Dr. Laura Beane Freeman is a research fellow in the Occupational and Environmental
Epidemiology Branch in the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. She received
her Ph.D. in epidemiology in 2003, at which time she joined NCI as a postdoctoral fellow in the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program. Dr. Beane Freeman is interested in occupational and
environmental causes of cancer and has conducted investigations among pesticide applicators
exposed to various chemicals to try to understand potential associations with cancer. In 2007, she was named co-Principal Investigator of the Agricultural Health Study.