Mark Mendell, Ph.D., is currently a Staff Scientist/Epidemiologist in the Indoor Environment Department. Dr. Mendell is on the editorial board of the journal Indoor Air and a member of the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences. He was formerly at the Centers for Disease Control/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, where he was head of the National Occupational Research Agenda Team on Indoor Environments. Dr. Mendell holds a BA from Cornell University; a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon; and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health. Dr. Mendell has worked for 20 years in the field of environmental epidemiology, focused on health effects related to indoor environments in buildings. His work includes field research to help understand relationships between specific factors and conditions in buildings and health effects in occupants, and critical reviews of the literature that summarize what we know, how well we know it, and what we do not know, about specific environment/health relationships in buildings. His research interests include the causes and prevention of building-related symptoms (also called sick building syndrome); health risks associated with buildings, ventilation systems, moisture, and microbial growth; effects of indoor environments in schools on health and performance of students, and effects of indoor chemical exposures in residences on asthma and allergies.
This publications database is an ongoing project, and not all Division publications are represented here yet.
Publications
1999
Mendell, Mark J., William J. Fisk, Marty R. Petersen, Cynthia J. Hines, David Faulkner, James A. Deddens, Maxia Dong, Avima M. Ruder, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Mark F. Boeniger. "
Effects on Occupants of Enhanced Particle Filtration in a Non-Problem Office Environment: A Double-Blind Crossover Intervention Study."
The American Journal of Industrial Medicine 36, no. Supplement 1 (1999): 55-57.
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Mendell, Mark J., William J. Fisk, Marty R. Petersen, Maxia Dong, Cynthia J. Hines, David Faulkner, James A. Deddens, Avima M. Ruder, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Mark F. Boeniger. Enhanced Particle Filtration in a Non-problem Office Building: Summary of Findings from a Double Blind Crossover Intervention Study In
Indoor Air’99. Vol. 4. Proceedings of Indoor Air’99 4. London, England, 1999.
Mendell, Mark J., William J. Fisk, Maxia Dong, M. Petersen, Cynthia J. Hines, David Faulkner, James A. Deddens, Avima M. Ruder, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Mark F. Boeniger. "
Enhanced particle filtration in a non-problem office environment: Preliminary results from a double-blind crossover intervention study."
American Journal of Industrial Medicine Supplement 36, no. Supplement 1 (1999): 55-57.
1998
Fisk, William J., David Faulkner, Douglas P. Sullivan, Maxia Dong, Carole Dabrowski, James Thomas J. Jr., Mark J. Mendell, Cynthia J. Hines, Avima M. Ruder, and Mark F. Boeniger. The healthy building intervention study: Objectives, methods and results of Selected Environment Measurements., 1998.
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1996
Mendell, Mark J., William J. Fisk, James A. Deddens, William G. Seavey, Allan H. Smith, Daniel F. Smith, Alfred T. Hodgson, Joan M. Daisey, and Lynn R. Goldman. "
Elevated symptom prevalence associated with ventilation type in office buildings: Findings from the California Healthy Building Study."
Epidemiology 7, no. 6 (1996): 583-589.
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