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Zev Ross is president of ZevRoss Spatial Analysis a company that specializes in spatial and environmental statistics. Zev received a master's degree in natural resources with a minor in biological statistics from Cornell University. He has worked with the California Department of Health Services (DHS) to evaluate the influence of geographic patterns on breast cancer statistical models. He has also been contracted by DHS to develop air pollutant exposure assessment models. Currently he is working with the University of Southern California, University of Ottawa, and New York University on a project to investigate the relation between chronic exposure to ambient air pollution and mortality in New York City.
Zev has also consulted for several departments and programs at Cornell University. He worked with the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences on a spatial analysis of arsenic contamination in Bangladesh and is working with the Sprecher Institute for Comparative Cancer Research on a project to measure cancer incidence in companion animals in New York State. In 2003, Zev wrote the introduction to the special edition of The Ribbon newsletter devoted to geographic information systems (GIS), a type of spatial analysis, and breast cancer. In the summer of 2004, Zev helped BCERF revise and update Fact Sheet # 3, "Understanding Breast Cancer Rates."
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