Ian Buller, Ph.D., M.A.

Ian Buller, Ph.D., M.A.

Epidemiologist

DLH Corporation

Disclaimer: All content is my own and does not represent my employer

I am an Epidemiologist at Social and Scientific Systems, Inc. a division of DLH Corporation.

I was a Postdoctoral Cancer Prevention Fellow in the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at the National Cancer Institute (Preceptor: Rena Jones, PhD, MS) working within the Occupational and Enviornmental Epidemiology Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, part of the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health. I received a Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences at Emory University (Advisor: Lance Waller, PhD) after completing a concurrent B.A./M.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder (Advisor: Pieter Johnson, PhD).

My research has been published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, Ecology, Environmental Research, International Journal of Environmental Research and Health, International Journal of Health Geographics, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Interests

  • (Geo)spatial Statistics
  • Environmental Epidemiology
  • Cancer Etiology
  • Infectious Disease Ecology & Surveillance
  • Open-Source Software Development

Education

  • PhD in Environmental Health Sciences, 2019

    Emory University

  • BA/MA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2013

    University of Colorado at Boulder

Recent Posts

New Publication in the Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics

I co-authored an article in the Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics entitled “A Shared Latent Process Model to Correct for Preferential Sampling in Disease Surveillance Systems” led by Brian Conroy.

Accessible geospatial socio-economic metrics

I gave an invited talk at the National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Prevention Multi-Cancer Detection Working Group entitled “Accessible geospatial socio-economic metrics.” The talk was an introduction to my open-source R package on CRAN named ndi that I developed as a postdoctoral Cancer Prevention Fellow.

New Publication in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute

I co-authored an article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute entitled “Ethylene oxide emissions and incident breast cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a U.S. cohort” led by Rena Jones.