Center Member Research Presentation: Dr. Angie Cradock and Dr. Mingyu Zhang

Please join us for Center Member Research Presentations by Dr. Angie Cradock (“Water First! Policies, programs, and practices shaping quality access”) and Dr. Mingyu Zhang (“Seconds count: Lasting impacts of early-life pollutants on pediatric hypertension”).

Angie Cradock, ScD, MS, is Deputy Director at the Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity and a Principal Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Cradock’s research primarily focuses on the social, policy, and environmental factors associated with physical activity and nutrition behaviors among youth. Specific areas of interest include school and neighborhood environments, community-based intervention research, and policy research. She holds a Doctor of Science degree from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.

Mingyu Zhang, PhD, MHS, is an epidemiologist and faculty member in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. The primary goal of his research program is to understand how environmental exposures shape disease risks and impact cardiometabolic health across the life course. Previously, Dr. Zhang worked as a Research Fellow in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and, prior to that, as a Biostatistician at the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Data Analysis Center at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Zhang holds PhD (Environmental Epidemiology) and MHS (Cardiovascular and Clinical Epidemiology) degrees from Johns Hopkins University.

This is a hybrid event, held at the Chan School, Building 1, Room 1302 and on Zoom.