Fall 2025 Seminar Schedule.
Join us every Wednesday from 1:00-1:50 in L112 or Zoom:
Fall 2025 Schedule Summary |
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| Date | Speaker | Seminar Titles and Topics |
| Sept 10 | EH Faculty
Department of Environmental Health BUSPH |
Session will feature lightening talks, given by EH faculty, introducing themselves and their research |
| Sep 17 | EH PhD Students
Department of Environmental Health BUSPH |
Session will feature lightening talks, given by EH doctoral students, introducing themselves and their research |
| Sep 24 | EH Staff
Department of Environmental Health BUSPH |
Session will feature lightening talks, given by EH staff, introducing themselves and their research |
| Oct 1 | CANCELLED | |
| Oct 8 | CANCELLED | |
| Oct 15 | Yvette Cozier
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice BUSPH |
Psychosocial and Environmental Determinants of Black Women’s Health
Dr. Cozier is the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice at BU as well as 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. |
| Oct 22 | Matthew Fox
Professor Department of Epidemiology BUSPH |
The Role of Intuition in Epidemiology
Matthew Fox, DSc, MPH, is a Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health at Boston University. His research interests include treatment outcomes in HIV-treatment programs, infectious disease epidemiology (with specific interests in HIV and pneumonia), and epidemiologic methods. Dr. Fox works on ways to improve retention in HIV-care programs in South Africa from the time of testing HIV-positive through long-term treatment. As part of this work, he is involved in analyses to assess the impact of changes in South Africa’s National Treatment Guidelines for HIV. Dr. Fox also does research on quantitative bias analysis and co-authored a book on these methods, Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data. |
| Oct 29 | Emily Leonard and Flannery Black-Ingersoll
EH PhD Students Department of Environmental Health BUSPH |
Session: EH Trainee Talks
Emily: Ferroalloy Metal Mixtures and Adolescent Cognition Flannery: Difference-in-Differences: Climate Resilience Adaptation and Psychiatric Emergency Services Use During Extreme Heat in Boston, MA |
| Nov 5 | Noelle Henderson and Jinho Lee
EH PhD Student (Noelle) and Postdoctoral Associate (Jinho) Department of Environmental Health BUSPH |
Session: EH Trainee Talks
Noelle: Legacy Pollutants, Modern Consequences: Exploring Persistent EDCs and Infant Health through a Mixtures Lens Noelle’s research interests include methodological approaches for assessing the effects of chemical mixtures, particularly for endocrine disrupting chemicals, on child health outcomes. She is also interested in investigating the effects of gestational exposures on reproductive and birth outcomes. Jinho: Should We Invest? Simulating Cooling, Learning, and Energy in Schools Jinho is broadly interested in developing new approaches and tools, such as low-cost sensors, for exposure assessment. He obtained his doctorate in Environmental Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and prior work experience include working as an analyst at the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency and studying exposure assessment of airborne particles and chemicals. |
| Nov 12 | Nina Brooks
Assistant Professor School for Environmental and Sustainability University of Michigan |
Reducing Emissions and Air Pollution From the Informal Sector: Evidence From Bangladesh
Nina Brooks is an Assistant Professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Dr. Brooks’ research interests are in understanding the environmental and social determinants of health and generating evidence to inform climate and health policy, primarily in the Global South. Her current research is focused on implementing an energy efficiency intervention to reduce emissions and air pollution from the brick sector in Bangladesh and examines the relationships between heat stress, land-cover change, and reproductive health outcomes. Her previous work has studied the environmental and health consequences of brick manufacturing in Bangladesh, how variability in agricultural growing season quality affects fertility preferences in sub-Saharan Africa, and how abortion policies impact women’s health and economic outcomes. Her research employs a range of disciplinary approaches and tools from economics, demography, data science, geography, and epidemiology. |
| Nov 19 | Amira Aker
Assistant Professor Department of Epidemiology BUSPH |
PFAS Exposure in an Arctic Community: An Example of a Community-Based Project
Amira Aker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. Her work applies interdisciplinary research to identify risks associated with exposures to contaminants of emerging concern. Her community-based participatory research centers around the health effects of PFAS in Inuit communities. She also studies the health effects associated with living in proximity to unconventional oil and gas development. |
| Nov 26 | CANCELLED | |
| Dec 3 | CANCELLED | |
| Dec 10 | Wrap Up | |