Shelley Harris
Scientist
Shelley Harris first became interested in occupational and environmental health while travelling in India and Jamaica as part of her undergraduate minor in International Agriculture, where poor working conditions led to exacerbated risk for serious acute illness due to environmental and occupational exposures. Now focusing on chronic disease in Canada and the United States, Shelley has a distinct appreciation for the challenges that exist when quantifying small, long-term exposures linked with cancer and other chronic diseases, and has centred her work on improving measurement of occupational and environmental exposures for determining disease risk. Shelley adds rigor and immense field-specific knowledge to the OCRC team, attracting both students and collaborating researchers to the Centre.
Key Appointments
- Scientist, Prevention, Screening & Cancer Control, Cancer Care Ontario
- Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Education:
- B.Sc. (Environmental Biology and International Agriculture), University of Guelph (1988)
- M.Sc. (Environmental Toxicology), University of Guelph (1991)
- Ph.D. (Epidemiology), University of Toronto (1999)
OCRC Projects
- North American Pooled Project: pesticides, agricultural exposures, and cancer
- Exposures to emerging environmental contaminants and risk of breast cancer in young women: A case-control study using biomarkers of exposure
- Cross-Canada study of pesticides and select cancers: New analyses
- Ontario uranium miner cohort: Linkage with national mortality and cancer incidence files
- Occupational exposure to diesel and gasoline engine emissions and the incidence of colorectal and bladder cancer in Canadian men
Publications
- Prostate cancer surveillance by occupation and industry: the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC)
- Prostate cancer in firefighting and police work: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies
- Pesticide exposures and the risk of multiple myeloma in men: An analysis of the North American Pooled Project
- Bladder cancer and occupational exposure to diesel and gasoline engine emissions among Canadian men
- Workplace exposure to diesel and gasoline engine exhausts and the risk of colorectal cancer in Canadian men
- Occupational exposure to magnetic fields and breast cancer among Canadian men
- Occupational exposure to crystalline silica and the risk of lung cancer in Canadian men
- Exposures to multiple pesticides and the risk of Hodgkin lymphoma in Canadian men
- Multiple pesticide exposures and the risk of multiple myeloma in Canadian men
- Priority issues in occupational cancer research: Ontario stakeholder perspectives
- Exposure to multiple pesticides and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in men from six Canadian provinces
Other Publication
Related Activities
- Chair, Environmental and Occupational Working Group for the Ontario Health Study (OHS)
- Member, National Occupational and Environmental Advisory Group for the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project
- Member, Environmental Health Working Group, Division of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
- National Uranium Miners Working Group member (collaboration with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission)
