Principal Investigator

Rudy Rull, PhD, MPH is the Principal Investigator of the Millennium Cohort Study at the Naval Health Research Center. Dr. Rull received his PhD and MPH in Epidemiology from the University of California, Los Angeles and BA in Environmental Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to military health, his research has focused on the assessment of environmental exposures to metals, pesticides, and other pollutants using biological markers, environmental databases, geographic information systems and mapping technologies, and the effects of these exposures on cancer, respiratory health, and birth defects.

Past Principal Investigators

The Study Staff

Our study staff of epidemiologists, biostatisticians, research psychologists, analysts, programmers and research coordinators are comprised of both military and civilian professionals. The staff is located at the Deployment Health Research Department, Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, California.

The Strategic Board

The Millennium Cohort Team wishes to acknowledge the contributions of the Strategic Board members to the Millennium Cohort Study:

Current Members

George Anderson, MD, MPH
Major General, USAF, MC Ret.

Kelley Brix, MD, MPH
Research and Engineering Directorate
Defense Health Agency

Towanda Street, PhD, MA
Office of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Military Community and Family Policy

Sally Haskell, MD, MS
Women’s Health Services, Veterans Health Administration
Department of Veterans Affairs

Gregory Leskin, PhD
Military and Veteran Families Program
UCLA National Center for Child Traumatic Stress

Joyce Raezer, MA
National Military Family Association (retired)

Joseph Sharpe, Jr., MA
Director of the National Employment and Education Division,
The American Legion

Donald Shell, MD, MA
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs,
Health Services Policy and Oversight

Past Members