CCEB Seminar- Jaime E. Hart, ScD

"Epidemiology of the External Exposome"Jaime E. Hart, ScD Assistant Professor of Medicine Channing Division of Network MedicineBrigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical SchoolAssistant Professor in the Department of Environmental HealthHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health   Broadly my research focuses on environmental and occupational risk factors of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, COPD, rheumatoid arthritis, and reproductive systems. I have mainly focused my research on the effects of air pollution and traffic exposure in the general population and in workers from the railroad and trucking industries. I am particularly interested in incorporating geographic information system (GIS) technologies and spatial statistics into these fields to improve exposure assessment, control for area level confounding by factors such as socioeconomic status (SES), and to explore the geographic distributions of disease. I have primarily worked with data from large cohort studies based at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health, such as the Nurses' Health Studies (NHS, NHSII, and NHS3), the Health Professionals' Follow-up Study, the US Railroad Workers Study, and the Trucking Industry Particle Study.