Univ of Pittsburgh
Dept. of Biostatistics, Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology
A410 Crabtree Hall, 130 DeSoto Street
Pittsburgh,
PA
USA
15261
Email:
gmarsh@pitt.edu
Biographical Sketch:
Gary M. Marsh, Ph.D., F.A.C.E. is Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics (cum laude) in 1973 from the University of Pittsburgh and his M.S.(Hyg.) and Ph.D. degrees in Biostatistics in 1974 and 1977 from the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH). Dr. Marsh is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology (F.A.C.E.).
Dr. Marsh has more than 200 publications in the areas of biostatistics, occupational/environmental epidemiology, quantitative risk assessment, statistical computing and health services evaluation. He is the senior author of the computer software package, OCMAP (Occupational Cohort Mortality Analysis Program), which is used as a standard analytic tool by more than 150 domestic and 40 foreign institutions involved in occupational health research. Dr. Marsh is also developer of the Mortality and Population Data System (MPDS), a repository and retrieval system for National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and U.S. Census Bureau data, which is regularly accessed by scores of domestic occupational and environmental health researchers.
Dr. Marsh directs occupational epidemiologic studies to investigate the long-term health effects of exposure to such agents as man-made mineral fibers, formaldehyde, acrylamide, acrylonitrile, arsenic, chloroprene, tungsten carbide, petrochemicals, aromatic amines and pharmaceuticals. In addition, he conducts environmental epidemiologic studies of communities exposed to industrial pollutants or to hazardous waste site materials and is involved in basic methodological research related to longitudinal data analysis and quantitative risk assessment. He also directs programs of biostatistical support for the health outcome research and quality improvement areas of large health maintenance organizations, and for the occupational and environmental health areas of corporations and trade organizations. Dr. Marsh teaches graduate-level courses in applied biostatistics, advanced sampling theory and meta-analysis and directs several masters and doctoral level students. Within the GSPH, he established the Biostatistics Consulting Laboratory and directs the National Center for Health Statistics data sharing program.
Dr. Marsh is an active member of the American College of Epidemiology, the American Statistical Association, the Biometric Society, the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, the Society for Epidemiologic Research, the Society for Occupational and Environmental Health, the International Commission on Occupational Health and British Occupational Health Society. He has served as a charter member of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Safety and Occupational Health Study Section, the National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine Committee to Evaluate the Health Consequences of the Persian Gulf War, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Working Group to evaluate the carcinogenicity of man-made vitreous fibers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science Advisory Board, Asbestos Panel. Dr. Marsh holds other prominent positions on several governmental, academic and corporate scientific advisory boards and committees.