. Schlezinger on the biologic effects of complex chemical mixtures.

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Interactions of chemicals. I collaborate with Dr. Jenifer Schlezinger, Dr. Mark Hahn, and doctoral student Greg Howard on the biologic effects of complex chemical mixtures.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program and co-Director of CIREEH's Integrative Human Sciences Facility Core.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am Deputy Director and a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program and co-Director of CIREEH's Integrative Human Sciences Facility Core.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Webster a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program and is co-Director of CIREEH's Integrative Human Sciences Facility Core.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. I am a Principal Investigator in the BU Superfund Basic Research Program and co-Director of CIREEH's Integrative Human Sciences Facility Core.

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McClean MD and Webster TF. Biomarkers. In: Schecter, A (Ed.) Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventative Medicine. Forthcoming.

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McClean MD and Webster TF. Biomarkers. In: Schecter, A (Ed.) Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventative Medicine. Forthcoming.

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National Research Council of the National Academies. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA�s Standards. Prepared by the Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water: Doull J (Chair), Boekelheide K, Farishian B, Isaacson R, Klotz J, Kumar J, Limeback F, Poole C, Puzas J, Reed, N-M, Thiessen K, Webster T. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 2006.

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National Research Council of the National Academies. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA�s Standards. Prepared by the Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water: Doull J (Chair), Boekelheide K, Farishian B, Isaacson R, Klotz J, Kumar J, Limeback F, Poole C, Puzas J, Reed, N-M, Thiessen K, Webster T. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 2006.

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Schlezinger JJ, Howard GJ, Hurst CH, Emberley JK, Waxman DJ, Webster T, Sherr DH (2004). Environmental and endogenous peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma agonists induce bone marrow B cell growth arrest and apoptosis: interactions between mono(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, 9-cis-retinoic acid, and 15-deoxy-Delta12,14-prostaglandin J2. J Immunol 173(5): 3165-77.
Webster T, Vieira V, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A (2003). Spatial Analysis of Case-Control Data Using Generalized Additive Models. In Jarup, L (Ed.) Proceedings from EUROHEIS/SAHSU Conference 2003: An International Conference on Health and the Environment. Small Areas Health Statistics Unit, Imperial College London.
Webster T, Commoner B. Overview: The Dioxin Debate. In: A. Schecter and T. Gasiewicz (Eds.) Dioxins and Health. 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Webster T and Sherr D (2003). Types of AhREs and their Implications. Organohalogen Compounds 65: 106-109.

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Schlezinger JJ, Howard GJ, Hurst CH, Emberley JK, Waxman DJ, Webster T, Sherr DH. Environmental and endogenous peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma agonists induce bone marrow B cell growth arrest and apoptosis: interactions between mono(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, 9-cis-retinoic acid, and 15-deoxy-Delta12,14-prostaglandin J2. J Immunol 2004; 173(5): 3165-77.
Webster T, Vieira V, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A. Spatial Analysis of Case-Control Data Using Generalized Additive Models. In Jarup, L (Ed.) Proceedings from EUROHEIS/SAHSU Conference 2003: An International Conference on Health and the Environment. Small Areas Health Statistics Unit, Imperial College London, 2003.
Webster T, Commoner B. Overview: The Dioxin Debate. In: A. Schecter and T. Gasiewicz (Eds.) Dioxins and Health. 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Webster T and Sherr D. Types of AhREs and their Implications. Organohalogen Compounds 2003; 65: 106-109.

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Schlezinger JJ, Howard GJ, Hurst CH, Emberley JK, Waxman DJ, Webster T, Sherr DH (2004). Environmental and endogenous peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma agonists induce bone marrow B cell growth arrest and apoptosis: interactions between mono(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, 9-cis-retinoic acid, and 15-deoxy-Delta12,14-prostaglandin J2. J Immunol 173(5): 3165-77.

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Webster T and Sherr D (2003). Types of AhREs and their Implications. Organohalogen Compounds 65: 106-109.

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McClean MD and Webster TF. Biomarkers. In: Schecter, A (Ed.) Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventative Medicine. Forthcoming.

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National Research Council of the National Academies. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA�s Standards. Prepared by the Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water: Doull J (Chair), Boekelheide K, Farishian B, Isaacson R, Klotz J, Kumar J, Limeback F, Poole C, Puzas J, Reed, N-M, Thiessen K, Webster T. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 2006.

