I am a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. I have significant expertise in exposure assessment and environmental epidemiology to examine the relationship between environmental exposures and health outcomes, with a focus on exposure to source-specific air pollution and climate change extremes and neurodevelopmental outcomes and mortality. I am a principal investigator on a large epidemiological study to assess the mental health effects of climate change-induced exposures in the Gulf States, funded by the National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program. I am interested in developing a multidisciplinary research program that examines the health impacts of air pollution and climate extremes and contributes to evidence-based policy-making and public health interventions.
Ongoing and completed research projects that I would like to highlight include:
SCON-10001148 National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program
Role: PI
07/01/2024–06/30/2027
Climate-Induced Exposures and Mental Health: Assessing Multilevel Impact and Identifying Vulnerable Communities
R01 ES029963
PIs: Xiang/ McConnell, Role: Co- I (Postdoctoral Scholar)
08/01/2019 – 05/31/2024
Particulate Air Pollutants And Autism Risk: Exposure Characteristics, Indicators Of Susceptibility, And Mechanistic Pathways
P30 ES007048
PI: McConnell, Role: Co-I (Postdoctoral Scholar)
04/01/1997 – 05/31/2021
Environmental Exposures, Host Factors, and Human Disease Environmental Exposures, Host Factors, and Human Disease
