Ph.D. Students

Howard Dean Hosgood, III, M.P.H.

Division of Environmental Health Sciences

dean.hosgood@yale.edu

Dean Hosgood’s primary research interests pertain to inter-individual genetic susceptibility to occupational and environmental exposures. His current research at the National Cancer Institute involves non-smoking lung cancer and indoor air pollution from coal and wood combustion exposure in China. During his Master’s program, his research focused on the association between occupational silica exposure and lung cancer in the absence of silicosis. In addition, he has studied organic arsenic, multiple myeloma and dietary risk factors, the use of spirometry in the diagnosis of pediatric asthma, endocytosis in the malaria parasite plasmodium falciparum, and research and intervention design in El Salvador.

Education

M.P.H., Yale School of Public Health, 2005
B.S., Carnegie Mellon University, 2002

Awards and Honors

Yale Green Fund Grant, Yale University, 2006
Yale-National Cancer Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Yale School of Public Health, 2005
Green Ivy Award, Yale University, 2005
Yale Green Fund Grant, Yale University, 2004
Jan A.J. Stolwijk Fellowship, Yale School of Public Health, 2004

Experience

Research Assistant, Department of Occupational Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, 2006
Research Assistant, University of New Haven Department of Industrial Hygiene, 2006
Environmental Health Consultant, Jonathan Borak and Company, 2004-2006
Planning and Management Consultant, Holt, Wexler, and Farnam, LLC, 2004-2005
Research Assistant, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, 2002-2004

Publications

Lan, Q., Zheng, T., Chanock, S., Zhang, Y., Shen, M., Wang, S., Berdnt, S., Zahm, S., Holford, T., Leaderer, B., Yeager, M., Welch, R., Hosgood, D., Boyle, P., and Rothman, N. Genetic Variants in Caspase Genes and Susceptibility to Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Carcinogenesis, in press.

Borak, J. and Hosgood, H.D. Seafood Arsenic: Implications for Human Risk Assessment. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, in press.

Holt, E.W., Tan, J.M., and Hosgood, H.D. The Impact of Spirometry on Pediatric Asthma Diagnosis and Treatment. Journal of Asthma, in press.