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Jill Baumgartner, PhD

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is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and an Associate Member of the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ School of Environment.Ìý She investigates the impact of air pollution on chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease in North America and in the Tibetan Plateau, China.Ìý She holds a joint PhD in Population Health Sciences and Environment & Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Masters in Population and International Health from Harvard University. Details of Dr. Baumgartner's work may be found .

Jonathan Chevrier, PhD

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is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Health and Epidemiology, and Associate Member of the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ School of Environment and of the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Institute for Health and Social Policy. He studies the impact of common environmental exposures such as pesticides, flame retardants (PBDEs), plastic components (bisphenol A), and industrial by-products (dioxins, metalworking fluids) on child health and development. His work takes place in North America and South Africa.Ìý He holds a doctorate in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master's in Physiology-Endocrinology from Université Laval.Ìý More information on Dr. Chevrier's research may be found .

Alexandra Schmidt, PhD

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is a Full Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health. She is a Bayesian statistician doing research on spatial and spatiotemporal modeling of environmental, ecological and epidemiological problems. A key focus of her current research programme is to develop models for uni- and multivariate spatiotemporal processes that do not require transformation of the data, but rather can be applied to the data on their original scale. Find out more about her research .

Scott Weichenthal, PhD

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Ìýis an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health. He is an environmental epidemiologist working primarily on the chronic health effects of air pollution, indoor air quality and traffic-related health impacts.ÌýÌý In particular, he has recently been conducting studies on the health impacts of ultrafine particles. A notable feature of his work is the potential for a direct/practical application of study results for knowledge transfer and the development of risk management recommendations, of importance for all Canadians.Ìý Details on his research can be found .

Emmanuelle Batisse, MSc

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Emmanuelle is a Master’s student in epidemiology at University of Montreal who is jointly advised by Audrey Smargiassi. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and her main interests are the impacts of air pollution on public health. For her Master’s research project, Emmanuelle investigated the links between industrial emissions of PM2.5 and acute cardiovascular complications in Quebec. She now works as a Research Assistant on a project evaluating the impact of public health interventions.

Stéphane Buteau, PhD

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Stéphane obtained his PhD from Department of Medicine (Division of Experimental Medicine) and the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ School of Environment. He also olds a Master’s degree in Environmental and Occupational Health from the University of Montreal. Before starting his doctorate, Stéphane held an environmental health scientist position at the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec (INSPQ). His main research interests are in environmental epidemiology and toxicology, focusing on the impact of air pollution on human health. Stéphane investigated the acute health effects of ambient air pollution among susceptible individuals. He now works for the Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec. Outside of his research, his interests include playing ice hockey, touchfootball and doing outdoor sports.

Ellison Carter, PhD

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Ellison was a post-doctoral fellow in Energy, Air Pollution, and Health at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment and is now Assistant Professor at the Colorado State University. Ellison earned her Ph.D. and M.S.E. degrees in Civil Engineering through the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering program as an NSF Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Trainee (IGERT) and EPA STAR fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.Ìý Dr. Carter is interested in developing and investigating tools to measure, characterize, and mitigate the impacts of environmental pollution on human health and the environment. Her current research efforts focus on pollution control strategies that reduce human exposure to air pollutants in indoor environments.

Sierra Clarck, MSc

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As an MSc student in Epidemiology, Sierra evaluated the health and environmental benefits of clean cooking stoves and fuels in the Sichuan, China, as well as their uptake and sustained use. Sierra recently graduated from ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ with First Class Honours and Deans Honour List in the Bachelor of Arts program. Her academic background is in geography and geographic information systems, with interest in the environmental and social factors that impact disease risk in vulnerable populations. She previously worked with the Geographic Environmental Epidemiology Lab and the Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change research group. She loves conducting fieldwork and using mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative) study designs when approaching environment and health research questions.

Jonathan Huang, PhD

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Jonathan was a postdoctoral fellow in Epidemiology. He holds a BS in Biochemistry (University of Virginia), an MPH in Community-Oriented Public Health Practice and a PhD in Epidemiology (University of Washington). His interests are in the application of causal inference methods to mechanistic investigations in perinatal and life-course epidemiology as well as in the application of those methods to policy-making. He worked with Dr. Chevrier to investigate the impact of prenatal exposure to insecticides on child growth and infections in the VHEMBE birth cohort. He is now a Research Fellow in Singapore.

Thirumagal Kanagasabai, PhD

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Thirumagal is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology at ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ. She completed her PhD in Health Science at York University in Toronto. The overarching framework of her doctoral research is sleep and cardiometabolic health epidemiology of adults. Within this context, she quantified the mediating effect of dietary and physical activity factors to the relationship between sleep and cardiometabolic risk factors, estimated the associations between objective vs. subject sleep measures as they relate to cardiometabolic health, and quantified the risk of developing cardiometabolic conditions due to changes in sleep habits . She holds a HBSc and MSc in toxicology from the University of Toronto. Thiru’s Postdoctoral Fellowship focuses on environmental risk factors and their associated cardiovascular disease risks. Her research interests include sleep patterns and circadian rhythms, light and environmental exposures, biomarkers of disease and health, human activity patterns and behaviours, and cardiometabolic health outcomes.

Rachel Kohut, MPH

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Rachel is investigating housing policies in northern Quebec. A third year law at ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ, Rachel previously completed a Masters in Public Health at Memorial University, where she honed her interests in remote and rural health, particularly in northern and Arctic communities. She has previously worked with the HIV, Health and Development Team at the Istanbul Regional Hub of the United Nations Development Program, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the International Development Research Centre, and the Assembly of First Nations and the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation. She is a member of HuSArctic: Human Security as a promotional tool for societal security in the Arctic, the Global Health Working Group of Memorial University, and TUAQ: Tromsø-Umea- Arkhangelsk-Queen’s (TUAQ) Network on Gender and Law in the Arctic Region.

Jennifer Murray, MScPH

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Jennifer was a Master’s of Public Health (MScPH) student at ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ who now works for the First Nations Health Authority. Following her graduation from Dartmouth College, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Jen worked as a Presidential Fellow in the Office of the President at Dartmouth. She then worked at The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science on global health programs, including work in Peru, South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania, Honduras, and with the Indian Health Service (US). She is interested in studying the effect of environmental exposures on human health, and how a better understanding of these exposures can improve health equity in Canada and around the world. At ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ, Jen investigated the association between exposure to the insecticide DDT and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among a birth cohort of mother-infant pairs in South Africa. Jen also likes to play tennis, run, ski, bike, travel, and enjoy Montreal.

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Christina Norria, MSc

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Christina Norris was a Master's student in Epidemiology at ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ. Along with an undergraduate degree in biology from ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ, she has worked on conservation projects across Canada and the U.S. that involved field data collection and monitoring of species-at-risk. She is interested in the the ways in which the environment can affect human health, and the intersection of human, wildlife, and environmental health.Ìý For her thesis, she investigated the acute cardiovascular impacts of black carbon exposure during cookingÌý in Karnataka, India. Christina spends as much time as possible outside, hiking, biking, running, and doing field work.

Graydon Snyder, PhD

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Matthew Secrest, MSc

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Matthew Secrest was a Master's student in Epidemiology at ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ. He holds a BS in chemistry and has several years’ experience with chemical research.Ìý His research interests include the environmental determinants of human health in general and the effect of air pollution on health more specifically. His thesis focused on quantifying the benefits of energy interventions on air quality and human health in rural China.