Policy Committee
NAC Policy Committee Members
Ray Yeager, Co-Chair
Ray Yeager is co-chair of the ISEE NAC Policy Committee and an Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. With a background in health geography, his research program centers on the cardiovascular health effects of green spaces and climate change.
Jabeen Taiba, Co-Chair
Jabeen Taiba serves as co-chair of the ISEE NAC Policy Committee and is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Her research examines environmental exposures and their effects on pediatric and perinatal health outcomes.
Jaime Madrigano
Jaime Madrigano, ScD, MPH, does work that emphasizes environmental justice and aims to reduce population-wide environmental health disparities by producing results to inform equitable policies.
Jane Clougherty
Dr. Jane E. Clougherty is a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. Her work focuses on the synergistic effects of chronic psychosocial stressors and environmental exposures on population health. She also currently serves on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology North American Chapter (ISEE-NAC).
Charlie Roscoe
Charlotte (Charlie) Roscoe is an Assistant Professor at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. With a research interest in how (and when during the life course) exposure to natural and built environments is embodied, and to what magnitude this embodiment drives chronic disease risk and survival.
Maya Spaur
Dr. Maya Spaur is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch at the NCI, where she studies drinking water contaminant exposures and reproductive cancer risk. Her research interests include cancer and chronic disease epidemiology, environmental exposure assessment, and exposure and health disparities.
Stephanie Grady
Stephanie Grady is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Boston University School of Public Health studying the impacts of environmental noise on mental and physical health. Stephanie’s interests lie at the intersection of environmental epidemiology, exposure assessment, and spatial science, with an emphasis on how to use data to create meaningful intervention and policy. She is passionate about understanding how to collaboratively and sustainably change the built environment for better physical and mental health outcomes.
Ariana Haidari
Ariana Haidari, MS, RD, is a doctoral student in Environmental Health Sciences and Scientific Computing with a certificate in Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is interested in using multi-omic methods to identify pre-clinical effects of exposures and improve precision in environmental epidemiology.
Xindi (Cindy) Hu
Xindi (Cindy) Hu, ScD, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the population health impacts of drinking water quality and leveraging wastewater-based epidemiology to inform public health decision-making, using geospatial data science and machine learning at a national scale.
Jenni Shearston
Dr. Shearston is an environmental epidemiologist who identifies and measures chemical pollution from various sources and its impacts on health. She prioritizes research questions that center on community needs and address longstanding health inequities and exposure disparities.
Kristen Cowan
Kristen Cowan, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the University at Buffalo (UB) Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health and part of the Center for Climate Change and Health Equity at UB. Her research focuses climate hazards, disasters, environmental justice, and health disparities. She is passionate about translating research into policy and advancing health equity.
George D. Thurston
Additional Members
- Julian Marshall
- Oluyomi Abiodun