Research activities in the Program range across a broad spectrum of topics in occupational and environmental medicine. Major focus is placed on identification of causal associations between environmental factors and disease and the evaluation of strategies for early diagnosis and treatment of occupational and environmental conditions, utilizing biologically-intensive investigation of small, well-characterized populations with exposures of interest. Arrangement may be made for fellows to conduct research under the supervision of University faculty outside the Program.

Research projects of principal faculty include:

• Chemoprevention of lung cancer among men with asbestos-related disease
• Worksite smoking cessation and prevention of relapse
• Natural history of asbestos-related disease
• Carpal tunnel syndrome among workers exposed to repetitive motion
• Standardized mortality study of Pacific Northwest firefighters
• Bronchial hyperactivity among irritant-exposed workers
• Prospective study of factors causing back pain disability
• Long-term health sequelae of acute and chronic pesticide exposure
• Neuropsychologic sequelae of solvent exposure
• Health effects of working in the diatomaceous earth industry
• Pesticide health effects