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Research Interests
- Occupational Health
- Exposure Assessment
- Occupational Noise Exposure & Control
- Non-auditory Effects of Noise
- Occupational Health in Developing Countries
Current Research
- Occupational Noise and Cardiovascular Disease
- Community Noise Exposure, Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease: Joint effects
- Asbestosis in Bangladeshi Shipbreakers
- Radon Exposues in Institutional Residential Facilities
- Measuring Effectiveness of Hearing Conservation Programs
Bridge Graduate Students
- Midori Courtice
Asbestosis in Shipbreakers from Northern Bangladesh
Other Graduate Students
- Wenqi Gan
- Dan Sarkany
Noise, Air Pollution and CVD
- Dave Kodama
Mercury Ingestion: Store bought vs Angled fish
- Musarrat (Rimi) Nahid
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice: Noise and Engineered Noise Controls
Current Courses Taught
- OCCH 502 Chemical and Biological Exposure Measurement
- BRDG 501/601 Research Grant Development
- OCCH 512 Quantitative Methods for the Assessment and Analysis of Exposure Data
Other Courses Taught
- MECH 505 - Noise and Vibration
- OCCH 530 Directed Studies in Occupational Injuries/Applied Occupational Epidemiology
- OCCH 540/640 Research and Practice
- OCCH 595 Seminar Series
Selected
Publications
Sbihi , H, K Teschke, Y McNab, HW Davies, “Determinants of use of Hearing Protection Devices in Canadian lumber mill workers”, Accepted. Ann Occup Hygiene, Jan 2009
Allen, R, Hugh Davies, Martin A. Cohen, Gary Mallach, Joel D. Kaufman, Sara D. Adar. The Spatial Relationship Between Traffic-Generated Air Pollution And Noise In 2 U.S. Cities; Environmental Research, 2009, 109:334-342
Neitzel, R , W Daniell, L Sheppard, HW Davies, N Seixas. “Comparison of perceived and quantitative Measures of occupational noise exposure”, Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 2009; 53:41–54
Davies, HW, K Teschke, S Kennedy, M Hodgson, P Demers “Occupational Noise Exposure and Hearing Protector Use in Canadian Lumber Mills”, J Occup Environ Hygiene 2009, 6: 32 - 41
Davies, HW, K Teschke, S Kennedy, M Hodgson, P Demers, “Retrospective Exposure Assessment of Noise in BC Sawmill”; Occup Environ Med, 2009, 6: 32 - 41
Davies, HW, JJ Vlaanderen, S Henderson, M Brauer “Correlations between Noise and Air pollution Levels Associated with Automobile Traffic”; Occup Environ Med, 2009, 66: 347 - 350
Davies, HW, S Marion, K Teschke, “The impact of hearing conservation programs on incidence of noise-induced hearing loss in Canadian workers”; Am J Indust Med, 2008, 51:923-931
Sbihi, H, HW Davies, P Demers, “Hypertension in noise exposed sawmill workers: a cohort study”, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2008, 65:643-6.
Friesen, MC, HW Davies, A Ostry, K Teschke, P Demers, “Impact of expert versus measurement-based occupational noise exposure estimates on exposure-response relationship”s, International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2008 81:837-44.
Friesen; MC, HW Davies; Kay Teschke; Aleck S Ostry; Clyde Hertzman; Paul A Demers. “Impact of the specificity of the exposure metric on exposure-response relationships”. Epidemiology 2007;18:88-94
van Kempen, E, I van Kamp, P Fischer, HW Davies, D Houthuijs, R Stellato, C Clark and S. Stansfeld. “Noise exposure and children's blood pressure and heart rate: The RANCH-project”. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2006, 63:632-9
Demers, P.A., M. Friesen, HW Davies, C Hertzman, R Hershler, K Teschke Penta/Tetrachlorophenol Exposure Assessment in BC Sawmill Workers. Cancer Causes and Control, 2006, 17:749-758
Friesen MC, YC MacNab, SA Marion, HW Davies, K Teschke, PA Demers. Mixed models and empirical Bayes estimation for retrospective exposure assessment of dust exposures in Canadian sawmills. 2006, Ann Occup Hyg, 50(3):281-288
Clark, C, R Martin E van Kempen, HW Davies, MM Haines, J Head, I Lopez-Barrio, M Matheson, SA Stansfeld. “Exposure-effect relationships between road traffic and aircraft noise exposure and reading comprehension: The RANCH Project” Am J Epidemiology, 2006, 163: 27-37
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Hugh Davies
Associate Professor
BSc. (1992), U Alberta,
MSc. (1996), UBC
Ph.D.(2002), UBC
Certified Industrial Hygienist
School of Environmental Health
College for Interdisciplinary Studies
LPC 360A
Tel: 604.822.6777
Fax: 604.822.9588
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