Jonathan Borak

Summary

Affiliation: Yale University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Mortality disparities in Appalachia: reassessment of major risk factors
    Jonathan Borak
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 54:146-56. 2012
  2. ncbi Five classic articles in public health
    Jonathan Borak
    Epidemiology and Public Heath, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8034, USA
    Yale J Biol Med 83:43-5. 2010
  3. ncbi Methyl methacrylate and respiratory sensitization: a critical review
    Jonathan Borak
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 41:230-68. 2011
  4. ncbi Use of beryllium lymphocyte proliferation testing for screening of asymptomatic individuals: an evidence-based assessment
    Jonathan Borak
    Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 48:937-47. 2006
  5. ncbi Risks of brain tumors in rubber workers: a metaanalysis
    Jonathan Borak
    Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, 234 Church Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 47:294-8. 2005
  6. ncbi Iodine-deficient vegetarians: a hypothetical perchlorate-susceptible population?
    Cheryl Fields
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
    Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 42:37-46. 2005
  7. ncbi Seafood arsenic: implications for human risk assessment
    Jonathan Borak
    Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
    Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 47:204-12. 2007
  8. ncbi Studies of self-pollution in diesel school buses: methodological issues
    Jonathan Borak
    Yale University Epidemiology and Public Health and Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    J Occup Environ Hyg 4:660-8. 2007
  9. ncbi Hormesis: implications for cancer risk assessment
    Jonathan Borak
    Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, 234 Church Street 1100, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
    Dose Response 3:443-51. 2005

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Publications9

  1. ncbi Mortality disparities in Appalachia: reassessment of major risk factors
    Jonathan Borak
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 54:146-56. 2012
    ..To determine the predictive value of coal mining and other risk factors for explaining disproportionately high mortality rates across Appalachia...
  2. ncbi Five classic articles in public health
    Jonathan Borak
    Epidemiology and Public Heath, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8034, USA
    Yale J Biol Med 83:43-5. 2010
    In this brief review, Dr. Jonathan Borak comments on five seminal papers that helped shape the fields of epidemiology and public health...
  3. ncbi Methyl methacrylate and respiratory sensitization: a critical review
    Jonathan Borak
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 41:230-68. 2011
    ..The weight of evidence, both experimental and observational, argues that MMA is not a respiratory sensitizer...
  4. ncbi Use of beryllium lymphocyte proliferation testing for screening of asymptomatic individuals: an evidence-based assessment
    Jonathan Borak
    Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 48:937-47. 2006
    ..We reviewed published data describing use of beryllium lymphocyte proliferation testing (BeLPT) to determine the appropriateness of BeLPT for screening asymptomatic individuals...
  5. ncbi Risks of brain tumors in rubber workers: a metaanalysis
    Jonathan Borak
    Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, 234 Church Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 47:294-8. 2005
    ..To better understand whether rubber industry workers suffer increased risks of brain tumor, a concern that has persisted for over 40 years despite numerous well-conducted studies...
  6. ncbi Iodine-deficient vegetarians: a hypothetical perchlorate-susceptible population?
    Cheryl Fields
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
    Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 42:37-46. 2005
    ..Of more general concern is whether the 10-fold default uncertainty factor is needed for intraspecies (i.e., within human) variability to protect such hypothetical susceptible sub-populations...
  7. ncbi Seafood arsenic: implications for human risk assessment
    Jonathan Borak
    Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
    Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 47:204-12. 2007
    ....
  8. ncbi Studies of self-pollution in diesel school buses: methodological issues
    Jonathan Borak
    Yale University Epidemiology and Public Health and Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    J Occup Environ Hyg 4:660-8. 2007
    ..Although definitive data are still lacking, these studies suggest that currently available control technologies can nearly eliminate particulate self-pollution inside diesel school buses...
  9. ncbi Hormesis: implications for cancer risk assessment
    Jonathan Borak
    Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, 234 Church Street 1100, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
    Dose Response 3:443-51. 2005
    ..From the perspectives of cancer risk assessment, the greatest informational value of hormesis may be that it provokes mechanistic studies intended to explain why hormesis occurs...