Upcoming Events
See video from recent eventsMonday February 24 2025 • 01:00 PM — 03:30 PM
Environmental Statistics Day: “Mixture All Along: Statistical Methods for Estimating Complex Exposure-Response Functions”
With Howard Chang, PhD (Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University)
Humans are simultaneously exposed to multiple correlated chemical and non-chemical environmental risk factors. Advancements in exposure assessments and statistical tools have enabled a shift towards studying the combined health impact of multiple exposures. This presentation will describe the use of approximate Gaussian process regression and Bayesian additive regression trees (BART) to flexibly characterize exposure-response functions. These approaches aim to address the computational challenges associated with Bayesian kernel machine regression (BKMR) and some parametric assumptions associated with quantile g-computation (qcomp). We apply these methods in several population-based epidemiologic studies to estimate health effects of ambient air pollution on emergency department visits and birth weight in Georgia, as well as an extension to identify heterogeneous health effects of heat waves. We will also describe challenges and approaches in visualizing and summarizing these complex exposure-response surfaces. Finally, we will discuss some practical and methodological issues related to the analysis of multiple environmental exposures.
Additional speakers:
- Wei Hao, PhD (Research Assistant Professor, Biostatistics): “Statistical methods for chemical mixtures: a roadmap for practitioners”
- Michele Peruzzi, PhD (Assistant Professor, Biostatistics): “Inside-out cross-covariance for spatial multivariate data”
- Sung Kyun Park, ScD (Professor, Environmental Health Sciences & Epidemiology): “An environment-wide interaction study to identify hidden environmental factors affecting susceptible populations”
Sponsored by: Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) Integrated Health Sciences Core
Featured Event
Tuesday March 11 2025 • 12:00 PM — 01:00 PM
Environmental Research Seminar: “Environmental chemicals and neurotoxicity across the lifespan: A focus on mid- to late life”
With Dr. Julia Anglen Bauer (Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health)
Dr. Julia Anglen Bauer received her BS in biomedical sciences and BA in languages at Colorado State University. She holds a MS in epidemiology from UIC and a PhD in Environmental Health from Boston University School of Public Health. She received postdoctoral training at Dartmouth School of Medicine in environmental epidemiology. Dr. Bauer studies how environmental exposures impact neurological outcomes across the life course. Her work spans investigating chemical exposures during pregnancy and child brain development, to mid-life exposures and risk of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in later life. Dr. Bauer's mission is to study these associations in communities that are disproportionately affected by environmental pollution, or individuals who are at higher risk of disease (racial minorities and sex differences) or are at an age of heightened susceptibility to exposure. Her work includes using environmental mixtures statistical methods and molecular biomarkers of environmental exposure.
Registration: Join us online .
Sponsored by: Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) Integrated Health Sciences Core
Monday March 24 2025 • 01:00 PM — 03:00 PM
“Building Solidarity for Clean and Affordable Water in Michigan”
With Noah Attal (University of Michigan Water Center), Mary Grant (Food and Water Watch), Monica Lewis-Patrick (We The People of Detroit), Elizabeth Mack, PhD, MA (Michigan State University), Jim Perkinson (Ecumenical Theological Seminary), Tony Spaniola (Great Lakes PFAS Action Network)
Who should attend? Environmental health practice community, community organizers, and allies; we need all expertise and perspectives to address the workshop goals.
Goals: This workshop will identify opportunities to raise awareness of water accessibility as a public health issue, and to invite strategic conversations about building alliances across constituencies for addressing the issue.
Space is limited, registration is required! Please visit the event webpage for more information.
Location: Ypsilanti District Library, Whittaker Road
Sponsored by: Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD)
