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James A. Merchant, M.D., Dr.PH.

Professor and Dean, College of Public Health

Email: james-merchant@uiowa.edu
Phone: (319) 384-5452
EHSRC Role(s): Center Associate Director
  Co-Director, Environmental Lung Disease Research Cluster

Dr. Merchant is a nationally recognized expert on public health policy. His research interests are focused on the clinical and epidemiological side of rural and environmental health. Among these are rural health outcome, and rural and public health policy, occupational medicine practice,occupational lung disease epidemiology, and childhood asthma epidemiology and prevention,

He was also is instrumental in developing the UI's Public Health Initiative (PHI), which includes the formation of a School of Public Health. Dr. Merchant was appointed as the first dean of the University of Iowa College of Public Health in July, 1999.

Recent Publications

  1. Heederik D, Sigsgaard T, Thorne PS, Kline JN, Avery R, Bonlokke JH, Chrischilles EA, Dosman JA, Duchaine C, Kirkhorn SR, Kulhankova K, Merchant JA. Health effects of airborne exposures from concentrated animal feeding operations. Environ Health Perspect. 2007 Feb;115(2):298-302. Epub 2006 Nov 14.
  2. Kohatsu ND, Tsai R, Young T, Vangilder R, Burmeister LF, Stromquist AM, Merchant JA. Sleep duration and body mass index in a rural population. Arch Intern Med. 2006 Sep 18;166(16):1701-5.
  3. Sanderson WT, Madsen MD, Rautiainen R, Kelly KM, Zwerling C, Taylor CD, Reynolds SJ, Stromquist AM, Burmeister LF, Merchant JA. Tractor overturn concerns in Iowa: perspectives from the Keokuk county rural health study. J Agric Saf Health. 2006 Feb;12(1):71-81.
  4. Myers KP, Olsen CW, Setterquist SF, Capuano AW, Donham KJ, Thacker EL, Merchant JA, Gray GC. Are swine workers in the United States at increased risk of infection with zoonotic influenza virus? Clin Infect Dis. 2006 Jan 1;42(1):14-20. Epub 2005 Nov 22.
  5. Flamme GA, Mudipalli VR, Reynolds SJ, Kelly KM, Stromquist AM, Zwerling C, Burmeister LF, Peng SC, Merchant JA. Prevalence of hearing impairment in a rural midwestern cohort: estimates from the Keokuk county rural health study, 1994 to 1998. Ear Hear. 2005 Jun;26(3):350-60.
  6. Peek-Asa C, Zwerling C, Young T, Stromquist AM, Burmeister LF, Merchant JA. A population based study of reporting patterns and characteristics of men who abuse their female partners. Inj Prev. 2005 Jun;11(3):180-5.
  7. LeVan TD, Von Essen S, Romberger DJ, Lambert GP, Martinez FD, Vasquez MM, Merchant JA. Polymorphisms in the CD14 gene associated with pulmonary function in farmers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2005 Apr 1;171(7):773-9. Epub 2004 Dec 10.
  8. Merchant JA, Naleway AL, Svendsen ER, Kelly KM, Burmeister LF, Stromquist AM, Taylor CD, Thorne PS, Reynolds SJ, Sanderson WT, Chrischilles EA. Asthma and farm exposures in a cohort of rural Iowa children. Environ Health Perspect. 2005 Mar;113(3):350-6.
  9. Lambert GP, Spurzem JR, Romberger DJ, Wyatt TA, Lyden E, Stromquist AM, Merchant JA, Von Essen S. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha hyper-responsiveness to endotoxin in whole blood is associated with chronic bronchitis in farmers. J Agromedicine. 2005;10(1):39-44.

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