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Lawrence S. Engel

Lawrence Engel, PhD, is a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member, a UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility member and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health.

PhD
Professor, Epidemiology
UNC-Chapel Hill
Cancer Epidemiology Research Program

Area of Interest

Dr. Engel’s research focuses on the impact of disasters, including oil spills and hurricanes, on a range of health outcomes; pesticides, persistent organic pollutants, and hazardous air pollutants in relation to cancer and neurological deficits; and occupational and environmental risk factors for chronic kidney disease. Dr. Engel leads the programs in Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology in the UNC Department of Epidemiology. He teaches a graduate course and lectures on environmental, occupational, and disaster epidemiology. Dr. Engel also holds an appointment as associate scientist in the Epidemiology Branch of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

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Awards and Honors

  • NIH Director’s Award for the Gulf Long-term Follow-up (GuLF) Study, 2011
  • National Institutes of Health Merit Award, 2010
  • Outstanding Poster Award, Annual Mtg of the Soc. for Epidemiologic Rsch, Salt Lake City, UT, 2004
  • National Cancer Institute Technology Transfer Award, 2001
  • National Cancer Institute Fellowship Achievement Award, 2001
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