Research Program: Prevention & Etiology
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences

balex@umn.edu
612-625-7934 — office

Research Interests

Occupational and environmental epidemiology; environmental determinants of injury, cancer, respiratory health, reproductive health; application of biological markers in epidemiological research; amproving exposure models in occupational and environmental epidemiology; global health.

Selected Publications

Baker BA, Alexander BH, Mandel JS, Acquavella JF, Honeycutt R, Chapman P. Farm Family Exposure Study: methods and recruitment practices for a biomonitoring study of pesticide exposure. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol. 2005;15:491-499.

Carlson KF, Gerberich SG, Church TR, Ryan AD, Alexander BH, Mongin SJ, Renier CM, Zhang X, French LR, Masten A. Tractor-related injuries: a population-based study of a five-state region in the Midwest. Am J Ind Med. 2005;47:254-264.

Yoshinaga S, Hauptmann M, Sigurdson AJ, Doody MM, Freedman DM, Alexander BH, Linet MS, Ron E, Mabuchi K. Nonmelanoma skin cancer in relation to ionizing radiation exposure among U.S. radiologic technologists. Int J Cancer. 2005;115:828-834.

Sigurdson AJ, Hauptmann M, Chatterjee N, Alexander BH, Doody MM, Rutter JL, Struewing JP. Kin-cohort estimates for familial breast cancer risk in relation to variants in DNA base excision repair, BRCA1 interacting and growth factor genes. BMC Cancer. 2004; 4:9.

Acquavella JF, Alexander BH, Mandel JS, Gustin C, Baker B, Chapman P, Bleeke M. Glyphosate biomonitoring for farmers and their families: results from the Farm Family Exposure Study. Environ Health Perspect. 2004;112:321-326.