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Water and Health - Long Island Study Team

  • Principal Investigators - LI

    • Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences); Co-Director, Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology (CPPEE)

      Dr. Deziel obtained a Master’s of Industrial Hygiene and Doctorate in Environmental Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research is focused on applying statistical models, biomonitoring techniques, and environmental measurements to provide comprehensive and quantitative assessments of exposure to traditional and emerging environmental contaminants in population-based studies. Her research uses a combination of large, administrative datasets and detailed community-focused studies to advance understanding of environmental exposures to chemicals, particularly carcinogens and endocrine disruptors. This research also serves to illuminate exposure mechanisms underlying associations between environmental chemicals and disease, thereby informing more effective policies to reduce...
    • Susan Dwight Bliss Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Senior Research Scientist, Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Environmental Health Sciences

      Research Interests
      • Epidemiology
      • Environment and Public Health
      • Environmental Exposure
      • Environmental Health
      • Environmental Pollution
      • Asthma
      • Air Pollution
      • Air Pollution, Indoor
      • Public Health
      Dr. Brian Leaderer is the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health and Professor Emeritus of the Yale School of the Environment. He is also a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology (the Yale CPPEE, or the "Center"), which he co-directed for 18 years.  In his role as the Deputy Dean at the Yale School of Public Health for over 14 years (during which he was also Interim Dean for 2 years), he oversaw Faculty Affairs including the Appointments and Promotion Committee and Faculty Mentoring Program. He has served on several Committees and Review Panels (NRC, EPA, HEI, etc.).  Dr. Leaderer's research interests, resulting in over 300 publications, are interdisciplinary in nature with a focus on assessing exposures...
  • Co-Investigators - LI

    • Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)

      Research Interests
      • Environmental Exposure
      • Biostatistics
      • Mass Spectrometry
      • Metabolomics
      Caroline H. Johnson, PhD, is a Tenured Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Yale School of Public Health. She graduated from Imperial College London in 2009 with a PhD in Analytical Chemistry. Since then she has held postdoctoral and staff appointments at the National Cancer Institute and The Scripps Research Institute. Dr. Johnson's research uses mass spectrometry-based metabolomics to understand the role of metabolites in human health. Her primary research interest is to investigate the relationship between genetic and environmental influences (diet, hormones and microbiome) in colon cancer. She is also examining exposures during pregnancy.
    • Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)

      Research Interests
      • Pediatric Obesity
      • Models, Statistical
      • Pharmacoepidemiology
      • Pregnancy
      • Child Development
      • Cerebral Palsy
      • Causality
      • Acetaminophen
      • Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
      • Autism Spectrum Disorder
      • Endocrine Disruptors
      • Environmental Pollutants
      • Epilepsy
      Dr. Liew is an environmental and perinatal epidemiologist and a research methodologist. A core focus of his work is understanding how exposures that occur during critical and vulnerable periods of development may shape disease risks and influence health outcomes throughout our life span. Dr. Liew is leading numerous studies with funding from the NIH to evaluate whether fetal exposures to endocrine disrupting compounds and/or neurotoxicants could harm fetal brain development leading to neurological disorders or impaired neuropsychological function in childhood and young adulthood. He is also interested in methodological research, especially the development of novel study designs and analytical techniques that could help us better address biases in observational studies or research using “real-world” data.
    • Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

      Research Interests
      • Air Pollution
      • Exposome
      • Environmental Exposure
      • Mass Spectrometry
      Dr. Pollitt’s research explores the human exposome through characterisation of environmental and biological samples using analytical and mass spectrometry (MS) techniques. Her group has developed various mass spectrometry (ICP-MS, LC-MS and GC-MS) to measure exposure to complex mixtures of trace elements and organic compounds. She has applied these exposure assessment methods in numerous in epidemiological studies. Visit our lab website: pollittlab.weebly.com
    • Associate Professor of Biostatistics

      Research Interests
      • Biostatistics
      • Algorithms
      • Eye Diseases
      • Disorders of Environmental Origin
      • Pregnancy Complications
      • Probability
      • Statistical Distributions
      • Statistics as Topic
      • Stochastic Processes
      • Virus Diseases
      Joshua Warren is an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from North Carolina State University in 2011. Dr. Warren’s research focuses on statistical methods in public health with an emphasis on environmental health problems. Much of his work involves introducing spatial and spatiotemporal models in the Bayesian setting to learn more about associations between environmental exposures, such as air pollution, and various health outcomes including preterm birth, low birth weight, and congenital anomalies. He also has interest in developing and applying spatiotemporal models in collaborative settings such as epidemiology, geography, nutrition, and glaucoma research. His theoretical and methodological interests include multiple topics in spatial/spatiotemporal...
  • Field and Data Research Team - LI

    • Clare Loughlin is an accomplished environmental health scientist and facilitator with over six years of experience driving science communications and research across public, private, and government sectors. She holds a Master of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences from Yale University, where she distinguished herself as a Stolwijk fellow, a Center on Climate Change and Public Health scholar, and a Superfund Research Center trainee. Clare is a unifying force in the workplace and environmental health sector, and uses her relationship management skills and attention to detail to proactively foster collaboration, camaraderie, and efficiency. Her specialty is facilitating meaningful dialogue to advance clean drinking water and environmental health for all. In 2019, she completed a Fulbright grant in Malaysian palm oil community. Clare draws inspiration...
    • YCCCH Fellow: Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare, Climate Change and Health

      Meet the Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology's (CPPEE) Xuejuan Ning.
    • Research Data Coordinator, School of Public Health; Research Data Coordinator, School of Public Health

      Keli Sorrentino has 25 years of experience working on public health field studies. Her background ranges from conducting interviews in the field to coordinating and supervising field work to all aspects of data management. She will support this project in several ways including field work design and data management.
  • Coordinator

    • Coordinator School of Public Health

      Over the past two decades, Livia (Lia) has worked closely with multiple principal investigators, co-investigators, collaborators, research staff, students, post-doctoral associates, and business office personnel supporting complex grant and contract management processes. She has expertise in reviewing, submitting, and completing IRB applications, modifications, and continuing reviews for projects involving human subjects research, for both the Internal Review Board (IRB) at Yale and external IRBs in several States in the US. Her primary goal is to offer the highest level of support for faculty in their research projects to further Yale's mission to preserve as well as to add to the body of human knowledge and expand our understanding of complicated scientific questions while seeking out resources and pathways to find their answers.