Steven B. Wing

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gillings School of Global Public Health
Epidemiology
Associate ProfessorAppointed: 1995

Mailing Address

CB#7435, 2101F McGavran-Greenberg Hall
School of Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7435
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (919) 966-7416
Fax: (919) 966-2089
steve_wing@unc.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Epidemiology, 1983.
M.A., Duke University, Sociology, 1980.
B.A., Vassar College, Psychology, 1975.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Environmental Health Standards, Epidemiology, Radiation Effects (Medical), Social Justice, Social Medicine.

Additional Terms:

Environmental Epidemiology, Occupational Epidemiology, Social Justice.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

Portuguese: (Basic, Basic, Basic)

Memberships

American Public Health Association

Honors and Awards

2004, Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award for Outstanding Teaching, Service and Practice, University of North Carolina School of Public Health
2003, Certificate of Honor, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
1997, A Man Called Mathew Award, Concerned Citizens of Tillery and Land Loss Fund
1993-1993, Visiting Professor Fellowship, Brazilian National Research Council
1983, Delta Omega, National Honorary Public Health Society
1981-1983, Pre-doctoral Traineeship, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
1980-1981, Pre-doctoral Taineeship, United States Public Health Service
1978-1980, Pre-doctoral Traineeship, National Institute for General Medical Sciences

Previous Positions

1993, Federal University of Bahia, (Salvador, Brazil), Department of Preventive Medicine, Visiting Professor
1991-1995, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Assistant Professor
1990 University of Ulm, (Germany), Faculty of Theoretical Medicine, Visiting Professor
1985-1991, University of North Carolina, Research Assistant Professor

Funding Received

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Time Related Factors in Radiation-Cancer Dose Response, 7/1/95 to 6/30/97.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Community Structure and Cardiovascular Mortality Trends, 6/1/89 to 5/31/93.
  • National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: Agricultural Dust and Childhood Asthma Symptoms, 2003 to 2005.
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Improving Environmental Health Research Through Dialogue, 2002 to 2007.
  • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: Susceptibility in Occupational Radiation Risks, 2002 to 2005.
  • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: Time-Factors in Exposure Effects Among Uranium Workers, 2002 to 2005.
  • Jesse Ball duPont Fund: Community-Driven Research on Environmental Justice and Landfills in North Carolina, 2002 to 2005.
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Community Health Effects of Industrial Hog Operations, 2001 to 2006.
  • Duke University -- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Work and Health Disparities among Rural Women: Epidemiology Support, 2000 to 2005.
  • Syracuse University -- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease: Short Courses for Environmental Health Research Ethics: North Carolina Component, 2000 to 2006.
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Community Health and Environmental Reawakening, 2000 to 2008.
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Minority Graduate Research Assistant Supplement to Community Health and Environmental Reawakening, 2000 to 2001.
  • Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health: Environmental and Public Health Impacts of Intensive Livestock Operations in the Wake of Flooding from Hurricane Floyd, 2000 to 2000.
  • ). North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services: Rural Health Study, 1998 to 1999.
  • Chancellors Office, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Enabling Community-Based Environmental Research and Education, 1997 to 1998.
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Environmental Justice and Community-Based Prevention/Intervention Research Conference Grant, supplement to Southeast Halifax Environmental Reawakening, 1997 to 1999.
  • Fogerty International Center, National Institutes of Health: Bahia-US Environmental Epidemiology Training and Research, 1996 to 2001.
  • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: Ionizing Radiation and Mortality Among Hanford Workers, 1996 to 2001.
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Southeast Halifax Environmental Reawakening, 1996 to 2000.
  • Berger-Montague: Critical Review of the United States Department of Energy Efforts to Investigate the Human Health Effects of Plutonium, 1996 to 1997.
  • Center for Environmental Studies, John Snow Institute: Epidemiological Studies of the Accident at Three Mile Island, 1994 to 2005.
  • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: Study of Multiple Myeloma Among Workers Exposed to Ionizing Radiation and Other Physical and Chemical Agents, 1993 to 1996.
  • Centers for Disease Control: Geographical Differentials in Stroke Mortality Levels and Trends in the U.S., 1992 to 1993.
  • American Heart Association, North Carolina Affiliate: The Potential Impact of Ill-Defined Mortality on the Decline of Ischemic Heart Disease in the U.S., 1992 to 1993.
  • National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: Minority Graduate Research Assistant Supplement to Community Structure and Cardiovascular Mortality Trends, 1990 to 1992.
  • U.S. Department of Energy: Health and Mortality of Department of Energy Workers, 1987 to 1994.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Study of Multiple Myeloma Among Workers Exposed to Ionizing Radiation and Other Physical and Chemical Agents, 10/1/93 to 3/30/97.

