Patricia Fabian

M. Patricia Fabian is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Associate Director at the Institute for Global Sustainability. She founded the Sustainable Built Environment Lab which researches environmental health disparities and interventions in the built environment, with a focus on sustainability, climate resilience, and actionable research. She is co-principal investigator in the Consortium for […]

Leila Heidari

Leila Heidari graduated with a PhD from the Department of Environmental Health in Fall 2023. She received an interdisciplinary bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina in biology, psychology, public health, and environmental studies. She completed her Master’s of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public […]

Kipruto Kirwa

Urban H Interests: Heat, Health, Housing Professor Kipruto Kirwa is an environmental epidemiologist who applies techniques from environmental health, epidemiology, and statistical modeling to understand better how environmental factors affect human health, and how those effects can be mitigated. His research seeks to improve the quantification of air pollutant exposures, identify population groups most at risk for […]

Kevin Lane

Urban H Interests: Heat, Health, Housing Dr. Lane’s research focuses on air pollution, the built environment, urbanization, and the impacts of climate change on health in local, national, and international settings. His expertise in big-data and spatial research has led to developing novel methods integrating geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing data and time-activity algorithms […]

Jessica Leibler

Jessica Leilber’s research focuses on environmental exposures experienced by disadvantaged populations in the U.S., including agricultural workers and the homeless. Her work has two central themes: environmental transmission of pathogens through food systems, and environmental exposures experienced by the urban poor in the U.S. Leibler is currently leading a study of antibiotic resistant bacterial carriage […]

Jonathan Levy

Dr. Levy is Chair of the Department of Environmental Health. His research centers on urban environmental exposure and health risk modeling, with an emphasis on spatiotemporal exposure patterns and related environmental justice issues. Recent and ongoing research topics include spatial patterns of air pollution in near-airport communities, the cardiovascular health effects of aviation-related noise, the […]

Chad Milando

Chad’s research focuses on developing and using computational tools and analyses to investigate trends and sources of air pollution exposure, with a specific focus on vulnerable populations. His current research at Boston University focuses on building airflow simulation and cumulative risk assessment among children with asthma, as part of the ASTHMA project.

Amruta Nori-Sarma

Amruta Nori-Sarma is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Population Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Environmental Health Department at Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Nori-Sarma studies the relationship between environmental exposures associated with climate change and health outcomes in vulnerable […]

Megan T. Sandel

Megan Sandel, MD, is a professor of pediatrics at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine as well as a professor of environmental health at the Boston University School of Public Health. She has held both of these positions for the last eight years, but has been working with the university since 2002, first as […]