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2009 Summer Program in Applied Biostatistical and Epidemiological Methods
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About the Program
Course Descriptions - Week 1
Course Descriptions - Week 2
Faculty Biographies
  Jack Barnette, Ph.D.
  Bob Brems, M.P.H.
  Harvey Checkoway, Ph.D.
  Richard C. Dicker, M.D., M.S.
  Gregory C. Gray, M.D., M.P.H., FIDSA
  David W. Hosmer Jr., Ph.D.
  David G. Kleinbaum, Ph.D.
  Tom Lang, M.A.
  Stanley Lemeshow, PhD
  James A. Mercy, Ph.D.
  J. Michael Oakes, Ph.D.
  William Rising, Ph.D.
  William M. Sappenfield, M.D., M.P.H.
  William R. Shadish, Ph.D.
  Lisa Simpson M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP
  Jeff Smith
  Kenny Steinman Ph.D., M.P.H
  Donna F. Stroup, Ph.D., M.Sc
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Harvey Checkoway, Ph.D.

Harvey Checkoway, Ph.D.
Professor, Environmental Health & Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Dr. Checkoway is a professor of environmental health and epidemiology at the University of Washington. His main areas of research and teaching are occupational and environmental risk factors for chronic diseases. Recent examples of research projects for which he has been or is principal investigator are studies of: silica, silicosis, and lung cancer among diatomaceous earth industry workers; environmental and genetic risk factors for Parkinson’s disease; and cancer risks among textile workers in Shanghai. Since 1998, he has been the director of the UW Superfund Basic Research Program Project, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Dr. Checkoway is first author of a textbook on occupational epidemiology, “Research Methods in Occupational Epidemiology,” New York: Oxford University Press (1st edition1989, 2nd edition 2004), and has published over 180 papers in peer-reviewed scientific literature. He is also the environmental epidemiology editor for the American Journal of Epidemiology. Dr. Checkoway has previously taught approximately 20 short courses in occupational and environmental epidemiology in the US, Europe, and Australia.