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Olivia Halabicky, MSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow with Early Life Exposures in Mexico to Environmental Toxicants (ELEMENT); Professor of Nutritional Sciences
Olivia Halabicky, M.Sc., PhD, is current Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and a former Environmental Toxicology and Epidemiology Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. She received her PhD in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.Sc. in Nursing from Trinity College Dublin. Dr. Halabicky is a children’s environmental health nurse scientist who studies early life environmental and social determinants of health and human development. Her research focuses on how inequitable exposures (e.g., toxicants, adversity, nutrition) at sensitive periods shape cognition and health trajectories and influence health disparities, as well as physiological mechanisms that may mediate these effects. She employs methods from a variety of disciplines including nursing, environmental and social epidemiology, and developmental sciences. During her term as a M-LEEaD Center Scientist, with the mentorship of Dr. Karen Peterson, she will identify joint effects of early environmental co-exposures on adolescent adiposity and assess physiological stress pathways underlying these associations.
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Meredith Pedde, PhD, MPH, MPP
Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemiology
Meredith Pedde, PhD, MPH, MPP, serves as an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology. She received her PhD in Epidemiologic Science, MA in Statistics, MPH, and MPP from the University of Michigan. Dr. Pedde is an environmental epidemiologist whose research focuses on the health impacts of mobile sources, with a particular focus on understanding the impacts of clean school bus upgrades on student health and performance. She is also interested in understanding the role of air pollution on neurological disorders and air pollution exposure science. As an M-LEEaD Center Scientist under the mentorship of Dr. Sara Adar, she will be comparing projected student attendance gains under current and alternative school bus prioritization strategies, characterizing air quality inside diesel and electric school buses in a Michigan school districts in different seasons, and engaging with the US EPA and school districts surrounding the proposed research and research findings.
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