The Mission of the Harvard-Michigan/Michigan-Harvard Metals Epidemiology Research Group (MERG) is to gain new insights into the impacts of exposure to potentially toxic metals that are of critical importance to public health and medicine by applying multi-disciplinary and novel methods of exposure assessment, genetics, nutrition, psychosocial factors and clinical measurements in epidemiologic studies of human populations around the world.
MERG is co-Directed by Robert O. Wright, M.D., M.P.H. (primary affiliation: Children’s Hospital, Boston and Harvard University; secondary affiliation: University of Michigan) and Howard Hu, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D. (primary affiliation: University of Michigan; secondary affiliation: Harvard University) and consists of investigators and trainees affiliated with both institutions from a wide variety of disciplines, including epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical medicine (internal medicine, pediatrics, neurology, obstetrics), neuroscience, nutrition, psychology, social science, chemistry, physics, genetics, engineering, and others, as well as a dedicated support staff.
This website provides information on some of the members of our research team, links to their biographical sketches, summaries of our on-going research projects (mostly as abstracts from the NIH, EPA, and other grant proposals that currently fund them), lists of our publications, assorted information for individuals participating in our Boston-based studies, and links to other websites with information of related interest.
