Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
School of Public Health
Division of Epidemiology
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
m_bates@berkeley.edu
510-643-5998 Fax: 510-504-5424
http://sph.berkeley.edu/faculty/bates.html
 
Current Research Interests
• Health effects of indoor smoke exposure in developing countries
• Cancer in fire fighters
• Health effects of chronic exposure to hydrogen sulfide
• Investigation of exposure to persistent organochlorine compounds
• Effects of mercury exposures from dental amalgams
 
Key Publications
• Pokhrel AK, Smith KR, Khalakdina A, Deuja A, Bates MN. Case-control study of indoor cooking smoke exposure and cataract in Nepal and India. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2005; 34:702-708.
• Bates MN, Garrett N, Shoemack P. Investigation of health effects of hydrogen sulfide from a geothermal source. Archives of Environmental Health 2002; 57:405-411.
• Bates MN, Fawcett J, Garrett N, Arnold R, Pearce N, Woodward A. Is testicular cancer an occupational disease of fire fighters? American J Ind Med 2001, 40:263-70.
• Bates MN, Buckland SJ, Garrett N, Ellis H, Needham LL, Patterson Jr DG, Turner WE, Russell DG. Persistent organochlorines in the serum of the non-occupationally exposed New Zealand population. Chemosphere 2004; 54:1431-1443.
• Bates MN, Rey OA, Biggs ML, Hopenhayn C, Moore LE, Kalman D, Steinmaus C, Smith AH. Case-control study of bladder cancer and exposure to arsenic in Argentina. American J Epidemiol 2004; 159:381-9.
• Bates MN, Fawcett J, Garrett N, Cutress T, Kjellstrom T. Health effects of dental amalgam exposure: a retrospective cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2004; 33:894-901.
 
Teaching
• Health, Environment, and Development Program (UCB)
• Epidemiology Master's Seminar (UCB)