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Ghassan Hamra

"Assistant Professor "
Environmental and Occupational Health
Drexel University
United States of America

Biography

"Dr. Ghassan Hamra is an occupational and environmental epidemiologist with a strong interest in exposure assessment and Bayesian statistics. He received his MSPH and his PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most recently, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the International Agency for Research on Cancer. His work focuses on quantifying risk of chronic diseases and the development and application of methods to overcome analytic challenges in occupational and environmental health research. In addition to his research, Ghassan is committed to providing high quality methodological training to emerging scientists, and has published several methodological papers aimed at demystifying complex topics in epidemiology. "

Research Interest

Neurodevelopment and Neurologic Disorders

Publications

  • "Hamra GB, MacLehose RF, Cole SR. Sensitivity Analyses for Sparse-Data Problems-Using Weakly Informative Bayesian Priors. Epidemiology. Mar 2013;24(2):233-239. "

  • "MacLehose RF, Hamra GB. Applications of Bayesian Methods to Epidemiologic Research. Current Epidemiology Reports. 2014:1-7. "

  • "Hamra GB, Guha N, Cohen A, et al. Outdoor Particulate Matter Exposure and Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Environ Health Perspect. 2014. "

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