Environmental Health Nexus Webinars, Meeting and Conferences

Sonja Swanson, ScD

Sonja Swanson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. Her methodological research focuses on improving the use and transparency of methods for estimating causal effects in epidemiology. Such work includes working with collaborators on many different questions in public health, especially in settings where randomized trials are not feasible. Much of her recent applied research has focused on suicide prevention.

Neil Pearce, BSc, PhD, DSc

Neil Pearce joined the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the beginning of 2011, after working in New Zealand for 30 years. He originally trained in biostatistics before transitioning to doctoral training in epidemiological methods. He has been engaged in a wide range of public health research activities. His current research interests focus on epidemiological and biostatistical methods and their application to studies of non-communicable diseases, including occupational and environmental health, asthma, kidney disease, and neurological disease. He has a particular interest in global epidemiological studies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a past president of the International Epidemiological Association.

Antonio Gasparrini, BSc Mbiol, MSc, PhD

Antonio Gasparrini is a Professor of Biostatistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U.K. He has made several methodological contributions to the field through the development of study designs, statistical methods, and software development, applied in particular to time series methods, quasi-experimental studies, and survival analysis. His substantive research covers several areas, from investigating environmental or occupational factors’ health effects to evaluating public health interventions.

Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Ph.D.

Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen is the Luddy Family President’s Distinguished Professor, professor of biostatistics at the Perelman School of Medicine, and professor of statistics and data science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also co-directs the Penn Center for Causal Inference, which supports the development and dissemination of causal inference methods in health and social sciences. He has published extensively on causal inference, missing data, and semiparametric theory with several impactful applications ranging from HIV research to genetic epidemiology, environmental health, and Alzheimer’s disease and related aging disorders. He is an Amazon scholar working with Amazon scientists on a variety of causal inference problems in the tech industry space. Professor Tchetgen Tchetgen is a 2022 inaugural co-recipient of the newly established The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics in recognition for his work in causal inference with applications in public health and medicine.