UIC SPH Professor’s Research Featured in Scientific American

The largest workplace health study ever conducted, led by principal investigator UIC School of Public Health Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Nurtan Esmen, PhD, is featured in the March 2008 issue of Scientific American. The research team, including Steven Lacey, PhD, Roger Hancock and Kathleen Kennedy (Project manager), examines records of nearly 250,000 people who worked at Pratt & Whitney’s jet engine manufacturing plants in Connecticut over the past 50 years to search for brain cancer cases among employees and try to determine if exposure to workplace toxins account for higher-than-expected mortality rates of brain cancer and other causes of death.