Dr. Scott Venners

Biography

After completing his bachelor’s degree, Scott joined the United States Peace Corps and taught physics in a public high school in Liberia, West Africa. He then moved to Taiwan for five years, where he taught English, mathematics, and computer science. Scott obtained his Master’s in Public Health from Tulane University, focusing on quantitative epidemiology and biostatistics. He received fellowship support to pursue his Ph.D. at the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research, where he collaborated with Harvard School of Public Health for his dissertation research, utilizing epidemiological methods to investigate the effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution in China. His post-doctoral research at Harvard focused on molecular epidemiological methods to study environmental endocrine disruptors affecting human reproduction. Scott directed a large, prospective study funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to investigate pesticide exposures on fertility and pregnancies in agricultural communities in China. He also won a K01 grant from the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences. In 2005, Scott was appointed Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Population Genetics Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He joined Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Health Sciences as an Assistant Professor in 2008, where he initially focused on biomonitoring applications and molecular epidemiology, and has since dedicated his work to Indigenous health research, employing integrated knowledge translation to produce relevant research outputs. Scott is committed to training new Indigenous scholars in epidemiological research methods.

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