Sofia Vega

PhD Student
Biostatistics

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.

Jialin Xu

Master's Student
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Jialin Xu is a master’s student in Department of Environmental Health, T.H. Chan School of Public Health. So far, her research experience has been focused on air pollution, heavy metals and their health effects. She is interested in analyzing nationwide datasets and more than happy to join the wonderful team of NSAPH.

Raphael Kim

PhD Student
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Raphael is a PhD Student in the Dept of Biostatistics at Harvard. His research interests include causal inference and sequential decision making problems.

Nishtha Sardana

Data Science Intern

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.

Edgar Castro

PhD Student
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.

Robert Meade

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…

Vivian Do

PhD Student
Columbia University, Department of Environmental Health Sciences

Vivian Do is a PhD student at Columbia’s Environmental Health Sciences department. She received an MPH in epidemiology with a certificate in Climate & Health at Columbia and afterwards conducted air pollution research with the University of Hong Kong on a Fulbright. Vivian’s current research centers on characterizing power outages and examining their health consequences. Broadly, she is interested in environmental epidemiology methods, climate change, and the built environment through…

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Shuxin Dong

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
HSPH Department of Environmental Health

Shuxin got Bachelor of Environmental Science and Bachelor of Economics from Peking University and graduated from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a master degree concentrating on environmental epidemiology. Her research interests are air pollution and Alzheimer’s Disease / birth outcomes, and causal inference methods.

Sarika Aggarwal

PhD Student
HSPH Department of Biostatistics

Sarika Aggarwal is a 1st year PhD student in the Biostatistics department and previously, received her B.S. in Statistics from the University of Pittsburgh. She is excited to work with Dr. Rachel Nethery and Dr. Kate Hu this semester to investigate the association between flood exposures and hospitalization.

Ellen Considine

PhD Student
HSPH Department of Biostatistics

Ellen Considine is a PhD student in biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  Outside of school, she writes a column (“Breathing Data”) about environmental health, data science, and public policy for the Harvard Public Health Review. In May 2020, Ellen graduated from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder with a BS in applied math and minors in statistics, economics, and geography. At CU, she worked on…