Engulfed in Disaster: Studying Health Effects of an Oil Spill in a Disadvantaged Population
Speaker: Dale Sandler, PhD,
Chief, Epidemiology Branch, Intramural Research Program
National Institute of Environmental Health Science
March 29 @ 12 p.m.,
Becton DIckinson Hall (W1020)
Dale Sandler, PhD, is Chief of the Epidemiology Branch in the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, where she is Senior Investigator and leads the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Research Group. She received an MPH from Yale University School of Public Health and a PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. She is Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health and has held editorial positions with leading journals in epidemiology. Her research on environmental risk factors for chronic diseases takes advantage of large prospective studies that she initiated and nurtured over many years. She is Principal Investigator of the Sister Study, now in its 20th year. The Sister Study follows more than 50,000 sisters of women who have had breast cancer to identify environmental and genetic contributors to breast cancer risk. In 2010, following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, she established the Gulf Long-term Follow-up (GuLF) Study, a prospective study of the health of clean-up and response workers. In partnership with researchers at the NCI, she also has been following a cohort of licensed pesticide applicators and their spouses since 1997. Dr. Sandler has received NIEHS and NIH Director’s awards for this work and has received NIEHS and NIH awards for mentoring. In 2015 she received the Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service from the American Medical Association.
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