EDUCATION

• PhD (Epidemiology), 2011, Columbia University
• MPH (Environmental Health Sciences), 2003, Columbia University
• BS (Biology), 2000, Boston College

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Environmental, molecular, and cancer epidemiology
• Gene-environment interactions on cancer risk
• Arsenic epidemiology

SELECTIED PUBLICATIONS

• Argos M, Kalra T, Pierce B, Chen Y, Islam T, Ahmed A, Hassan R, Parvez F, Graziano J, Rathouz PJ, Ahsan H. A Prospective Study of Arsenic Exposure from Drinking Water and Risk of Skin Lesions in Bangladesh. American Journal of Epidemiology 2011; 174(2):185-94.
• Argos M, Kalra T, Rathouz PJ, Chen Y, Pierce B, Parvez F, Islam T, Ahmed A, Rakibuz-Zaman M, Hasan R, Graziano J, Ahsan H. Arsenic Exposure from Drinking Water, and All-cause and Chronic-disease Mortalities in Bangladesh (HEALS): a prospective cohort study. Lancet 2010; 376(9737): 252-258.
• Argos M, Rathouz PJ, Pierce BL, Kalra T, Chen Y, Parvez F, Slavkovich V, Ahsan H. Dietary B vitamin intakes and urinary total arsenic concentration in the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS) cohort, Bangladesh. European Journal of Nutrition 2010; 49: 473-481.
• Argos M, Kibriya MG, Jasmine F, Hibshoosh H, Ahsan H. Genomewide Scan for Loss of Heterozygosity and Chromosomal Amplification in Breast Carcinoma Using SNP Arrays. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics 2008; 182: 69-74.
• Argos M, Parvez F, Chen Y, Hussain AZMI, Momotaj H, Howe GR, Graziano JH, Ahsan H. Socioeconomic status and risk for arsenic-related skin lesions in Bangladesh. American Journal of Public Health 2007; 97: 825-831.
• Argos M, Kibriya MG, Parvez F, Jasmine F, Rakibuz-Zaman M, Ahsan H. Gene Expression Profiles in Peripheral Lymphocytes by Arsenic Exposure and Skin Lesion Status in a Bangladeshi Population. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 2006; 15: 1367-1375.