- Director, Weisskopf Environmental Neuroepidemiology Group: From developmental disorders of childhood, to mental health disorders, to neurodegenerative diseases and disorders, our group’s focus is to understand the contribution of occupational and environmental exposures to these disorders. We aim to use the best epidemiological methods approaches with state of the art exposure assessment approaches to address these issues. We conduct studies in many different settings, including local Boston area populations, U.S.-wide cohorts, Denmark, and Israel.
- Director, Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health: The Harvard Chan-National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Center for Environmental Health is a coordinated set of resources and facilities supporting environmental health research and training activities throughout the Boston area. Located at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area, the Center promotes integration between basic and applied environmental science, and fosters collaborations that cross departmental and institutional boundaries.
- Co-Director, The JPB Environmental Health Fellows Program: The JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program promotes multidisciplinary research among promising junior faculty committed to comprehensive approaches to address health disparities, thereby developing leaders with skills and experiences to solve complex environmental health problems. Through internal grants, mentoring, and training, the JPB EH Fellows will be prepared to engage in community-based research on persistent and emerging environmental health challenges, such as how the social and physical environment interact to influence health, and to look particularly at these determinants of health on underserved communities. Recognizing the urgency of these issues and the need to train a new generation of scholars, JPB EH Fellows will be guided to engage in research pertinent to the broader mission of the JPB Foundation and thereby serve populations in disadvantaged urban and rural communities across the U.S.
- Environmental Molecular Epidemiology Research Group: The mission of the Michigan-Harvard Environmental Molecular Epidemiology Research Group (EMERG) 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.
- Neuroepidemiology Research Group: The Harvard School of Public Health Neuroepidemiology Research Group is a team of scientists collaborating in the epidemiological investigation of multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s disease (PD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurological diseases. We are based at HSPH, with collaborators at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and other institutions both in the U.S. and abroad. Our primary research involves the application of epidemiological methods to identify causal risk factors for neurological diseases, and our focus is on the conduction of large prospective investigations into the effects of nutrition, environment, and infectious agents on neurological disease risk, as well as the identification of biomarkers and genetic determinants of neurological disease susceptibility.
- Superfund Research Program: The program’s six research projects share the central theme of exposure to metals and childhood neurological development. These studies follow populations affected by three hazardous waste sites: in Tar Creek, Oklahoma; in Mexico City, Mexico; and in the Mungshiganj and Pabna districts of Bangladesh.
Weisskopf Lab: Environmental Neuroepidemiology Group
