Stella Koutros is an American cancer epidemiologist who researches the occupational exposures as risk factors for cancer. She is an investigator in the occupational and environmental epidemiology branch at the

National Cancer Institute The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ...

Life

Koutros completed a M.P.H. and Ph.D. in epidemiology from

Yale School of Public Health The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) was founded in 1915 by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow and is one of the oldest public health masters programs in the United States. YSPH is both a department (established in 1915) within the school of medic ...

and

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the graduate school of Yale University. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest graduate school in North America, and was the first North American graduate school to confer a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D ...

. She completed her doctoral work through the Yale-

(NCI) partnership training program in cancer epidemiology, conducting research in the NCI occupational and environmental epidemiology branch (OEEB). Her 2008 dissertation was titled, ''A prospective follow-up study of pesticide exposure, dietary intakes, and genetic polymorphisms and the risk of prostate cancer''. Tongzhang Zheng was her doctoral advisor. In 2008, upon completion of her doctorate, she became a fellow in OEEB. Koutros was appointed to the position of tenure-track investigator in 2015. Her research involves the design and conduct of epidemiological investigations to evaluate occupational exposures as risk factors for cancer. She employs exposure assessment methods and molecular studies within highly exposed populations to identify the etiology and clarify the biological mechanisms underlying chemical-induced carcinogenesis. Areas of interest include exposures occurring in the workplace and those contributing to the etiology of bladder cancer.

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