Marty Kanarek, PhD, MPH

Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences in the School of Medicine and Public Health and a joint appointment with the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Vice Chair and Director of the Graduate Program Department of Population Health Sciences, and Chair of the Undergraduate Program, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Email: mkanarek@wisc.edu

Biography:

Marty Kanarek is Professor of Population Health Sciences and Environmental Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of California Berkeley and his M.P.H. in Environmental Health from the University of Minnesota. He worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1972-78 before coming to Wisconsin. He currently serves as Chair of the Graduate Program in Population Health and Vice Chair of the Department and Chair of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Certificate Program for Undergraduates. His research interests include environmental epidemiology -- indoor and outdoor air pollution, lead poisoning prevention, PCB and mercury contaminants in fish, drinking water and cancer, environmental tracking and other studies of the human health effects of pollution. (Download CV)

Affiliations/Associations:

Fellow, American College of Epidemiology, Society for Epidemiologic Research, International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, NIH Study Section and EPA Peer Reviewer.

Recent Honors/Awards:

Recipient of both a Collaborative Research Grant (Children’s Blood Lead Levels and Educational Outcome) and a Community Award (Dane County Clean Air Coalition) from the Medical Education and Research Committee (MERC) of the SMPH.

Select Publications:

Kanarek, M.S., Conforti, P.M., Jackson, L.A., Cooper, R.C., and Murchio, J.C. Asbestos in drinking water and cancer incidence in the San Francisco Bay Area. American Journal of Epidemiology, 112:54-72, 1980.

Kanarek, M.S., Conforti, P.M., and Jackson, L.A. Chrysotile asbestos in drinking water from asbestos-cement pipe. Environmental Science and Technology, 15:923-925, 1981.

Caplenas, N.R, Kanarek, M.S. and Dufour, A.P. Source and extent of Klebsiella pneumoniae in the paper industry. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 42:779-785, 1981.

Young, T.B., Kanarek, M.S., and Tsiatis, A.A. Epidemiologic study of drinking water chlorination and Wisconsin female cancer mortality. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 67:1191-1198, 1981.

Dally, K.A. Hanrahan, L.P. Woodbury, M.A., and Kanarek, M.S. Formaldehyde exposure in non-occupational environments. Archives of Environmental Health, 36:277-284, 1981.

Kanarek, M.S. and Young, T.B. Drinking water treatment and risk of cancer death in Wisconsin. Environmental Health Perspectives, 46:179-186, 1982.

Quackenboss, J.J., Kanarek, M.S., Spengler, J.D., and Letz, R. Personal monitoring for nitrogen dioxide exposure: methodological considerations for a community study. Environment International, 8:249-258, 198

Hanrahan, L.P., Dally, K.A., Anderson, H.A., Kanarek, M.S. and Rankin, J. Formaldehyde vapor in mobile homes: a cross-sectional survey of concentrations and irritant effects. American Journal of Public Health, 74:1026-1027, 1983.

Caplenas, N.R. and Kanarek, M.S. Thermotolerant non-fecal source Klebsiella pneumoniae: Validity of the fecal coliform test in recreational waters. American Journal of Public Health, 74:1273-1275, 1984.

Hanrahan, L.P., Anderson, H.A., Dally, K.A., Eckmann, A.D., and Kanarek, M.S. Formaldehyde concentrations in Wisconsin mobile homes. Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, 34:1164-1167, 1985.

Quackenboss, J.J., Spengler, J.D., Kanarek, M.S., Letz, R. and Duffy, C.P. Personal exposure to nitrogen dioxide: relationship to indoor/outdoor air quality and activity patterns. Environmental Science and Technology, 20:775-783, 1986.

Dar, E., Kanarek, M.S., Anderson, M.S., and Sonzogni, W. Fish consumption and reproductive outcomes in Green Bay, WI. Environmental Research 59:189-201, 1992.

