University of Iowa

Faculty Member, Occupational and Environmental Health

Professor

College of Public Health

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R. William Field, Ph.D, M.S.

Dr. Bill Field is a Professor at the University of Iowa’s College of Public Health with joint appointments in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology. He directs NIOSH’s funded Occupational Epidemiology Training Program as well as NIEHS’ funded Environmental Lung Disease Research Cluster, which are both located at the University of Iowa. He has been actively involved in radon research for close to 20 years and just recently completed four years assisting the World Health Organization in their efforts to produce guidance to reduce the global burden of radon-related lung cancer.  He also currently serves on the Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board’s Radiation Advisory Committee, and was recently appointed by President Obama to the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health, a group that provides advice to the Secretary, Health and Human Services regarding activities under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. 

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Dr. Field has received numerous honors and awards for his work including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)/National Environmental Health Association's (NEHA) Individual Achievement Award for Excellence in Radon Risk Reduction, the EPA's Children's Environmental Health Recognition Award, as well as other honorary society, professional association, and university awards. 

Dr. Field was one of the 3 final reviewers for the Department of Health and Human Services' toxicological profile for radon as well as presented testimony on radon research needs to the President's Cancer Panel in December 2008.  Dr. Field is currently overseeing several large-scale occupational cohort studies involving munitions workers and nuclear bomb assemblers as well as pooled case-control analyses examining the health effects of prolonged radon decay product exposure. 

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