 Associate Professor
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health
Office: 134 IREH
Phone: (319) 335-4207
Email: wayne-sanderson@uiowa.edu
Biosketch (pdf) / Community of Science Profile
Wayne Sanderson is currently a professor in the College of Public Health at The University of Iowa. He is the Director of the Industrial Hygiene Training Program for the Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety where he teaches courses concerning epidemiology, occupational, and environmental health. Dr. Sanderson’s primary research focus is on agricultural health and safety. He is the Director of the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health, which is a leading national Center for research and education on health and safety problems facing our nation’s rural residents. Dr. Sanderson is also conducting research studies on respiratory diseases and cancers associated with a variety of occupational and environmental exposures and on agents of bioterrorism.
Dr. Sanderson received an MS in Industrial Hygiene from Central Missouri State University and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina. He has been a Certified Industrial Hygienist since 1987.
Before joining the faculty at The University of Iowa in 2002, he worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), starting in 1978 and culminating with his position as Chief of the Industrial Hygiene Section in the Industrywide Studies Branch. One of his last assignments with the CDC was as an investigator of anthrax contamination of post offices in Washington, DC. He continues to conduct research on evaluation of agents that may be used as agents of bioterrorism.
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