Title
Professor of the Graduate School

Department
School of Public Health


Faculty URL
http://sph.berkeley.edu/robert-spear

Email
spear@berkeley.edu

Phone
(925)935-6621


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Research Expertise and Interest
public health, environmental health science

Research Description
Dr. Robert Spear, an engineer by training, did his undergraduate work at Berkeley and received his doctoral degree at Cambridge University. He returned to Berkeley in 1970 to take up a post-doctoral position in this field in the School of Public Health. He was appointed to a faculty position in 1971 and is now Professor of the Graduate School at Berkeley.
Research interests include:
Mathematical modeling of toxicological and infectious processes
Statistical issues in exposure assessment
Environmental determinants of infectious disease transmission.