Occupational & Population Exposure Cohort Studies

How can Exponent's cohort studies add value to your organization?

Cohort studies can be powerful tools for measuring exposure and health effects over time in both population-wide and occupational cohorts. Such studies can examine rare exposures, multiple exposures, and multiple potential effects of exposures, allowing for a better understanding of temporality and more accurate calculation of risk. Cohort studies can also help your organization:

Provide data to inform regulations and exposure limits
Improve public health
Build better relationships with communities
Offer health safeguards
Understand issues driving disputes in litigation or insurance claims

For companies, cohort studies examining worker safety and health can help improve operational processes and product stewardship, adding business value. Without the right experience and expertise, however, cohort studies can be time consuming, expensive, and prone to bias from a variety of factors, including missing data, loss to follow-up, exposure misclassification, and selection bias.

Leveraging experience and expertise across disciplines, Exponent's team has streamlined processes and protocols to perform these studies efficiently across all study stages, including cohort identification, data collection, data analysis, and reporting. Our knowledge and training in conducting human research, data privacy and security, and confidentiality help ensure applicable regulations and guidelines are met and research is conducted according to ethical standards. Our specialized methodologies help mitigate challenges, like bias, confounding factors, and the impact of the healthy worker effect, to provide reliable, high-quality analysis that can support evidence-based decision-making.

Exponent performs time- and cost-efficient cohort studies to give you the data-driven insights you need.

Our expert analyses include standardized mortality ratios; trend tests; time-series, survival analysis, regression, and Cox proportional hazards models; and extensive data interpretation. We examine the strength of associations and conduct additional analyses — such as case-cohort and nested case-control studies or regression analyses — if needed.
In preparation for reporting, we research the plausibility, consistency, specificity, and potential biological mechanisms of observed associations, compiling our detailed findings into technical reports, or presentations. Our work product can be used to support internal decision-making or to provide the basis for public domain disclosures, including contributions to the peer-reviewed literature.
Our rigorous cohort mortality studies contribute to a safer and more productive workforce by helping companies:
- Analyze and mitigate health risks related to operations, facilities, and products
- Follow employee health over the long-term, generating metrics to measure the success of safety efforts
- Reach their product stewardship goals throughout the product lifecycle
- Use long-term worker health study results to improve community health

Our Capabilities Are Unparalleled

Our multidisciplinary approach to cohort studies combines experts from several specialties — including epidemiologists, exposure assessment professionals, biostatisticians, data scientists, and public health experts — who are experienced in database design and sophisticated analysis techniques.

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Experts

Our global and comprehensive expertise across industries gives us a deep understanding of current challenges, best industry practices, and the implications of emerging technologies.