Technical Publications in Professional Journals and Reports
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Dr. Rao has published over 100 technical articles  journal articles in professional peer-reviewed journals, white papers, technology assessment reviews, book chapters, technical publications in conference proceedings, and specialized technical reports.

All publications cover core areas of expertise in pharmacology, biomedical toxicology, public health risk assessment, data analytics, biomedical decision systems, and health informatics.  

Several publications of Dr. Rao have elicited wide international reponse.  For example, reporting on the broad international response received for Dr. Rao's work on the dioxin risk assessment model, Science Application International Corporaton's SAIC's Environmental Bulletin wrote, "authors have received favorable response and request for information from academia and environmental organizations in 18 Countries."

Similarly, US Environmental Protection Agency wrote on the prestigious AAAS-EPA Environmental Science and Engineering Fellowship Program in its website and cited Dr. Rao's work as one among the three success stories of this program. 

EPA wrote "Examples of success stories include: Steven Mercurio's "Comparison of Field Analyses and Regulation of Atrazine Use: Key Factors Impacting Local Aquatic Systems Missed by Simulations"; Joseph Helble's "Report of the EPA Reassessment of 2,3,7,8 Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin"; and Venkat Rao's " Logistic Regression of Inhalation Toxicities of Perchloroethylene--Application in Noncancer Risk Assessment."EPA and AAAS have sponsored the Environmental Science and Engineering Fellowship Program since 1981 to assist in the identification and evaluation of long-term environmental issues, by observing the processes involved in environmental decision making, while providing technical expertise to various Agency offices.