Areas of Expertise

Dr. David Goldsmith (2018) on railroad exposures and health effects

Focus Areas

  • Novel coronavirus

  • Occupational/environmental epidemiology

  • Health hazards of silica, silicosis, lung cancer, and other diseases

  • Environmental and community fracking sand emissions

  • Mothers’ drug use and birth defects

  • Diesel exhaust

  • Hormone replacement therapy

  • Arts, crafts, and ceramic hazards

  • Health effects of pesticides

  • Many industrial cancer risks, including solvents, wood dusts, quartz, and  benzene

  • Pulmonary and auto-immune diseases

  • Naturally-occurring asbestos and asbestos in construction

  • Respiratory and solvent hazards for railroad workers

  • Reconstruction of toxic exposure histories

  • California’s Proposition 65

Example: Airborne toxic exposures

Example: Airborne toxic exposures

Research Interests

  • Novel coronavirus implications

  • Silica and “dusty trades” exposures, including mining, foundry work

  • Asbestos exposure in construction and railroad jobs

  • Understanding causation from  legal and public health contexts

  • Veterans exposure and health risks

  • Native Americans and environmental health

  • Airborne toxic exposures

  • Diesel exhaust hazards

  • Glass and foundry production hazards

  • Pesticides hazards

  • Agricultural worker exposures

  • Residential compared to workplace hazards

  • Disease disparities among minority workers

  • Environmental mold exposure

  • Paints and solvents

  • Fiberglass and mineral fibers

  • Wood dust exposure