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Occupational and Environmental Health 124 IREH |
Current ResearchWayne T. Sanderson, PhD, CIHAssociate Professor
I direct the Industrial Hygiene Training Program for the Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety, where I teach industrial hygiene courses. My primary research focus is on agricultural health and safety. I am 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. I also conduct research studies on respiratory diseases, cancers, and birth defects associated with a variety of occupational and environmental exposures and on agents of bioterrorism. Before joining the faculty at The University of Iowa in 2002, I worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), starting in 1978 and culminating with a position as Chief of the Industrial Hygiene Section in the Industrywide Studies Branch. One of my last assignments with the CDC was as an investigator of anthrax contamination of post offices in Washington, DC; I continue to conduct research on evaluation of agents that may be used as agents of bioterrorism. The research projects my students cover a broad range of topics. My first MS student evaluated the association between agricultural production and ground water contamination. My second student evaluated various techniques for collecting and extracting Bacillus anthracis spores from environmental sampling media. Subsequent students have studied dust and noise control methods in swine houses, dust and crystalline silica exposures of Portland cement workers, and schoolchildren’s exposure to diesel exhaust from school buses. One of my current PhD students is collaborating with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to evaluate in-home pesticide levels in rural Iowa homes. Another PhD student is conducting a very interesting study in the Gambia to evaluate pesticide exposures of mosquito control workers. I never planned to be a college professor. Since
I was five years old, all I really wanted to be was a cowboy. I
live with my wife Karen Sue on a farm north of Iowa City where we
raise horses, cattle, and chickens. And we try to entice our three
grown sons (Justin, Zach, and Ty) to visit us. To view my Community of Science (COS) Profile and recent publications, click here |
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