Last Edited: 8/1/12
Daniel Smith, DrPH
Dr. Smith received a Master of Science degree in Environmental Health from the University of Minnesota, and a Doctor of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from UCLA. His areas of interest include human biomonitoring, persistent organic pollutants, epidemiologic methods and biostatistics, regression modelling and cluster analysis.
Position:
Research Scientist SupervisorSection:
Environmental EpidemiologyHire Date:
01/03/83Employment:
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(510)620-3620Reports / Articles
- A follow-up study of the community near the McColl waste disposal site
- A Study of current residents' knowledge of a former environmental health survey of their community
- Acute health effects due to a large sulfuric acid release in Richmond, California. Phase I Report
- Acute Health Effects Due to a Large Sulfuric Acid Release in Richmond, California. Phase II Report
- Adipose levels of dioxins and risk of breast cancer
- An assessment of error in parental occupation from the birth certificate
- Approaches to disease cluster investigations in a state health department
- Are Thyroid Hormone Concentrations at Birth Associated With Subsequent Autism Diagnosis?
- Biological monitoring for mercury within a community with soil and fish contamination
- California Superfund sites: insights from a computerized database
- Cancer Incidence Near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory: 1978-1989
- Childhood cancer incidence rates and hazardous air pollutants in California: an exploratory analysis
- Clues to the Etiology of Disease Clusters -- A Practical Method
- Community-Based Health Survey Following the Cantara Metam-Sodium Spill
- Distribution of persistent, lipid-soluble chemicals in breast and abdominal adipose tissues: Lessons learned from a breast cancer study
- Elevated symptom prevalence associated with ventilation type in office buildings
- Estimating epidemiologic parameters by regression
- Four County Study of Childhood Cancer Incidence: Interim Report 2
- Health effects of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin and related compounds
- Micronucleated erythrocytes as an index of cytogenetic damage in humans: demographic and dietary factors associated with micronucleated erythrocytes in splenectomized subjects
- Parental and birth characteristics in relation to testicular cancer risk among males born between 1960 and 1995 in California (United States).
- Pesticide food poisoning from contaminated watermelons in California
- Pregnancy Outcomes around the BKK Landfill, West Covina, California: An Analysis by Address
- Real-time surveillance of symptoms and odor complaints during the trial excavation of a toxic waste site
- Regional variations in breast cancer incidence among California women, 1988-1997
- Rice burning and asthma hospitalizations, Butte County, California, 1983-1992
- Sacramento hepatoblastoma cluster investigation
- Study endpoints, goals, and prioritization for a program in hazardous chemical epidemiology
- The Four County Study of childhood cancer: Clusters in context
- Traffic patterns and childhood cancer incidence rates in California -- Objective: Some studies have suggested that residential proximity to high traffic areas is associated with increased risk of childhood cancer, although the epidemiologic evidence to date has been mixed....
- Trends in the sex ratio of California births, 1960–1996
- Worldwide trends in DDT levels in human breast milk
Current Projects
- Agricultural Burning: Air Monitoring and Exposure Reduction in Imperial County
- Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease in the California Teachers Cohort
- Autism in relation to Hazardous and Criteria Air Pollutants
- California Breathing: Addressing Asthma from a Public Health Perspective
- Community Vulnerabilities and Resiliencies to Heat Waves
- Klau/Buena Vista Mines, San Luis Obispo County - Public Health Activities
- Monitoring Early Childhood Autism (MECA)
- New River, Imperial County - Public Health Activities
- Omega Chemical Corporation, Whittier - Public Health Activities
- Perchlorate in Drinking Water and Newborn Thyroid Function
- Prenatal Smoking and Daughter’s Age at Menarche
- UC Richmond Field Station - Public Health Activities
- Urinary Pesticide Metabolites Study
- Vermiculite usage in California - Health Statistics Review - Public Health Activities


