Faculty

Nutritional Epidemiology: Development of interventions that will help individuals avoid excessive weight gain.

Defining the impact of environmental toxicants on maternal and child health, with a focus on persistent organic pollutants (PCBs and PFAS), metals, and their mixtures, and immune system development and function.

Cancer and Aging: Improvement of health outcomes for older adults with cancer; Polypharmacy and use of high-risk medications in older adults with cancer; Treatment decision-making, including chemotherapy dosing decisions, treatment tolerability, and efficacy of cancer therapeutics.

Cardiovascular, respiratory, and pregnancy health effects of exposure to environmental agents, including ambient air pollution; accountability studies.

Epidemiology of Aging: Physical and mental health in later life, mechanisms of vulnerability and resilience, population health determinants, issues in measurement and estimation, complex systems analysis

Cancer-related neuropsychological and psychosocial sequelae, their underlying mechanisms, and effective interventions in adolescent and young adult cancer survivors; Accelerated physiologic and biologic aging as an underlying molecular mechanism by which cancer-related sequelae arise and exploiting those pathways to identify potential interventions among high-risk subgroups.

Environmental and nutritional influences on cognitive and neurodevelopmental outcomes.