Marcia Pescador Jimenez
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Marcia I. Pescador Jimenez, PhD, MS, MS

Associate Professor, Epidemiology - Boston University School of Public Health

(617) 358-3728
jimenezm@bu.edu
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Biography

Marcia Pescador Jimenez, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Epidemiology Department at Boston University. Marcia received her PhD in epidemiology from the Brown University School of Public Health and completed an NHLBI T32 postdoctoral fellowship in cardiovascular disease and environmental epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is formally trained as a cardiovascular, environmental and aging epidemiologist with a multidisciplinary research portfolio in the epidemiology of aging, specifically geographic contextual risk factors and racial/ethnic disparities.

Her early work evaluated the relationship between greenspace and hypertension among adults. More recently, she has extended this to examine the relationship between greenspace and cognitive development among children and mediation analysis between greenspace and cognitive function. Her current work focuses on novel metrics of greenspace and the urban environment using Deep Learning Algorithms and Google Street View images. She has extensive experience working with several cohort studies, including, the New England Family Study, Project Viva, the Nurses Health Studies, and the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. She is currently funded through a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute on Aging which aims to quantify the role of built and natural environment on cognitive functioning and Alzheimer's disease risk, evaluating racial/ethnic disparities.

Education

  • Brown University, PhD Field of Study: Epidemiology
  • Northeastern University, MS Field of Study: Sociology
  • Katholieke Univ Leuven, MS Field of Study: Statistics
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, BS Field of Study: Actuarial Science

Websites

Classes Taught

  • SPHEP850

Publications

  • Published on 7/22/2026

    Hirsch JA, Besser LM, Pescador Jimenez M, Dickinson ST, Cornelius T, Francisco ST, Lawin K, Abdel Magid HS, Albrecht SS, Bai Allen N, Balte P, Barber S, Bateman LA, Beach LB, Block JP, Brown SC, Buhr RG, Chambers EC, Crooks JL, Diez Roux AV, Elkind MSV, Gallo LC, Gordon-Larsen P, Gutierrez J, Isasi CR, James P, Judd SE, Kanaya AM, Kandula NR, Kaufman JD, Kershaw KN, Kucharska-Newton AM, Kulick ER, Lee JS, Lovasi GS, Mauger D, McClure LA, Melly S, Merkin SS, Michael YL, Oates GR, Phillips BR, Reese JA, Regan EA, Reimer CJ, Rodriguez DA, Rundek T, Schembri M, Sims M, Spartano NL, Wilson C, Zhang Y, Oelsner EC. Spatial and neighborhood data in the collaborative cohort of cohorts for COVID-19 Research (C4R). PLoS One. 2026; 21(7):e0352170. PMID: 42485397.

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  • Published on 7/15/2026

    Kondo MC, Iungman T, Barboza EP, Locke DH, Yeager R, Fry D, Steed AC, Pescador Jiménez M, Rojas-Rueda D, Nieuwenhuijsen M. A national health impact assessment of achieving tree canopy goals in US urban areas. Environ Res. 2026 Sep 15; 306(Pt 2):125205. PMID: 42457110.

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  • Published on 6/4/2026

    Pescador Jimenez M, Chivardi M, Coull BA, Hystad P, Diez-Roux AV, Kaufman JD, James P. Street view-based exposure to greenspace and mortality: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Environ Int. 2026 Jul; 213:110339. PMID: 42248000.

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  • Published on 5/1/2026

    Reimer CJ, Jenson TE, Tripodis Y, Shiba K, James P, Kirwa K, Heckbert SR, Hirsch JA, Besser L, Hughes T, Kaufman JD, Coull BA, Pescador Jimenez M. Mixtures of key components of the external exposome in association with MRI biomarkers of brain structure: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Alzheimers Dement. 2026 May; 22(5):e71459. PMID: 42157022.

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  • Published on 1/20/2026

    James P, Suel E, Lin PD, Hart JE, Rimm EB, Laden F, Hystad P, Hankey S, Larkin A, Zhang W, Klompmaker J, Coull B, Yi L, Pescador Jimenez M. Assessing greenspace and cardiovascular disease risk through deep learning analysis of street-view imagery in the US-based nationwide Nurses' Health Study. Environ Epidemiol. 2026 Feb; 10(1):e442. PMID: 41567830.

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  • Published on 11/13/2025

    Jenson TE, Lin PD, James P, Hystad P, Diez-Roux AV, Coull B, Besser L, Suel E, Weuve J, Pescador Jimenez M. Street-view greenspace distribution across racial/ethnic, neighborhood income, and individual education subgroups. Environ Epidemiol. 2025 Dec; 9(6):e441. PMID: 41268185.

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  • Published on 10/17/2025

    Rubenstein E, Tewolde S, Michals A, Fortea J, Jimenez MP, Skotko BG, Tripodis Y, Weuve J, Rosellini AJ. Novel predictors of Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome identified using machine learning. J Alzheimers Dis. 2025 Dec; 108(3):1166-1176. PMID: 41105592.

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  • Published on 9/27/2025

    Yuan Z, Kerckhoffs J, Lin PD, Suel E, Li H, Yi L, Jimenez MP, James P, de Hoogh K, Hoek G, Vermeulen R. Advancing Air Pollution Exposure Models with Open-Vocabulary Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation of Street-View Images. Environ Sci Technol. 2025 Oct 07; 59(39):21237-21247. PMID: 41014621.

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  • Published on 9/17/2025

    Flesaker M, Kraal AZ, Avila-Rieger JF, Glymour MM, Gradus JL, Briceño EM, Manly JJ, Kobayashi LC, Pescador Jimenez M. Cognitive data harmonization across two racially diverse cohorts in the United States. Alzheimers Dement Behav Socioecon Aging. 2025 Sep 17; 1(3). PMID: 40988999.

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  • Published on 7/6/2025

    Yi L, Hart JE, Wilt G, Hu CR, Jimenez MP, Lin PD, Suel E, Hystad P, Hankey S, Zhang W, Chavarro JE, Laden F, James P. GPS-based street-view greenspace exposure and wearable assessed physical activity in a prospective cohort of US women. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2025 Jul 06; 22(1):92. PMID: 40619433.

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