Dr. Bell’s research interests include examining the association of adverse reproductive outcomes with occupational and environmental exposures. She also has a particular interest in the use of mapping techniques to assess residential exposure to environmental contaminants. She is currently co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Charlotte Druschel, on two federally funded studies : 1) the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, a multi-center case control study of birth defects funded by the CDC and 2) the Upstate Kids study, a prospective cohort study of 6000 infants that will assess their developmental milestones through age 3. In addition, Dr. Bell has worked with researchers in the Center for Environmental Health at the New York State Department of Health on their Environmental Health Tracking Program and, through that program, designed a study to assess the relationship between reproductive outcomes and levels of air pollutants. She also collaborates with researchers at the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health and Bassett Research Institute on studies examining exposures and health outcomes of interest for rural populations, with a particular emphasis on farmers and farm workers. Since 2008, she has served has a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Committee on Review of the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides.
