Department of Public Health Sciences
For more than 50 years, the Department of Public Health Sciences has provided graduate education and engaged in research aimed at improving health and health care for citizens. The focus of research and graduate programs is on health policy and management, health technology assessment, epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental health and global health. Collectively, faculty members represent many disciplines in the natural, biomedical, clinical, social, economic and behavioral sciences.
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Isomer profiles of perfluorochemicals in matched maternal, cord and house dust samples: manufacturing sources and transplacental transfer.
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Shoeib, M., Webster, G., Harner, T., Benskin, J. P., Beesoon. S., Martin, J. W.
Background: Perfluorochemicals (PFCs) are detectable in the general population and in the human environment, including house dust. Sources are not well characterized, but isomer patterns should enable differentiation of historical and contemporary manufacturing sources. Isomer-specific...
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Yasui, Y., Burstyn, I., Li, Q., Beesoon, S., Cherry, N. M., Martin, J. W., Bamforth, F.
We conducted a case-referent study of the effect of exposure to bisphenol-A on fetal growth in utero in full-term, live-born singletons in Alberta, Canada. Newborns <10 percentile of expected weight for gestational age and sex were individually matched on sex, maternal smoking and maternal age to...