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Webster T, Vieira V, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A (2003). Spatial Analysis of Case-Control Data Using Generalized Additive Models. In Jarup, L (Ed.) Proceedings from EUROHEIS/SAHSU Conference 2003: An International Conference on Health and the Environment. Small Areas Health Statistics Unit, Imperial College London.
Webster T, Commoner B. Overview: The Dioxin Debate. In: A. Schecter and T. Gasiewicz (Eds.) Dioxins and Health. 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

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Wu N, Webster T, Herrmann T, Paepke O, Tickner J, Hale R, Harvey E, La Guardia M, Jacobs E. Associations of PBDE Levels in Breast Milk with Diet and Indoor Dust Concentrations. Organohalogen Compounds 2005; 67: 654-657. Wu05-Dioxin05.pdf
Webster T, Vieira V, Schecter A. Estimating Exposure to PBDE-47 via Air, Food and Dust Using Monte Carlo Methods. Organohalogen Compounds 2005; 67: 505-8.

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Recent publications:

Webster T, Vieira V; Weinberg J; Aschengrau A. Method for mapping population-based case-control studies using Generalized Additive Models. International Journal of Health Geographics [accepted for publication].
Ozonoff A, Webster T, Vieira V, Weinberg J, Ozonoff D, Aschengrau A. Cluster detection methods applied to the Upper Cape Cod cancer data. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2005, 4:19 (15 September 2005). The full text is freely available here
Vieira V, Webster T, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A, Ozonoff D. Spatial analysis of lung, colorectal, and breast cancer on Cape Cod: An application of generalized additive models to case-control data. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2005, 4:11 (14 June 2005). The full text is freely available here.
Webster, T. Commentary: Does the spectre of ecologic bias haunt epidemiology? International Journal of Epidemiology 2002; 31:161-162. The full text is freely available here.

Recent conference presentations:

Webster T, Weinberg J, Vieira V, Hoffman K, Aschengrau A. The Impact of Community and Individual-Level Socioeconomic Status on the Risk of Breast Cancer: Multi-level Modeling among Residents of Cape Cod, MA (USA). Presented at Spacial Epidemiology 2006, London.
Webster T. Cross-level bias in partially ecologic studies. Presented at Spacial Epidemiology 2006, London.
Vieira V, Webster T, Weinberg J, Aschengrau A. Temporal-Spatial Analysis of Breast Cancer on Upeer Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Presented at Spacial Epidemiology 2006, London.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. My main research interest include:

Methodological aspects of environmental epidemiology, particularly issues of spatial epidemiology: disease mapping and clusters, ecologic bias, and the use of combinations of individual- and group-level data.
Exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. A current project investigates body burdens of and exposure routes to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a common fire retardant.
Interactions of chemicals. Dr. Webster collaborates with Dr. Schlezinger on the biologic effects of complex chemical mixtures.
Other research interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health and environmental health aspects of obesity.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. His main research interest is in methodological aspects of environmental epidemiology, particularly issues of spatial epidemiology: disease mapping and clusters, ecologic bias, and the use of combinations of individual- and group-level data. A second area of research involves the exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. A current project investigates body burdens of and exposure routes to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a common fire retardant. Other interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health, interactions of chemicals, and environmental health aspects of obesity. He is a Principal Investigator in BU�s Superfund Basic Research Program and has recently published on cluster detection and PBDE levels in human breast milk. Dr. Webster collaborates with Dr. Schlezinger on the biologic effects of complex chemical mixtures and is co-Director of the IHSFC. To learn more about Dr. Webster's work, look here.

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Thomas F. Webster, DSc, is Associate Professor of Environmental Health at |Boston University School of Public Health ?. His main research interest is in methodological aspects of environmental epidemiology, particularly issues of spatial epidemiology: disease mapping and clusters, ecologic bias, and the use of combinations of individual- and group-level data. A second area of research involves the exposure routes and health hazards of persistent organic pollutants. A current project investigates body burdens of and exposure routes to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a common fire retardant. Other interests include applications of mathematical modeling in public health, interactions of chemicals, and environmental health aspects of obesity. He is a Principal Investigator in BU�s Superfund Basic Research Program and has recently published on cluster detection and PBDE levels in human breast milk. Dr. Webster collaborates with Dr. Schlezinger on the biologic effects of complex chemical mixtures and is co-Director of the IHSFC. To learn more about Dr. Webster's work, look here.

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Tom Webster outside the John Snow Pub--a pilgrimage site for environmental epidemiologists--on Broadwick Street in Soho, London on a rainy day. The original pump was located next to the pub on what was then called Broad Street. If you visit, make sure you sign the visitor's book! To read more about Dr. John Snow, look here. His cholera map of Soho is here.

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