Erin M. Bell, Ph.D.

SUNY Associate Professor, Epidemiology
(Associate Chair, Environmental Health Sciences)
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Dr. Bell

Address:
University at Albany, School of Public Health
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
One University Place
Rensselaer, NY 12144-3456

Phone:           (518) 402-0375
Fax:               (518) 402-0380
E-mail:            ebell@albany.edu

Education:

Ph.D. (Epidemiology), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.S. (Epidemiology), University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Research Interests:

Environmental and occupational epidemiology, environmental exposures and their relation to adverse reproductive outcomes and cancer, agricultural health, the use of geographical techniques for environmental exposure assessment

Teaching:

EPI 697 Advanced Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
EPI 613 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

Selected Publications and Presentations:

Earle-Richardson G, Jenkins PL, Strogatz D, Bell EM, May JJ. Development and initial assessment of objective fatigue measures for apple harvest work. Applied Ergonomics, 2006: Nov; 37(6):719-27.

Bell EM, Sandler DP, Alavanja MCR. High Pesticide Exposure Events among Farmers and Spouses Enrolled in the Agricultural Health Study. Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health, 2006; 12(2):101-116.

Rosamond WD, Chambless LE, Sorlie PD, Bell EM, Weitzman S, Clinton Smith JC, Folsom AR. Trends in the Sensitivity, Positive Predictive Value, False-Positive Rate, and Comparability Ratio of Hospital Discharge Diagnosis Codes for Acute Myocardial Infarction in Four United States Communities, 1987 to 2000. American Journal of Epidemiology 2004 Dec 15;160(12):1137-46.

Jenkins PL, Earle-Richardson G, Bell EM, May JJ, Green A. Chronic Disease Risk in Central New York Dairy Farmers: Results From a Large Health Survey 1989-1999. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 2005 Jan;47(1):20-6.

Bell EM, Hertz-Picciotto I, Beaumont JJ. Response to A Case-Cohort Analysis of Agricultural Pesticide Applications near Maternal Residence and Selected Causes of Fetal Death. American Journal of Epidemiology(letter) 2002; 155(8):780.

Bell EM, Hertz-Picciotto I, Beaumont JJ. Response to Pesticides and Fetal Death due to Congenital Anomalies. Epidemiology(letter) 2001; 12:593-594.

Bell EM, Hertz-Picciotto I, Beaumont JJ. Pesticides and Fetal Death due to Congenital Anomalies: Implications of an Erratum. Epidemiology(letter) 2001; 12:595.

Bell EM, Hertz-Picciotto I, Beaumont JJ. A Case-Cohort Analysis of Agricultural Pesticide Applications Near Maternal Residence and Fetal Death. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2001; 154 (8):702-10.

Bell EM, Hertz-Picciotto I, Beaumont JJ. A Case-Control Study of Pesticides and Fetal Death Due to Congenital Anomalies. Epidemiology 2001; 12:148-156.