{"id":73156,"date":"2026-06-03T14:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=73156"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:05:48","slug":"mary-willis","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/mary-willis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Willis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Mary D. Willis, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health and core faculty with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/\">Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS<\/a>). <\/span><span>Her expertise lies at the intersection of environmental epidemiology, spatial exposure assessment, and applied data science. Much of her work also leverages econometric-based causal inference methods. She is particularly interested in how epidemiological studies can be best designed to inform health-protective policy decisions. To date, Dr. Willis has primarily focused on how on exposures from the energy sector (e.g., oil and gas development, traffic-related air pollution) and other aspects of the built environment (e.g., green space, neighborhood disadvantage) influence reproductive health outcomes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Willis is PI of an NIH Director\u2019s Early Independence Award that examines how oil and gas development may impact fertility and pregnancy. She is also a co-investigator on an accountability study of vehicle emission regulations and birth outcomes that is funded by the Health Effects Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pronouns: she\/her\/hers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25438,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/73156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/73156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73170,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/73156\/revisions\/73170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}