MPE2013 Simons Public Lecture by Francesca Dominici

The Public Health Impact of Air Pollution and Climate Change

April 24, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC.
Speaker: Francesca Dominici, Harvard University
Hosted by: Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) 
Sponsored by: Simons Foundation

Tickets are FREE, and can be obtained here.

Biography:

20 Francesca Dominici, Ph.D., is Professor of Biostatistics in the Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Dean of Information Technology. Dr. Dominici received her Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Padua in 1997. From 1997 to 2009 she was at the Bloomberg School of Public at Johns Hopkins University and in 2009 moved to the School of Public Health at Harvard University.

Dr. Dominici’s research has focused on the development of statistical methods for the integration of large data to assess and monitor health risks associated to air pollution and climate change. She has developed statistical methods for the analysis of large databases on air pollution and health. She has gained experience with the analysis of Medicare data and their linkage by geography and time to other data sources, such us air pollution, weather, and socioeconomic status. She has developed statistical methods for the adjustment of measured and unmeasured confounders, Bayesian hierarchical models, causal inference methods, and missing data methods.

Dr. Dominici is the recipient of the first Walter A. Rosenblith Young Investigator Award from The Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA; the Diversity Recognition Award, from Johns Hopkins University, 2009; of the Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship Award, from the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harvard University, 2007, and of the Mortimer Spiegelman Award, from Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association, 2006. Dr. Dominici is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Dr. Dominici has served on a number of National Academies’ committees including the Committee on Gulf War and Health: Review of the Medical Literature Relative to Gulf War Veterans’ Health; the Committee to Assess Potential Health Effects from Exposures to PAVE PAWS Low-level Phased-array Radiofrequency Energy; the Committee on The Utility of Proximity-Based Herbicide Exposure Assessment in Epidemiologic Studies of Vietnam Veterans, and the Committee to Review ATSDR’s Great Lakes Reports, the committee to Review the Federal Response to the Health Effects Associated with the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill; committee on Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan; committee on Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Acute Coronary Events; committee on Making Best Use of the Agent Orange Exposure Reconstruction Model.

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