Center Member Research Presentation: Sonia Hernández-Díaz, MD, DrPH, and Amruta Nori-Sarma, MPH, PhD
Join us for a Center Member Research Presentation by Dr. Sonia Hernández-Díaz and Dr. Amruta Nori-Sarma. Dr. Hernández-Díaz will present on Environmental exposures and health care claims: When two universes of data and methods collide and Dr. Nori-Sarma will present on Extreme weather impacts on mental health: Leveraging big data.
Sonia Hernández-Díaz, MD, DrPH is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she serves as Director of the Pharmacoepidemiology & Real World Evidence (RWE) Program. Her research focuses on examining drug safety during pregnancy using primary and secondary observational data. She has experience with case-control surveillance studies, pregnancy registries, and pregnancy cohorts nested within healthcare utilization data. Another group of research activities concerns the application of innovative methodologic concepts to increase the efficiency and the validity of observational studies. In recent projects her team has emulated hypothetical target trials to evaluate medications and vaccines in pregnancy.
Amruta Nori-Sarma is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Population Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As an environmental epidemiologist, Dr. Nori-Sarma studies the relationship between environmental exposures associated with climate change and health outcomes in vulnerable communities. Dr. Nori-Sarma aims to understand the impacts of interrelated extreme weather events on mental health across the US utilizing large claims datasets. She also has an interest in evaluating the success of policies put in place to reduce the health impacts of climate change.
Additionally, Dr. Nori-Sarma serves as one of the leads of the CAFE RCC, the research coordinating center of the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative. CAFE, a joint effort with the BU School of Public Health, aims to bring together and amplify the work of a more diverse community of practice in climate and health.
This event will be held in person in HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302 and via Zoom. Register here.