Laura Beane Freeman Elected Chair of the Management Committee of EPICOH

In October 2021, Laura Beane Freeman, Ph.D., senior investigator in the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB), was elected to a three-year term as chair of the Management Committee of Epidemiology in Occupational Health Conference (EPICOH), the largest occupational epidemiologic society; the Management Committee oversees the activities of the society.

The 28th annual EPICOH conference, “From the Workplace to the Population: Exposure and Prevention,” is being conducted virtually October 25-28, 2021. Dr. Beane Freeman served as scientific chair for the conference program.

Below are the OEEB investigators who will deliver oral presentations, participate in and lead symposia, and present at pre-conference workshops.

Oral Presentations

Stella Koutros, Ph.D, M.P.H., tenure-track investigator, “Diesel exhaust exposure and somatic mutations in bladder tumors.”

Shuai Xie, Ph.D., M.P.H., postdoctoral fellow, “Development of task-specific endotoxin concentrations for agricultural activities using meta-regression of published data.”

Vicky Chang, Ph.D., M.P.H., postdoctoral fellow, “Permethrin use and circulating immunologic markers: A longitudinal investigation in the Biomarkers of Exposure and Effect in Agriculture study.”

Rapid Fire Presentations

Pabitra Josse, M.S., occupational exposure assessment specialist, “Collecting real-time self-reported information on intermittent agricultural activities using smartphones.”

Sarah Locke, M.S., M.S.P.H., Assistant Branch Chief, “Evaluating approaches designed to increase sensitivity of capturing work task information in a multi-center hospital-based case-control study in Asia.”

Symposium Presentation

Melissa Friesen, Ph.D., senior investigator, “SOCcer 2.0 and SOCcer in the Field: Moving from coding occupation after data collection to coding in real time by study subjects.”

Oral Sessions Chairs

Dr. Koutros: Specific Occupations

Jonathan Hofmann, Ph.D., M.P.H.: Biomarkers

Dr. Friesen: Sex and Gender

Debra Silverman, Sc.D.: Cancer

Richard Remigio, Ph.D., M.S., M.Phil.: Heat and Climate Change

Dr. Beane Freeman: Symposium Organizer, "AGRICOH: A Consortium of Agricultural Cohorts and Plenary keynote David Michaels on COVID-19 as an occupational disease"