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Dr.
Blair is Chief of the Occupational Epidemiology Branch
of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics,
National Cancer Institute.  His
research has focused on cancer risks from agricultural
exposures, industrial chemicals, physical inactivity,
occupational exposures among women, and methodolological
issues in occupational epidemiology.
He
has evaluated the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,
leukemia, and multiple myeloma among farmers in the
first case-control studies to obtain detailed information
on pesticides used and application practices. This
work has culminated the development of the Agricultural
Health Study, a long-term prospective study of 90,000
farmers and their spouses in Iowa and North Carolina,
designed to investigate cancer and other diseases
associated with agricultural exposures and lifestyle. His
studies of cancer mortality among workers exposed
to the important industrial chemicals formaldehyde
and acrylonitrile were among the first to employ
sophisticated algorithms to develop quantitative
estimates of exposure in multi-company studies. He
has evaluated cancer risks among women in studies
of dry cleaners and aircraft maintenance workers. Methodological
studies have focused on confounding, meta-analysis,
and misclassification in exposure assessment.
Dr.
Blair has served on IARC Monograph Working Groups,
Environmental Protection Science Advisory Panel Subgroup,
and on Organizing Committees for Conferences on Assessment
of Smoking in Occupational Studies, Exposure Assessment
in Occupational Investigations, and Physical Activity
and Cancer. He
has served on Editorial Boards of the American Journal
of Epidemiology, Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment
and Health, and the Journal of Agricultural Safety
and Health. Besides
being a Fellow and Board Member of ACE, Dr.
Blair is also a member of the American Epidemiologic
Society.
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