Maria Argos, PhD
Professor, Environmental Health - Boston University School of Public Health
Biography
Dr. Argos is an environmental and molecular epidemiologist interested in the effects of metal exposures on cardiometabolic and cancer endpoints across the life course. Her research strongly emphasizes identifying molecular pathways altered by environmental exposures that influence disease risk by leveraging high-dimensional molecular data and biomarker data obtained from biological specimens collected in the epidemiological setting. She is the principal investigator of the Bangladesh Environmental Research in Children's Health (BIRCH) cohort that aims to evaluate early life health effects of arsenic exposure and metal mixtures. She is also a principal investigator of a disease study site examining diabetes and kidney disease progression in collaboration with the newly established Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium and an investigator of the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS) and the Chicago Field Center of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. She previously served as a principal investigator of the Illinois site of the national All of Us Research Program. Dr. Argos has extensive experience implementing longitudinal epidemiologic studies among diverse participant populations in the US and internationally. She is also particularly interested in developing epidemiological methods for assessing gene-environment interactions and environmental mixtures.
Education
- Columbia University, PhD Field of Study: Epidemiology
- Columbia University, MPH Field of Study: Environmental Health
- Boston College, BS Field of Study: Biology
Publications
- Published on 1/7/2026
Ni Y, Balakumar P, Islam T, Haque SE, Shahriar MH, Sarwar G, Ahmed A, Liu C, Pierce BL, Sargis RM, Jackson B, Jasmine F, Kibriya MG, Ahsan H, Argos M. Cross-sectional association of arsenic exposure with thyroid function in Bangladeshi children aged 5 to 7 years. Environ Health. 2026 Jan 07. PMID: 41501906.
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- Published on 12/16/2025
Wu F, van Geen A, Graziano J, Ahmed KM, Liu M, Argos M, Parvez F, Choudhury I, Slavkovich VN, Ellis T, Islam T, Ahmed A, Kibriya MG, Jasmine F, Shahriar MH, Hasan R, Shima SA, Sarwar G, Navas-Acien A, Ahsan H, Chen Y. Arsenic Exposure Reduction and Chronic Disease Mortality. JAMA. 2025 Dec 16; 334(23):2104-2112. PMID: 41247717.
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- Published on 9/23/2025
Rana J, Shahriar MH, Haque SE, Hore SK, Islam T, Sarwar G, Yunus M, Argos M, Ahsan H, Kaufman JS. Metal Mixtures Mediate the Socioeconomic Gradient in Blood Pressure: A Four-Way Decomposition in a Prospective Rural Bangladeshi Cohort. medRxiv. 2025 Sep 23. PMID: 41040720.
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- Published on 8/16/2025
Chen X, Wang H, Broce I, Dale A, Yu B, Zhou LY, Li X, Argos M, Daviglus ML, Cai J, Franceschini N, Sofer T. Old vs. new local ancestry inference in HCHS/SOL: a comparative study. Hum Mol Genet. 2025 Aug 16; 34(16):1405-1418. PMID: 40485222.
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- Published on 8/15/2025
Noriega Esquives BS, Manoharan A, Penedo FJ, Dee EC, Mahal BA, Punnen S, Rodriguez-Saltzman X, Perreira KM, Parada H, Argos M, Hougen HY. Factors associated with prostate cancer screening among Hispanic men: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Cancer. 2025 Aug 15; 131(16):e70029. PMID: 40772774.
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- Published on 8/1/2025
Abrishamcar S, Aqua JK, Dye C, Jones-Antwi R, Chen Y, Gallo LC, Llabre MM, Perreira KM, Daviglus ML, Argos M, Thyagarajan B, Hüls A, Baccarelli A, Cai J, Isasi CR, Kaplan RC, Conneely KN, Suglia SF. Cumulative psychosocial factors and epigenetic age acceleration in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Epigenomics. 2025 Sep; 17(13):865-877. PMID: 40747766.
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- Published on 7/28/2025
Hutten CG, Boehm FJ, Smith JA, Spitzer BW, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Isasi CR, Cai J, Unkart JT, Sun J, Persky V, Daviglus ML, Sofer T, Argos M. Differential performance of polygenic risk scores for heart disease in Hispanic/Latino subgroups: Findings of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. HGG Adv. 2025 Oct 09; 6(4):100486. PMID: 40734275.
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- Published on 7/1/2025
Ellis S, Song S, Reiman D, Hui X, Zhang R, Shahriar MH, Argos M, Kamal M, Shea CR, Grossman RL, Khan AA, Ahsan H. AI-assisted Diagnosis of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer in Resource-Limited Settings. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2025 Jul 01; 34(7):1080-1088. PMID: 40287980.
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- Published on 5/15/2025
Kibriya MG, Almazan A, Argos M, Islam T, Shea CR, Ahsan H, Jasmine F. Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Somatic Mutation in Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer (NMSC): Association with Transcriptomic Profile and Potential Implications for Therapy. Cancers (Basel). 2025 May 15; 17(10). PMID: 40427167.
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- Published on 2/8/2025
Chen X, Wang H, Broce I, Dale A, Yu B, Zhou LY, Li X, Argos M, Daviglus ML, Cai J, Franceschini N, Sofer T. Old vs. New Local Ancestry Inference in HCHS/SOL: A Comparative Study. bioRxiv. 2025 Feb 08. PMID: 39975339.
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News & In the Media
- Published on August 31, 2023