Pabitra Josse, M.S.

Biography

Ms. Josse received an M.S. in environmental health from Colorado State University. She joined the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB) in 2017 as an occupational exposure assessment specialist. Ms. Josse’s research focuses on characterizing occupational exposure in epidemiologic studies of cancer. Before joining NCI, Ms. Josse worked at Westat as a senior study director, providing study management and exposure characterization for occupational and environmental exposures in epidemiologic studies.

Research Interests

• Identifying, extracting, and synthesizing exposure-related information from the published and grey literature for use in reconstructing occupational exposures.
• Developing novel retrospective exposure assessment methods to efficiently evaluate and estimate historical workplace exposures in epidemiologic studies of cancer.
• Designing and implementing field sampling strategies for prospective studies to characterize exposures and identify key exposure determinants.