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 […]
Molly Lawrence
Molly Lawrence, a 2015 Masters in Public Health graduate from the BU School of Public Health, is serving as the IOC’s annual Boston Summer Fellow. Working with City of Boston Mayor Martin Walsh‘s Office of New Urban Mechanics, Lawrence focused on civic innovation and improving city services.
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 […]
Ethan Mascoop
Ethan Mascoop, MPH is an Adjunct Clinical Instructor of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. Ethan was a former Health Department Director for the town of Framingham, MA. He currently works as an Independent Consultant for large institutions and Boards of Health in Massachusetts. He is also a consultant and supplemental […]
Donald Keith McInnes
Keith McInnes conducts research on access to and engagement in health care services for hard to reach, vulnerable populations. Current BU School of Public Health projects include assessing the use of mobile technology to increase chronic disease self-management for persons experiencing homelessness. He has taught a course on the impact of health information technologies on […]
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 […]
Elaine O. Nsoesie, Ph.D., M.S.
Elaine O. Nsoesie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. She is an internationally recognized data scientist and a leading voice on the use of data and technology to advance health equity. She is a Data Science Faculty Fellow and was a Founding Faculty […]