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Mark Mendell, Ph.D., is currently a Staff Scientist/Epidemiologist in the Indoor
Environment Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Dr.
Mendell was formerly at the Centers for Disease Control/National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, where he was head of the National Occupational Research Agenda
Team on Indoor Environments. Dr. Mendell is on the editorial board of the journal
Indoor Air and a member of the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences. He
holds a BA from Cornell University in Science, Technology, and Society; a Bachelor
of Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon; and a PhD in epidemiology
from the University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health. Dr. Mendell
has worked for 20 years in the field of environmental epidemiology, focused on health
effects related to indoor environments in buildings. His work includes field research
to help understand relationships between specific factors and conditions in buildings
and health effects in occupants, and critical reviews of the literature that summarize
what we know, how well we know it, and what we do not know, about specific environment/health
relationships in buildings. His research interests include the causes and prevention
of building-related symptoms (also called sick building syndrome); health risks
associated with buildings, ventilation systems, moisture, and microbial growth;
effects of indoor environments in schools on health and performance of students,
and effects of indoor chemical exposures in residences on asthma and allergies.
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