Faculty Information

R. William Field, M.S., Ph.D.

Professor
and Department of Epidemiology

Director, Occupational Epidemiology Training Program, NIOSH-Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety

Director, Pulmonary Outcomes Cluster, NIEHS - Environmental Health Sciences Research Center (EHSRC)
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health

Office:  S327 CPHB
Phone:  (319) 335-4413
Email:  bill-field@uiowa.edu

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Courses Taught

• Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
• Problems in Occupational and Environmental Health
• Principles of Scholarly Integrity
• Water and Public Health (under development)

Current Research Interests

• Radon measurement and health effects
• Immune-mediated disease
• Development of immune-mediated disease registries
• Novel exposure assessment methods
• Water quality
• Hydraulic fracturing / hydrofracturing (fracking)
• Air quality (indoor and outdoor)
• Health physics
• Cancer
• Cancer epidemiology
• Occupational epidemiology
• Environmental epidemiology
• COPD
• Risk perception
• Risk communication
• Translation of epidemiologic evidence
• Public health policy