Program Faculty

Program Directors

Lianne Sheppard, PhD, is the Rohm and Haas Professor in Public Health Sciences, with appointments in EOHS and Biostatistics.  Her research interests focus on statistical methods for environmental and occupational epidemiology; they include study design and estimation of environmental exposure effects.  She leads and actively collaborates on EHS projects, currently her work focuses on air pollution and aging.  She has actively mentored many students and postdocs in biostatistical and EHS research, including as advisor or committee member for 33 PhD students in eight departments, twelve post docs, and many additional masters students.  She is PI of SURE-EH, a NIEHS-funded R25 to enhance diversity in the EHS by funding mentored undergraduate research experiences.  She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and Chair of the seven-member chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee.  She has over 199 peer-reviewed publications, most in EHS areas.  Dr. Sheppard devotes 5% effort to administer BEBTEH.

June Spector, MD, MPH is a Research Associate Professor in the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS), Adjunct in the UW Department of Medicine/Division of General Internal Medicine. She is also an occupational research physician and occupational disease prevention lead at the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries’ Safety & Health Assessment & Research for Prevention (SHARP) Program, where she participates in policy-relevant research, tracking activities, field research, and the Work Equity Research Center (WERC).

Her research focuses on occupational climate-related hazards, including the prevention and management of occupational heat stress, using epidemiologic, field exposure assessment, intervention evaluation, community-engaged, and interdisciplinary approaches. Her research has been supported by Federal (CDC, NIH), State, and non-profit (The Nature Conservancy, Science for Nature & People Partnership) sponsors and has included collaboration with the CDC/NIOSH-funded Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety & Health (PNASH) Center.

Program Mentors