Scholarly Interests
- Risk Assessment
- Occupational Epidemiology
- Exposure Assessment
Her research interests include investigating the multi-factorial contributors to early mortality in occupational cohorts by integrating qualitative and quantitative information about the environment, physiological burden, and exposure modeling.
Dr. Sembajwe has extensive experience in occupational and environmental epidemiology, having worked across many industries such as construction, meatpacking, retail and transportation.
Dr. Sembajwe's research interests include the multifactorial contributors to early mortality in occupational cohorts. Her work assesses qualitative and quantitative information about the environment, physiological burden and exposure modeling.
Dr. Sembajwe's active studies include: employee biomonitoring for occupational antineoplastic drug exposure, funded by The Council for Technology Adoption and Innovative Process Promotion in Massachusetts; social exposure, manager attitudes and work organization in health care, integrating subjective and objective biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and beryllium-related disease: a case-control study of U.S. Department of Energy workers, funded by NIOSH.
Her research interests include investigating the multi-factorial contributors to early mortality in occupational cohorts by integrating qualitative and quantitative information about the environment, physiological burden, and exposure modeling with multilevel analysis.
Projects
- Reaching the Poorest Children with Nutrition and WASH in Urban settings: Implementation Science Priorities in East Africa
- WHO/ILO Joint Methodology for Estimating Work-Related Burden of Disease and Injury
