Dr. Moon is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. She received a PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where she was a NHLBI T32 graduate fellow in cardiovascular epidemiology. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at JHSPH. She is currently funded through a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health which aims to evaluate the effects of lead and metal mixtures on cognitive decline and cognitive impairment, and epigenetic measures of aging in the Baltimore Memory Study. She is particularly interested in understanding how co-exposures to non-chemical stressors, such as social determinants and psychosocial stress, can interact with environmental determinants to produce environmental health disparities.

Dr. Moon’s multi-disciplinary research portfolio focuses on the epidemiology of environmental determinants of chronic disease in middle and older adults, particularly, cardiovascular, diabetes, and cognitive outcomes and aims to inform real-world policy and regulation. She uses both molecular epidemiologic tools, such as biomarkers of exposure to toxic metals/metalloids, and geospatial measures of contextual exposures, such as greenspace and built environment features, to measure environmental hazards. Dr. Moon’s research includes both traditional epidemiologic cohort studies, taking advantage of intensive data collection and stored biospecimens, as well as administrative data sources, such as electronic health records (EHR), that offer deep clinical data and large populations at relatively low cost. Her early work focused on understanding the effects of low-to-moderate levels of arsenic exposure on cardiovascular and diabetes outcomes and in quantifying the dose-response relation of arsenic exposure with cardiovascular disease across low to high levels of exposure to environmental arsenic. She has extensive experience working with the Strong Heart Study, a longitudinal cohort study of cardiovascular disease in American Indians. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Moon conducted epidemiologic studies of type 2 diabetes and Lyme disease within the Geisinger electronic health record, evaluating an array of environmental and social exposures, as part of the Geisinger Environmental Health Institute.