LORANN STALLONES

Dr. Stallones is a Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Psychology at Colorado State University. She is also the Director of the Colorado Injury Control research Center. Her research interests are primarily related to agricultural safety and health.

She is currently studying the relationship between pesticides and mental health (depressive symptoms and neurobehavioral symptoms), pesticides and safety practices on farms, adolescent farm work, fatigue and injuries, and pesticide exposures among migrant and seasonal farm workers. She has also studied the relationship between congenital anomalies and pesticide exposure, birth weight and pesticide exposures, head injuries among Hispanic farm workers, cancer among Hispanic farm workers, farm work related injuries among women and men, farm work injuries among children, musculoskeletal injuries among farmers, suicide among farmers, and respiratory symptoms among farmers.

Dr. Stallones was a member of the Epidemiology Committee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute pre-doctoral fellowship panel (1996, 1998, 1999) and Chair of the Committee (2000, 2001). She was on the first panel convened for the Vietnam Education Foundation Fellowship Program, hosted by the National Academy of Sciences (2003). She has served on numerous grant review panels for the CDC/ NIOSH, and CDC/NCIPC and was a regular study section member of the Injury Research Grant Review Committee (1991-1995). She has reviewed grants for the British Columbia Health Research Foundation, Health Canada, and the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation. She served APHA as a member of the Epidemiology Section Council (1986-1990); on the Action Board (1989-1994); and on the Joint Policy Committee (1994). She was elected Secretary-Treasurer for Society of Epidemiologic Research (1990-1993). She was elected President of the National Association of Injury Control Research Centers (1998-1999). She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health and the Journal of Agromedicine.