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Brian Leaderer, MPH, PhD

Susan Dwight Bliss Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)
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Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

Senior Research Scientist, Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Environmental Health Sciences

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Susan Dwight Bliss Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)

Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Senior Research Scientist, Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Environmental Health Sciences

Biography

Dr. Brian Leaderer is the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health and Professor Emeritus of the Yale School of the Environment. He is also a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology (the Yale CPPEE, or the "Center"), which he co-directed for 18 years.  In his role as the Deputy Dean at the Yale School of Public Health for over 14 years (during which he was also Interim Dean for 2 years), he oversaw Faculty Affairs including the Appointments and Promotion Committee and Faculty Mentoring Program. He has served on several Committees and Review Panels (NRC, EPA, HEI, etc.). 

Dr. Leaderer's research interests, resulting in over 300 publications, are interdisciplinary in nature with a focus on assessing exposures (measured and modeled in both environmental chamber and field studies) to air contaminants (indoor and outdoor) and assessing the health impact resulting from those exposures in epidemiological studies. Over the past 30 years, he has been Principal Investigator on numerous research grants (totaling approximately $40 million). Several of these grants have been large epidemiologic-based grants (R01s) centered on the role of environmental and genetic factors on the respiratory health of children with particular attention to their role in the development of asthma and asthma severity.  He has collaborated with colleagues from several disciplines at the Yale CPPEE for over 30 years on several epidemiologic studies examining the impact of pollutants on perinatal and pediatric outcomes. With funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), he investigated the relationship between exposures to indoor levels of nitrogen dioxide, traffic contaminants, and the exacerbation of asthma in 1,401 children (in the STAR Study).  The findings from this study resulted in another NIH-funded (NIEHS) grant to conduct a double-blind, randomized control, triple cross-over design intervention trial in urban homes of asthmatic children to examine the efficacy of reducing exposure to indoor levels of PM2.5 and NO2 on reducing asthma severity.

Appointments

Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

PhD
Yale University, Environmental Epidemiology (1975)
MPH
Yale University, Environmental Health (1971)

Research

Overview

  • Traffic and Respiratory Health
  • Indoor and Outdoor NO2 and Asthma Severity in Children
  • Asthma Severity in Children and Fine Particle Composition
  • Gene-Environment Interactions in Asthma Development
  • Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors in Asthma Severity
  • The Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Air Pollution; Air Pollution, Indoor; Asthma; Environment and Public Health; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Environmental Pollution; Epidemiology; Public Health

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Brian Leaderer's published research.

Publications

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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    NIAID, Inner City Asthma Consortium External Scientific Advisory Group

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    Several advisory groups for the U.S. EPA

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    Board of Directors of International Society of Exposure Analysis

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    Several World Health Organization Committees on Indoor Air Quality including Biological Contaminants and Combustion Source Contaminants

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    Science Advisory Board, U.S. EPA; Board Committees: Review of Clinical Research Program, Exposure Assessment Committee, Future Research Needs in the '90s, Health Research Needs and Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards Committees, Indoor Air Quality and Total Human Exposure Assessment Committee

Get In Touch

Contacts

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Mailing Address

Environmental Health Sciences

PO Box 208034, 60 College Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8034

United States

Locations

  • Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology (CPPEE)

    Academic Office

    1 Church Street, Ste 6th Floor

    New Haven, CT 06510