Jon Levy

Boston University School of Public Health

Jon Levy is professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. His research centers on urban environmental exposure and health risk modeling, with an emphasis on spatiotemporal exposure patterns and related environmental justice issues. He co-directs the Center for Research on Environmental and Social Stressors in Housing Across the Life Course (CRESSH), which involves interdisciplinary research activities connecting environmental epidemiology, exposure science, and health disparities modeling, with a focus on the indoor environment and community-engaged research. Current research also includes an examination of the social and environmental determinants of COVID-19 disparities in Massachusetts, research on the exposures and health risks associated with aviation air pollution and noise, a study using systems science methods to evaluate the benefits of housing interventions on pediatric asthma, and a community-engaged study to build response capacity to extreme heat events in Chelsea and East Boston.

Areas of Expertise

• Health and Medicine
• Environmental Justice

Methodology

• Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
• Quantitative Methods
• Secondary Data Analysis