Dale Pearlman Sandler is an American epidemiologist specialized in prospective cohort studies designed to study the impact of environmental exposures on population health. She is chief of the Epidemiology Branch at the

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) conducts research into the effects of the environment on human disease, as one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is located in the Rese ...

. Sandler is a past president of the American College of Epidemiology and received a Dr. Nathan Davis Award in 2015.

Education

Sandler completed a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy, ''

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'' at the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences in June 1972. She earned a M.P.H. in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale School of Medicine in May 1975. Her thesis was titled ''Serum Cholesterol, Serum Uric Acid, and ABO Blood Groups in West Point Cadets''. In October 1979, Sandler competed a Ph.D. in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Her dissertation was titled ''Health Consequences of Nasopharyngeal Radium Irradiation''.

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was Sandler's doctoral advisor.

Career and research

Sandler joined the

(NIEHS) in 1979 as a health statistician. She heads the Chronic Disease Epidemiology group and has been chief of the Epidemiology Branch in the Division of Intramural Research at NIEHS since 2003.

Stephanie J. London Stephanie J. London is an American epidemiologist and physician-scientist specializing in environmental health, respiratory diseases, and genetic susceptibility. She is the deputy chief of the epidemiology branch at the National Institute of Env ...

is the Deputy Chief. Sandler is adjunct professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sandler has authored more than 230 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Sandler's research involves prospective cohort studies designed to study the impact of environmental exposures on population health. She is a principal investigator of the following three studies: The Agricultural Health Study (AHS), The Sister Study, and the

GuLF Study The GuLF Study, or Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study, is a five-year research project examining the human-health consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, ''Deepwater Horizon'' oil spill in April 2010. The spill followed an explosion on a dr ...

Awards and honors

Sandler received a NIH Director's Award in 2009 for developing the Sister Study. In 2010, Sandler received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development Honor Award, a Bronze Medal team award. She was selected NIEHS DIR Scientist of the Year in 2010. Sandler received an NIH Director's Award in 2011 for her work in developing the GuLF STUDY. She was elected as a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, a member of the American Epidemiological Society, and an alumni member of the Alpha Chapter of the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society. The American College of Epidemiology presented her with its Leadership and Distinguished Service Award and its Leadership Recognition. In 2015, Sandler received the Dr. Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service. She is a past president of the American College of Epidemiology.

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