Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

Dean Hosgood H

Biography

He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health. Dr. Hosgood has focused his research on inter-individual variations of cancer susceptibility associated with environmental (and occupational) exposures. To accomplish this, Dr. Hosgood utilizes advanced molecular epidemiological methods that integrate cutting edge environmental exposure assessment data with biomarkers of susceptibility (i.e. genetic data) to elucidate the complex mechanisms underlying tumorigenesis. He is involved in a number of international case-control and cohort studies, as well as consortia evaluating the risk factors of lung cancer, primarily in Asia. Dr. Hosgood's work has also shown that an inexpensive stove intervention can reduce the 4 million deaths annually attributed to solid fuel use; converting from indoor fire pits to portable stoves reduces lung cancer mortality risk by at least 40%.

Research Interest

Environmental Epidemiology; Occupational Epidemiology; Global Health; Lung Cancer; Never Smokers; Hematologic Malignancies; non-Hodgkin Lymphoma; Asian Populations; Epigenetic Markers of Cancer Susceptibility; Genetic and Genomic Susceptibility to Cancer; Noninvasive Biomarkers of Cancer Prevention; Noninvasive Biomarkers of Treatment Response; Outcomes Epidemiology; Cancer Epidemiology