Publications

  • Morland K, Wing S (2006) Obtaining healthy foods within restricted local food environments: An environmental justice issue for communities of color., Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity. (bookchapter)
  • Wing, S. (2006) Environmental justice, science and public health, Essays on the Future of Environmental Health Research: A tribute to Dr. Kenneth Olden., National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (bookchapter)
  • Wing S. (2005) Social responsibility and research ethics in community driven studies of industrialized hog production., Community Collaborative Research in Environmental Health: Studies in Science, Advocacy and Ethics., Oxon, UK, Ashgate (bookchapter)
  • Wing S. (2004) Whose epidemiology, whose health?, Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being., Amityville, NY, Baywood (bookchapter)
  • Farquhar S, Wing S (2002) Methodological and ethical considerations in community-driven environmental justice research: Two case studies from rural North Carolina, Community Based Participatory Research for Health, Jossey-Bass (bookchapter)
  • Loomis D, Wing S (2001) Theories of causation, Epidemiologic Methods for the Study of Infectious Diseases, New York, Oxford University Press (bookchapter)
  • Wing S, Richardson D, Wolf S, Mihlan G, Crawford-Brown D, Wood J, A case control study of multiple myeloma at four nuclear facilities, Annals of Epidemiology, 10(3), 144-53, April 2000 Abstract
  • Wing S, Wolf S, Intensive livestock operations, health, and quality of life among eastern North Carolina residents, Environmental Health Perspectives, 108(3), 233-8, March 2000 Abstract
  • Wing S, Cole D, Grant G, Environmental injustice in North Carolina's hog industry, Environmental Health Perspectives, 108(3), 225-31, March 2000 Abstract
  • St George DM, Wing SB, Lewis DR, Fouling our nest. Geographic and temporal patterns of toxic industrial chemicals released in North Carolina, 1988-1994, North Carolina Medical Journal, 61(1), 396-400, 2000 Abstract
  • Richardson D, Wing S, Watson J, Wolf S, Evaluation of annual external radiation doses at values near minimum detection levels of dosimeters at the Hanford nuclear facility, Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 10(1), 27-35, 2000 Abstract
  • Wing S (2000) Limits of epidemiology, Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine, New York, NY University Press (bookchapter)
  • Richardson D, Wing S, Watson J, Wolf S, Missing annual external radiation dosimetry data among Hanford workers, Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 9(6), 575-85, 1999 Abstract
  • Richardson DB, Wing S, Radiation and mortality of workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: positive associations for doses received at older ages, Environmental Health Perspectives, 107(8), 649-56, August 1999 Abstract
  • Santana VS, Loomis D, Wing S, Bahia-Carolina Program in Environmental and Occupational Health: A North-South partnership for workplace and environmental justice, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 5(3), 218-22, 1999 Abstract
  • Richardson DB, Wing S, Greater sensitivity to ionizing radiation at older age: follow-up of workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through 1990, International Journal of Epidemiology, 28(3), 428-36, June 1999 Abstract
  • Armstrong D, Barnett E, Casper M, Wing S, Community occupational structure, medical and economic resources, and coronary mortality among U.S. blacks and whites, 1980-1988, Annals of Epidemiology, 8(3), 184-91, April 1998 Abstract
  • Richardson DB, Wing S, Methods for investigating age differences in the effects of prolonged exposures, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 33(2), 123-30, February 1998 Abstract
  • Wing S, Whose epidemiology, whose health?, International Journal of Health Services, 28(2), 241-52, 1998 Abstract
  • Viel JF, Wing S, Hoffmann W (1998) Environmental epidemiology, public health advocacy, and policy., Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health, Chichester, England, Wiley & Sons (bookchapter)
  • Wing S, Richardson D, Armstrong D, Crawford-Brown D (1998) A re-analysis of cancer incidence near the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant., Radiation Exposures by Nuclear Facilities: Evidence of the Impact on Health, Berlin, Gesellschaft fur Strahlenschulz (bookchapter)
  • Richardson D, Wing S (1998) Evidence of increasing sensitivity to radiation at older ages among workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Radiation Exposures by Nuclear Facilities: Evidence of the Impact on Health, Berlin, Gesellschaft fur Strahlenschulz (bookchapter)
  • Frome E L, Cragle D L, Watkins J P, Wing S, Shy C M, Tankersley W G, West C M, A mortality study of employees of the nuclear industry in Oak Ridge, Tennessee., Radiation Research, 148(1), 64-80, July 1997
  • Wood J, Richardson D, Wing S, A simple program to create exact person-time data in cohort analyses, International Journal of Epidemiology, 26(2), 395-9, April 1997 Abstract
  • Wing S, Richardson D, Armstrong D, Reply to comments on 'A reevaluation of cancer incidence near the Three Mile Island' [letter, Environmental Health Perspectives, 105(3), 266-8, March 1997 Abstract
  • Wing S, Richardson D, Armstrong D, Crawford-Brown D, A reevaluation of cancer incidence near the Three Mile Island nuclear plant: the collision of evidence and assumptions [see comments], Environmental Health Perspectives, 105(1), 52-7, January 1997 Abstract
