Debbie Perez
Debbie Perez graduated from the Boston University School of Public Health with an MPH concentrating in Epidemiology. Her public health interests include using research strategies to address health issues by using epidemiological and social behavioral methods as well as using statistical analysis to conduct precise and valid social epidemiology to dismantle harmful social norms and […]
Julia R. Raifman
Julia Raifman, ScD, SM conducts research on how health and social polices shape population health and health disparities. She received an Early Stage Urban Research Award from the IOC in 2019.
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 […]
Sylvia Shangani
Urban H Interests: Health/Mental Health, Housing Sylvia Shangani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. She is also a visiting research scientist at Yale University School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her primary research is focused on HIV prevention […]
Kathryn Thompson
Urban H Interests: Mental Health/Health, Housing Dr. Thompson finds dynamic and methodologically rigorous ways to collect, analyze, and convey her research and results as an interdisciplinary health services researcher. Dr. Thompson’s research employs tools from health services research and population health science to demonstrate how macrolevel and microlevel health systems are determinants of health inequities. […]
Michael R. Ulrich
Michael R. Ulrich is an Associate Professor of Health Law, Ethics, & Human Rights at Boston University’s School of Public Health and School of Law. His research focuses on the intersection of public health, constitutional law, bioethics, and social justice, with an emphasis on the role of law in the health outcomes of marginalized and […]
Erica Walker
Erica Walker was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The School of Public Health. She received an Early Stage Urban Research Award from the IOC in 2019.
Monica Wang
Dr. Wang is an Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an Associate Director of Narrative at the BU Center for Antiracist Research. Dr. Wang is nationally recognized as […]
Gregory Wellenius
Gregory Wellenius is a Professor on Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and Director of the new BUSPH Center for Climate and Health. He is an environmental epidemiologist committed to reducing the adverse health impacts of continued climate change through research, training, and engagement. Dr. Wellenius also teaches an introductory […]
Mary Willis
Urban H Interests: Health/Mental Health Mary D. Willis, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health. Her expertise lies in environmental epidemiology, spatial exposure assessment, and applied data science. Much of her work also leverages econometric-based causal inference methods. She is particularly interested in […]