Möhner, Matthias
Liu, Yimeng
Marsh, Gary M.
Article History
Received: 6 September 2018
Accepted: 13 February 2019
First Online: 20 February 2019
Authors’ information
: MM is Head of the unit Statistical methods in epidemiology and biometry at the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), which is a German Federal Departmental Research Institute. As a federal authority it is directly responsible to the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS). It conducts research and development in the field of safety and health at work, promotes the transfer of knowledge into practice, advises policymakers and performs sovereign functions (ExternalRef removed). As part of his work activities, MM act as advisor in several committees in Germany that discuss and provide policy advice on occupational health issues, including the Medical Expert Advisory Board Occupational Diseases, which counsels the BMAS on the scientific prerequisites with regard to new legal occupational diseases. Evaluation of the risk associated with occupational exposure to formaldehyde is a current issue in the latter committee.YL was a PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health and has co-authored earlier r of the NCI cohort directed by GM.GM is Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health. Since the 1980s, he has been involved in epidemiological research on the potential carcinogenicity of formaldehyde, including re-analyses of earlier updates of the NCI formaldehyde cohort and serving as principal investigator of an independent cohort study of workers from one of the NCI study plants.
: This research was deemed exempt from human subjects review by the University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board.
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: GM’s and YL’s work on the current analysis and manuscript was donated, but based on earlier work performed under a sponsored research contract between the University of Pittsburgh and the Research Foundation Health and Environmental Effects, a not-for-profit affiliate of the American Chemistry Council. Otherwise, GM and YL have no competing interests. The funding agency played no role in the design, writing, interpretation and conclusions. MM declares that he has no competing interests. The decision to submit this manuscript for publication is that of the authors.
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