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Timothy K. Takaro

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Timothy K. Takaro
Clinical Professor
Email: ttakaro@sfu.ca


Expertise: Clean Air, Clean Water, Sustainable Communities, Chemical hazards, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Infectious diseases, Policy, Pollution, Population Health, Population Health Initiative
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About

Dr. Takaro is a physician-scientist trained at the University of Washington, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program. His work is directed primarily toward determining if linkages exist between occupational or environmental exposures and disease and finding public health based preventive solutions where such hazards exist. Research interests are in gene-environment interactions in immunologically-based lung disease and fibrosis, indoor-air hazards, surveillance and field use of biomarkers for medical surveillance and risk assessment with mixed exposures. His practice includes nuclear weapons workers with beryllium and other pulmonary exposures, and children and adults with asthma and other chemically related illness.

In March 2015, Dr. Takaro was awarded with the President’s Award for Leadership in Sustainability at Simon Fraser University.

Clinical Professor

Dr. Takaro is a physician-scientist trained at the University of Washington, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program. His work is directed primarily toward determining if linkages exist between occupational or environmental exposures and disease and finding public health based preventive solutions where such hazards exist. Research interests are in gene-environment interactions in immunologically-based lung disease and fibrosis, indoor-air hazards, surveillance and field use of biomarkers for medical surveillance and risk assessment with mixed exposures. His practice includes nuclear weapons workers with beryllium and other pulmonary exposures, and children and adults with asthma and other chemically related illness.

In March 2015, Dr. Takaro was awarded with the President’s Award for Leadership in Sustainability at Simon Fraser University.

Research Interests

Dr. Takaro's primary research areas focus on disease susceptibility factors in environmental and occupational health, particularly inflammatory lung conditions, including asthma, chronic beryllium disease and asbestosis. His approach as a researcher and physician has been to try to link laboratory biomarker innovations with public health practice including community-based interventions. Over the past several years Dr. Takaro has been investigating human health effects of climate change and adaptive capacity with a focus on potable water.

 

Mentorship

Not available to mentor new students in autumn 2020.

DEOHS Students Mentored

Long-term Health Consequences of Incarceration as a Prisoner of War
Stephen Hunt | MPH, Occupational Medicine (Occ Med) | 2005 | View
Is GSTM1 Related to Pulmonary Fibrosis in Asbestos Exposed Workers?
Austin Summer | MPH, Occupational Medicine (Occ Med) | 2004 | View
Comparison of Fungal Exposure Methods, Using Ergosterol Concentrations, Viable and Non-viable Fungal Spore Counts and Questionnaire Based Exposure Assessments, As Used in the Seattle Healthy Homes Projects
Leah Mickelson | MS, Industrial Hygiene & Safety (IH&S) - No longer offered | 2003 | View

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Research

Research Interests: 

Disease, susceptibility factors, environmental, occupational health, inflammatory lung conditions, asthma, chronic beryllium, asbestosis, approach researcher physician try link laboratory biomarker innovations public practice community-based interventions

More Information

  • http://www.fhs.sfu.ca/portal_memberdata/timt

    http://www.fhs.sfu.ca/research/docs/CHILDSum711.pdf

    http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/chronic/asthma/resource…

Teaching Interests

Dr. Takaro teaches environmental and occupational health including population variability in susceptibility to environmental hazards, health effects of environmental change, mixed exposures, medical surveillance for occupational and environmental illness and globalization and occupational and environmental health.

Contact information

ttakaro@sfu.ca

Institution
Simon Fraser University
BLU 11518
Burnaby
BC
Canada
V5A-1S6

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