Environmental epidemiology; air pollution; water pollution; cancer molecular epidemiology (primarily lung cancer, breast cancer and Upper-GI cancers); gene-environment interaction; cancer survival.
The University at Buffalo’s Collaborating Centre on Health in Housing has been re-designated as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Research on Healthy Settings. More than 800 collaborating centers globally work with WHO on areas such as nursing, occupational health, communicable diseases, chronic diseases, emergency response, e-health and more.
Overlap of age at diagnosis of breast cancer and age with high consumption of caffeine, and inconsistent findings from previous studies, motivated researchers to study whether caffeine could affect breast cancer risk.