Discipline(s):
Medical Anthropology
Area(s) of Expertise:
Medical Anthropology, Global Health, Environmental Health, Applied Public Health, Epidemiology, Engineering
E-Mail:
dvansickle@gmail.com
Background:
David Van Sickle received his PhD in medical anthropology from the University of Arizona in 2004. His dissertation research, funded by the National Science Foundation, examined the rising prevalence of asthma and allergy in India, a topic he previously studied among Native Americans in Alaska, Arizona and New Mexico. For the last two years, David has been an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where he is assigned to the Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch. During this time, he has provided epidemiological support to the National Asthma Control Program, and investigated the health effects of exposure to mold in New Orleans, to chlorine gas in South Carolina, to carbon monoxide in Florida, and to ambient ozone among student athletes in Georgia. In addition, he helped establish emergency illness and injury surveillance in coastal Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. As a Health and Society Scholar, David will continue developing experimental methods to examine clinical decision-making in asthma and to investigate ethnic disparities in diagnosis and treatment of the disease. In addition, he plans to study the development of asthma and allergy among immigrants to the United States, and use new biomarkers of airway inflammation to explore the environmental factors influencing respiratory health at the population level.
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Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of David Van Sickle's available publications in PubMed.
