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Dr. Sterling teaches courses in environmental and occupational health which include Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Hazard Recognition and Evaluation, Managerial Environmental Health, Health Risk Analysis and Exposure Assessment Methods. His research interests pertain to health risk and exposure assessment methodologies, and for the past fifteen years he has primarily applied his work to children’s health. He is the PI for a school-based implementation initiative of ‘Asthma 411’ to reduce morbidity and absenteeism due to asthma. This is one component of a larger CDC funded multi-institutional grant for implementing methods to “Control Asthma in St. Louis’. Dr. Sterling is also the PI for a project linking air pollution measures in St. Louis with hospital data for evaluation of health impacts. And he is the Co-PI for an exposure and health investigation in a mining town in Peru, specifically evaluating the impact of a lead smelter on the health of the residents and potential impact on the Mantaro River Valley. He is reviewer for a number of environmental and occupational health journals and is a member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienist, the International Society’s of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology.

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PhD - University of Texas, School of Public Health

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