Allan H. Smith

Allan H. Smith
Leader, Project 3: Arsenic biomarker epidemiology
 
E-mail: ahsmith@berkeley.edu
Tel: (510) 843-1736
Fax: (510) 843-5539
 
Mailing address:
University of California at Berkeley
School of Public Health
140 Warren Hall #7360
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
 
Web page: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~asrg

Research Interests

Studies of the health effects of arsenic in drinking water
Molecular Epidemiology
Risk assessment for occupational and environmental exposures
International health studies

Recent Publications

Mazumder DN, Steinmaus C, Bhattacharya P, von Ehrenstein OS, Ghosh N, Gotway M, Sil A, Balmes J, Haque R, Hira-Smith M, Smith AH (2005) Increased risk of bronchiectasis in persons with skin lesions due to arsenic in drinking water in West Bengal, India. Epidemiology. In press.
 
von Ehrenstein OS, Mazumder DN, Yuan Y, Samanta S, Balmes J, Sil A, Ghosh N, Hira-Smith M, Haque R, Purushothamam R, Lahiri S, Das S, Smith AH (2005) Decrements in lung function related to arsenic in drinking water in West Bengal, India. Am J Epidemiology. In press.
 
Steinmaus C, Yuan Y, Smith AH (2005) The temporal stability of arsenic well water concentrations in Western Nevada. Environmental Research. In press.
 
Bates MN, Rey OA, Biggs ML, Hopenhayn C, Moore LE, Kalman D, Steinmaus C, Smith AH (2004) Case-control study of bladder cancer and exposure to arsenic in Argentina Am J Epidemiol 159(4):381-9. [PDF]
 
Mitra SR, Guha Mazumder DN, Basu A, Block G, Haque R, Samanta S, Ghosh N, Smith MM, von Ehrenstein OS, Smith AH (2004) Nutritional factors and susceptibility to arsenic-caused skin lesions in West Bengal, India Environ Health Perspect 112(10):1104-9. [PDF]