Beate Ritz
Telephone: (310) 206-7458
E-mail:britz@ucla.edu
Associate Professor (Department of Epidemiology), joined the School of Public Health in 1993. She received her M.D. (1983) from the Board of Health in Hamburg, Germany, Doctorate in medical sociology (1987) from the University of Hamburg, and M.P.H. (1993) and Ph.D. (1995) in epidemiology from UCLA.
Dr. Ritz's major discipline is Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology. Her major research interests are occupational and environmental health issues, radiation and cancer, air pollution and birth outcomes (such as low birth weight, pre-term birth and malformations); pesticide health effects (such as adult pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease) and the health effects of reclaimed water use. She teaches classes in occupational and environmental epidemiology and on policy issues in this field.
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