Nick Ma is an environmental health student focused on using advanced statistical methods to solve public health problems.
Heather McBrien
Heather McBrien is a research assistant at Columbia University, working on climate disaster-related exposures and health . Prior to her work at Columbia, she graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in statistics.
Luca Merlo
Luca obtained his PhD in Methodological Statistics at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) with a thesis on quantile regression models for the analysis of multivariate data. During his PhD he spent a study period at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom) and at the University of Pisa (Italy). He began working as a researcher in statistics at the European University of Rome (Italy) in September 2022 and he is…
Lauren Mock
Lauren recently graduated from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with her master’s degree in Biostatistics. Prior to graduate school, she studied Earth & Environmental Science at Boston University, where she developed a passion for atmospheric science. Lauren’s previous research includes estimating mixing height over wildfire smoke plumes with NASA and quantifying excess mortality during heat waves at Mass. General Hospital Biostatistics.
Qiyue Nie
Qiyue Nie is a Master of Science student in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard. Qiyue received a B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from Peking University. His research interests include health effect of air pollution, climate change, air pollution exposure assessment and causal models.
Jinia Sarkar
Jinia Sarkar is a current Environmental Health Master of Science student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests include impacts of extreme weather on human health and social epidemiology. She is excited to work with Dr. Antonella Zanobetti to investigate the impacts of hurricane events in the U.S.
Heejun Shin
Heejun Shin is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in statistics at the University of Florida, under the mentorship of Joseph Antonelli. His research focuses on causal inference, Bayesian modeling, and treatment effect heterogeneity, particularly in the context of analyzing the health impacts of environmental exposures.
Jennifer Stowell
Dr. Stowell is a Research Scientist in Center for Climate and Health at Boston University. She utilizes spatial and epidemiologic methods to examine the adverse effects of climate change on human health. Her continuing research is focused on expanding our understanding of extreme heat, prescribed fire, and wildfire smoke exposure on pregnancy and birth outcomes.
Mauricio Tec
Mauricio Tec is a Ph.D. student in Statistics at the University of Texas at Austin. His main research interest is developing new AI and statistical methods for public policy, healthcare, and scientific applications. He considers major challenges like causality, sequential decisions, uncertainty quantification, and modeling complex structured data. Thus, he focuses mainly on deep and reinforcement learning, Bayesian statistics, and causal inference techniques. He believes that AI can revolutionize scientific…
Sofia Vega
Sofia Vega is a third year Ph.D. Candidate in Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Sofia has interests in Environmental Statistics and Causal Inference and is excited to work with Dr. Nethery to estimate the health impacts of wildfire smoke exposure in the western United States.