Peterson, D.E., Kanarek, M.S., Kuykendall, M.A., Diedrich, H.A., Anderson, H.A., Remington, P.L., and Sheffy, T.B. Fish consumption patterns and blood mercury levels in Wisconsin Chippewa Indians. Archives of Environmental Health 49: 58-63, 1994.

Anderson, H., Falk C., Fiore, B., Hanrahan, L., Humphrey, H.E., Kanarek, M.S. et al.Consortium for the health assessment of Great Lakes sport fish consumption. Toxicology and Industrial Health 12:369-373, 1996.

Falk, C., Hanrahan, L., Anderson, H.A., Kanarek, M.S., Draheim, L., Needham, L,Patterson, D, Jr. and the Great Lakes Consortium. Body burden levels of dioxin, furans and pcbs among frequent consumers of Great Lakes sport fish. Environmental Research A80:S19-S25, 1999.

T Taha, T., Kanarek, M.S., Schultz, B.D., Murphy, A. A prospective study of the effectiveness of low-cost household paint abatement to reduce blood lead levels in children. Environmental Research A 81:334-338, 1999.

Schubert, C., Knobeloch, L., Kanarek, M.S., Anderson, H.A. Public response to elevated nitrate in drinking water wells in Wisconsin. Archives of Environmental Health 54:242-247, 1999.

Anderson HA, Hanrahan, LP, Smith, A, Draheim, L, Kanarek, M., Olsen J. The role of sport-fish consumption advisories in mercury risk communication: a 1998-1999 12 state survey of women 18-45. Environmental Research 95:315-24, 2004.

Weisskopf, MG, Anderson, HA, Hanrahan, LP, Kanarek, MS, Falk, CM, Steenport, DM, and Draheim, LA. Maternal exposure to Great Lakes sport-caught fish and dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethylene, but not polychlorinated biphenyls, is associated with reduced birth weight. Environmental Research 97: 149-162, 2005.

Powell, MC and Kanarek, MS. Nanomaterial Health Effects—Part 1: Background and Current Knowledge. Wisconsin Medical
Journal. 105, No.2: 14-18, 2006.

Powell, MC and Kanarek, MS. Nanomaterial Health Effects--Part 2:Uncertainties and Recommendations for the Future. Wisconsin Medical Journal: 105(3): 18-23, 2006.

McElroy, JA, Gangon, RE, Newcomb, PA, Kanarek, MS, Anderson, HA, Vanden Brook, J, Trentham-Dietz, and Remington, PL. Risk of breast cancer for women living in rural areas from adult exposure to atrazine from well water in Wisconsin. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology: 17: 207-214 2007.

Kanarek, MS. Nanomaterial health effects: Part 3: Conclusion: Hazardous Issues and the Precautionary Principle. Wisconsin Medical Journal: 106(1): 16-19, 2007.

Kanarek, N. and Kanarek, MS. Smoking Cessation in Clinical Trials and Public Health Studies: A Research Ethical Imperative. Annals of Epidemiology 17(12):983-988, 2007.

Kanarek, MS and Anderson, HA. Environmental Epidemiology: Looking to the Future. Annals of Epidemiology 17 (11):911-913, 2007.

McElroy, JA, Trentham-Dietz, A, Gangnon, RE, Hampton, JM, Bersch, AJ, Kanarek, MS, and Newcomb, PA. Nitrogen-nitrate exposure from drinking water and colorectal cancer risk for rural women in Wisconsin, USA. Journal of Water and Health Vol 6 No. 3 pp. 399-409, 2008.

Courses Taught:

PHS/Env. St. 471: Introduction to Environmental Health
PHS/Env. St. 502: Air Pollution and Human Health,
Env. St. 900: Community Environmental Forum
PHS 820: Graduate Research Seminar

Contact Information:

Address: Department of Population Health Sciences, Rm. 687 WARF, 610 N. Walnut Street, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI 53726

Phone: 608-263-1626
Fax: 608-263-2820
Email: mkanarek@wisc.edu