Yvette Cozier
Profiles

Yvette C. Cozier, DSc

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, Dean’s Office - Boston University School of Public Health

yvettec@bu.edu

Biography

Dr. Cozier is an investigator on the Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS) and the BWHS Sarcoidosis Study at the Slone Epidemiology Center. Her research interests include social and genetic determinants of health in African-American women -- specifically, the influence of psychosocial stressors (e.g., racism, neighborhood socioeconomic status), and genetics in the development of cancer, cardiometabolic, and immune-mediated diseases (sarcoidosis, lupus). Additional research interests include oral health, and the role that religiosity/spirituality and the faith community, particularly the black church, plays in health promotion/disease prevention in the Black community.

Other Positions

  • Associate Professor, Epidemiology - Boston University School of Public Health
  • Member, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research - Boston University

Education

  • Boston University School of Public Health, DSc Field of Study: Epidemiology
  • Boston University School of Public Health, MPH Field of Study: Epidemiology
  • Harvard University Extension School, BA Field of Study: Liberal Arts

Websites

Classes Taught

  • SPHEP775
  • SPHPH717

Publications

  • Published on 2/7/2024

    Ruiz-Narváez EA, Cozier Y, Zirpoli G, Rosenberg L, Palmer JR. Perceived Experiences of racism in Relation to Genome-Wide DNA Methylation and Epigenetic Aging in the Black Women's Health Study. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2024 Feb 07. PMID: 38324238.

    Read At: PubMed
  • Published on 1/18/2024

    Sheehy S, Brock M, Palmer JR, Albert MA, Cozier YC, Rosenberg L. Perceived Interpersonal Racism in Relation to Incident Coronary Heart Disease Among Black Women. Circulation. 2024 Feb 13; 149(7):521-528. PMID: 38235551.

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  • Published on 1/16/2024

    Rosario MA, Alotaibi R, Espinal-Martinez AO, Ayoub A, Baumann A, Clark U, Cozier Y, Schon K. Personal Mastery Attenuates the Association between Greater Perceived Discrimination and Lower Amygdala and Anterior Hippocampal Volume in a Diverse Sample of Older Adults. bioRxiv. 2024 Jan 16. PMID: 38293042.

    Read At: PubMed
  • Published on 12/6/2023

    Cozier YC, Arkema EV. Update on Sarcoidosis - Clinics in Chest Medicine Robert P. Baughman, MD, Elyse E. Lower, MD, Marc A. Judson, MD, Editors. Epidemiology of Sarcoidosis. Elsevier Inc. St. Louis. 2023; 45(1):DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j..

  • Published on 11/3/2023

    Palmer JR, Cozier YC, Rosenberg L. Research on Health Disparities: Strategies and Findings From the Black Women's Health Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2023 Nov 03; 192(11):1806-1810. PMID: 35136921.

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  • Published on 11/3/2023

    Davidson JC, Kent BV, Cozier YC, Kanaya AM, Warner ET, Eliassen AH, Williams DR, Shields AE. "Does Religious Service Attendance Modify the Relationship between Everyday Discrimination and Risk of Obesity? Results from the Study on Stress, Spirituality and Health". J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2023 Nov 03. PMID: 37921946.

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  • Published on 11/1/2023

    Sheehy S, Aparicio HJ, Palmer JR, Cozier Y, Lioutas VA, Shulman JG, Rosenberg L. Perceived Interpersonal Racism and Incident Stroke Among US Black Women. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Nov 01; 6(11):e2343203. PMID: 37948073.

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  • Published on 10/10/2023

    Bertrand KA, Delp L, Coogan PF, Cozier YC, Lenzy YM, Rosenberg L, Palmer JR. Hair relaxer use and risk of uterine cancer in the Black Women's Health Study. Environ Res. 2023 Dec 15; 239(Pt 1):117228. PMID: 37821068.

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  • Published on 10/8/2023

    Arkema EV, Rossides M, Cozier YC. Sarcoidosis and its relation to other immune-mediated diseases: Epidemiological insights. J Autoimmun. 2023 Oct 08; 103127. PMID: 37816661.

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  • Published on 10/3/2023

    Anyane-Yeboa A, Buadu MAE, Khalili H, Cozier YC. Epidemiology of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Cohort of US Black Women. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2023 Oct 03; 29(10):1517-1523. PMID: 36946376.

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