Peggy Reynolds, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Senior Research Scientist Cancer Prevention Institute of California
Consulting Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Dept. of Health Research & Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine Member - Stanford Cancer Institute
2001 Center Street, Suite 700
Berkeley, California 94704 E-mail:Peggy.Reynolds@CPIC.org Phone: 510-608-5180 Fax: 510-666-0693
Research Interests:
Risk factors for childhood cancers
Environmental risk factors for breast cancer
Application of GIS tools in environmental epidemiology
Dr. Reynolds' primary research interests have focused on social and environmental influences in the etiology of cancer, with a current emphasis on childhood malignancies and breast cancer. She has conducted a number of occupational epidemiology studies including a study of malignant melanoma among Lawrence Livermore Laboratory employees, cancer incidence among California teachers, and cancer incidence among flight attendants.
Dr. Reynolds was a co-investigator for a multicenter study which has become one of the most influential human health studies on the risk of lung cancer from secondhand smoke. The landmark publications from this study have figured prominently in national and international assessments of secondhand smoke as a cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers, and have provided some of the critical underpinnings for the dramatic changes in public policy over the last decade regulating smoking in the workplace. Dr. Reynolds and her research team are further pursuing the role of secondhand smoke and breast cancer in a more detailed assessment of reported lifetime exposures in a large prospective study of California women.
She is one of the founding members of the California Teachers Study, a large ongoing prospective study of 133,479 women established in 1995. Currently, in one of the first studies of non-cancer outcomes in the CTS, Dr. Reynolds is working with a group of air pollution experts looking at air quality data and cardiopulmonary mortality among the teachers.
One of Dr. Reynolds' primary research interests continues to be risk factors for childhood malignancies. She has directed a series of statewide studies designed to evaluate the etiologic influence of both birth characteristics and environmental factors. In 1995, Dr. Reynolds worked closely with Dr. Patricia Buffler at UC Berkeley to develop the largest and most comprehensive case-control study to date of risk factors for childhood leukemia.
