I am a clinical assistant professor in the Health Science Program within the Department of Health Sciences at BU Sargent College, specializing in spatial analysis, climate change, and social determinants of health. I hold graduate degrees in both geosciences (Ph.D.) and epidemiology (Sc.M.), and I use methods and data sets from both disciplines to understand the impacts of climate change and other environmental factors on public health.

My recent research projects include: (1) building statistical models to assess hospitalizations and deaths associated with extreme heat; (2) applying climate science and big-data analytic skills to derive and publish a data set of complex heat metrics spatially resolved to the county level; (3) serving as quality assurance manager for data used in a community participatory research program on cumulative climate and chemical hazards in the Mystic River Watershed; and (4) developing novel, open-source geospatial methods to improve calculations of the social determinants of health at various scales.