Leslie London

School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Associate Director of the Occupational and Environmental Health Research Unit and Health Sciences Faculty Portfolio Manager for Transformation and Equity at the University of Cape Town.

Qualifications: MB ChB (medical doctor), 1983; BSc Hons (epidemiology), 1987; Diploma in Occupational Health, 1989; Doctorate in Public Health, 1995; Masters in Public Health Medicine, 1996. Member of the College of Public Health Medicine and Occupational Medicine sub-specialty.

Memberships: Member International Congress of Occupational Health (ICOH) Pesticides Sub-committee and Scientific Committee member for ICOH Neurobehavioral congresses, 1999 and 2002; Elected to the Collegium Ramazzini, 2004; National Research Foundation Rated Research (C1) by the South African National Research Foundation; Advisory Group for the Epidemiology of Pesticide Poisoning Project, International Programme for Chemical Safety (IPCS), WHO; Project Coordinator for Action on Pesticides within the SIDA/SADC Programme on Work and Health in Southern Africa; Theme Coordinator for Health Rights for the Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET); Member of the Advisory Council to Physicians for Human Rights, USA since 2003; Coordinator of the Ethics Subcommittee of the South African Society for Occupational Medicine; Takemi Fellow and Fullbright Research Scholar, Harvard2002; Recognition award by the Society for Occupational and Environmental Health for Pesticide Research, Bethesda, July 2002.

Research Interests: Neurotoxicity of chemicals, and particularly pesticides, and the environment; Farm workers’ occupational and environmental health; Substance abuse amongst South African farm workers; Chemical hazard communication; Human rights and social justice in the environmental health context.

Acknowledgements: Members of the Unit who assist me with making evaluations for Faculty of 1000: Aqiel Dalvie, Andrea Rother, Mohamed Jeebhay, Jim te Water Naude.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

: Public Health & Epidemiology > Occupational & Environmental Medicine (14 November 2005 - 22 April 2008)

All recent recommendations

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  Comparative developmental neurotoxicity of organophosphate insecticides: effects on brain development are separable from systemic toxicity.
  Recommended by Leslie London
  
• 3.0
  Environmental exposure assessment of pesticides in farmworker homes.
  Recommended by Leslie London
  
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  Farmer perceptions and pesticide use practices in vegetable production in Ghana.
  Recommended by Leslie London
  
• 3.0
  Organophosphate pesticide exposure and neurobehavioral performance in agricultural and non-agricultural Hispanic workers.
  Recommended by Leslie London
  
• 3.0
  Workplace, household, and personal predictors of pesticide exposure for farmworkers.
  Recommended by Leslie London
  
• 6.0
  Impact of prenatal chlorpyrifos exposure on neurodevelopment in the first 3 years of life among inner-city children.
  Recommended by Leslie London
  
• 3.0
  Pesticides and Parkinson's disease--is there a link?
  Recommended by Leslie London
  Dissent by Miquel Porta
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  Chlorpyrifos exerts opposing effects on axonal and dendritic growth in primary neuronal cultures.
  Recommended by Leslie London
  
• 6.0
  In utero exposure to dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) and neurodevelopment among young Mexican American children.
  Recommended by Leslie London
  
• 3.2
  Serum DDT, age at menarche, and abnormal menstrual cycle length.
  Recommended by Gayle Windham, Leslie London
  
• 6.0
  Post-offer, pre-placement testing in industry.
  Recommended by Leslie London
  
• 3.0
  Lower back disorders among forklift operators: an emerging occupational health problem?
  Recommended by Leslie London
  
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  Participatory Action Research: A Protective Research Design
  Recommended by Leslie London