Stella Koutros

Koutros completed a M.P.H. and Ph.D. in epidemiology from Yale School of Public Health and Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.[1] She completed her doctoral work through the Yale-National Cancer Institute (NCI) partnership training program in cancer epidemiology, conducting research in the NCI occupational and environmental epidemiology branch (OEEB).[1] Her 2008 dissertation was titled, A prospective follow-up study of pesticide exposure, dietary intakes, and genetic polymorphisms and the risk of prostate cancer.[2] Tongzhang Zheng was her doctoral advisor.[2] In 2008, upon completion of her doctorate, she became a fellow in OEEB.[1]

Koutros was appointed to the position of tenure-track investigator in 2015.[1] Her research involves the design and conduct of epidemiological investigations to evaluate occupational exposures as risk factors for cancer.[1] She employs exposure assessment methods and molecular studies within highly exposed populations to identify the etiology and clarify the biological mechanisms underlying chemical-induced carcinogenesis.[1] Areas of interest include exposures occurring in the workplace and those contributing to the etiology of bladder cancer.[1]