Arpita Biswas is a CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. Her research focuses on Algorithmic Decision Making and Societal Impact, tackling fairness concerns, resource limitations, and robustness issues. Her broad areas of interest include Algorithmic Game Theory, Optimization, and Machine Learning. Her algorithmic contributions span across a wide range of problems, including fair resource allocation, fairness in machine learning, sequential…
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The aim of my research is to develop statistical methods that enable maximally rigorous and impactful uses of data to answer environmental health questions. In particular, my recent work centers on (1) methods for estimation of the health impacts of complex environmental regulations and quasi-experiments and (2) methods for studying the…
Nishtha is a first year Master’s in Data Science student, at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Prior to this, she completed her B.Tech. in Mathematics & Computing & was working as a Product Manager with Microsoft. She is passionate about leveraging the power of data science for climate change.
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Marissa Childs is a postdoctoral fellow through the Harvard University Center for the Environment mentored by Christopher Golden and Francesca Dominici. Her research broadly seeks to understand how environmental change affects human health by combing data from remote sensing and ground measurements with methods from disease ecology and causal inference. Her current postdoc research is part of the Madagascar Climate-Smart Public Health project. Marissa received her PhD from the Emmett…
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Edgar Castro is a PhD student in the department of environmental health focused on studying disparities in exposure and susceptibility to air pollution, adverse temperatures, and other environmental exposures. Previously, Edgar received a BS in environmental engineering from Northeastern University.
Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou is an environmental engineer and epidemiologist. She holds a Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) from the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Doctor of Science (ScD) in Environmental Health from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, where she also conducted her post-doctoral fellowship. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental…
Dr. Michelle Bell is the Mary E. Pinchot Professor of Environmental Health at the Yale University School of the Environment, with secondary appointments at the Yale School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Division and the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science, Environmental Engineering Program. Her research investigates how human health is affected by atmospheric systems, including air pollution and weather. Other research interests include the health impacts of climate change and environmental justice.
Dr. Robert D. Meade (Rob) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Human and Environmental Physiology Research Unit at the University of Ottawa and is also pursuing a Masters in Public Health (Epidemiology) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research is focused on the health impacts of extreme heat and the development of evidence-based guidance on the use of personal cooling interventions for protecting vulnerable individuals during…