  • Armstrong D, Wing S, Tyroler HA, Race differences in estimates of sudden coronary heart disease mortality, 1980-1988: the impact of ill-defined death, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 49(11), 1247-51, November 1996 Abstract
  • Barnett E, Strogatz D, Armstrong D, Wing S, Urbanisation and coronary heart disease mortality among African Americans in the US South, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 50(3), 252-7, June 1996 Abstract
  • Armstrong DL, Wing SB, Tyroler HA, United States mortality from ill-defined causes, 1968-1988: potential effects on heart disease mortality trends, International Journal of Epidemiology, 24(3), 522-7, June 1995 Abstract
  • Casper ML, Wing S, Anda RF, Knowles M, Pollard RA, The shifting stroke belt. Changes in the geographic pattern of stroke mortality in the United States, 1962 to 1988, Stroke, 26(5), 755-60, May 1995 Abstract
  • Wing S, West CM, Wood JL, Tankersley W, Recording of external radiation exposures at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: implications for epidemiological studies, Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 4(1), 83-93, 1994 Abstract
  • Wing S, Limits of epidemiology, Medicine and Global Survival, 1, 74-86, 1994
  • Wing S (1994) Basics of radiation epidemiology, Radiation Health Effects, Seattle, Washington, Hanford Health Information Network (bookchapter)
  • Pearce NE, Matos E, Koivusalo M, Wing S (1994) Industrialization and Health, Occupational Cancer in Developing Countries, Lyon, France, International Agency for Research on Cancer (bookchapter)
  • Wing S, Shy C M, Wood J L, Wolf S, Cragle D L, Tankersley W, Frome E L, Job factors, radiation and cancer mortality at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: follow-up through 1984 [published erratum appears in Am J Ind Med 1993;23(4):673], American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 23(2), 265-79, February 1993
  • Wing S. (1993) A review of recent findings on radiation and mortality at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Neue Bewertung des Strahlenrisikos, Proceedings of the International Society of Radiological Protection, Munich, Medizin Verlag, 217-228 pages (bookchapter)
  • Casper M, Wing S, Strogatz D, Davis C E, Tyroler H A, Antihypertensive treatment and US trends in stroke mortality, 1962 to 1980, American Journal of Public Health, 82(12), 1600-6, December 1992
  • Carter L R, Walton S E, Knowles M K, Wing S, Tyroler H A, Social inequality of stroke mortality among US black populations, 1968 to 1987., Ethnicity and Disease, 2(4), 343-51, 1 Oct 1992
  • Wing S, Barnett E, Casper M, Tyroler H A, Geographic and socioeconomic variation in the onset of decline of coronary heart disease mortality in white women., American Journal of Public Health, 82(2), 204-9, February 1992
  • Casper M, Wing S, Strogatz D, Variation in the magnitude of black-white differences in stroke mortality by community occupational structure, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 45(4), 302-6, December 1991
  • Sorel J E, Heiss G, Tyroler H A, Davis W B, Wing S B, Ragland D R, Black-white differences in blood pressure among participants in NHANES II: the contribution of blood lead, Epidemiology, 2(5), 348-52, September 1991
  • Wing S, Shy C M, Wood J L, Wolf S, Cragle D L, Frome E L, Mortality among workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Evidence of radiation effects in follow-up through 1984 [published errata appear in JAMA 1991 Aug 7;266(5):657 and 1992 Sep 16;268(11):1414], Jama, 265(11), 1397-402, 20 Mar 1991
  • Kotelchuck M, Dodds J, Wing S and Kotch J (1991) Societal trends that affect nutrition status and services for the maternal and child health populations, Call to Action: Better Nutrition for Mothers, Children and Families, Washington, DC, National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (bookchapter)
  • Loomis D, Wing S, Is molecular epidemiology a germ theory for the end of the twentieth century?, International Journal of Epidemiology, 19(1), 1-3, March 1990
  • Wing S, Casper M, Davis W, Hayes C, Riggan W, Tyroler H A, Trends in the geographic inequality of cardiovascular disease mortality in the United States, 1962-1982., Social Science and Medicine, 30(3), 261-6, 1990
  • Wing S. (1989) Trends in society and public health: Looking towards the twenty-first century, Moving Towards the 21st Century: Empowering Nutritionists for Leadership in Public Health. Proceedings of the Continuing Education Conference for the Association of State and Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors and Association of Faculties of G, Chapel Hill, NC, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, 23-34 pages (bookchapter)
  • Wing S, Social inequalities in the decline of coronary mortality (editorial), American Journal of Public Health, 78, 1415-16, 1988
  • Wing S, Dargent P, Casper M, Tyroler HA, Riggan W and Hayes CG, The changing association of community occupational structure and ischemic heart disease mortality in the United States, The Lancet, II, 1067-70, 1987
  • Wing S, Dargent P, Casper M, Tyroler HA, Riggan W and Hayes CG, The changing association of community occupational structure and ischemic heart disease mortality in the United States, The Lancet, ii, 1067-70, 1987

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