Anne’s research focuses on occupational and environmental risk factors for chronic disease, and she is particularly interested in studying and improving the methods used to conduct this type of research. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on occupational risk factors for Parkinson’s disease (especially whole body vibration exposure), but she has also studied road design influences on the risk of bicycling injury, trends in the timing of puberty, and the effect of privacy restrictions on health research. As OCRC’s first postdoctoral trainee, Anne plans to develop projects related to exposure assessment while also working on studies of sino-nasal cancer and the burden of occupational cancer in Ontario.
For more information on Anne’s research interests, and a full CV, see her website: http://anneharris.weebly.com/
Education
- B.Sc. (Biology), Queen’s University (2003)
- M.Sc. (Biology), Queen’s University (2005)
- Ph.D. (Epidemiology), University of British Columbia (2010)
Current OCRC Projects
- Wood dust and sinonasal cancer in Canada
- Shiftwork in Canadian industries: A probable cancer risk factor
- Occupational cancer surveillance using the 1991-2006 Canadian census mortality & cancer cohort
- Surveillance of occupational cancer risks through linkage of WSIB claims to the Ontario Cancer Registry: a pilot study
- The human and economic burden of occupational cancer in Ontario
