Duncan Thomas

  • Holder of Verna R. Richter Chair in Cancer Research
  • Professor of Preventive Medicine and Co-director, Division of Biostatistics, Keck School of Medicine
Office: (323) 442-1218

Expertise Summary

Religion expert focusing on values, faith-based social services and the sociology of religion in America

Expertise

  • cancer epidemiology
  • genetic epidemiology
  • radiation carcinogenesis
  • electromagnetic fields
  • environmental health
  • biostatistics — design and analysis of studies relating health outcomes to environmental exposures and genetics

Additional Information

  • Fellow: American College of Epidemiology, American Epidemiological Society
  • President, International Genetic Epidemiology Society (1999)
  • Member, President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (1995-96)
  • Author, Risk Estimates for the Health Effects of Alpha-Radiation (1982), Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology (Oxford, 2004), Statistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology (Oxford, 2009), and numerous papers on biostatistical methods and epidemiology