The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Epidemiologic Studies (OES) is concerned with possible linkages between exposures and adverse health effects among groups of DOE workers and offsite populations. OES manages an epidemiologic research program in collaboration with Federal and state public health agencies, and disseminates study results to workers and the public.
Two complementary Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) projects, Populations at Risk to Environmental Pollution (PAREP) and Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource, (CEDR) contribute to the OES mission by providing technical support to outside agencies for the investigation of suspected disease clusters and other health concerns. The PAREP project provides resources for studies of offsite populations, while the CEDR project maintains data on exposures and health effects among individual workers.
Recent PAREP data, including the 1990 Census and TIGER map files, are mostly in a CD-ROM information system directly accessible via the World Wide Web (WWW). Population and health data prior to 1985 are reached via the online Socio-Economic Environmental Demographic Information System (SEEDIS). Many of the PAREP data sets, both on CD-ROM and in SEEDIS, are not publicly available elsewhere.
The PAREP project is within the Biostatistics/CEDR group, one of five Computing Science Research (CSR) programs in the Information and Computing Sciences Division (ICSD) at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL).