Marc Weisskopf

Biography

Marc G. Weisskopf, Ph.D., Sc.D., is the Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Physiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Director of the Harvard TH Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health, and Director of Epidemiological Studies for the Football Players Health Study at Harvard. Dr. Weisskopf received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco, and his Sc.D. in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He also spent two years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working on environmental health issues in the Wisconsin State Health Department. His neuroscience work focused on molecular and cellular aspects of neural signaling and plasticity. His epidemiological work focuses on the influence of environmental exposures on brain health across the life course. In particular, his research focuses on environmental risk factors for outcomes such as autism spectrum disorders, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cognitive function and dementia, and psychiatric conditions. Dr. Weisskopf also explores epidemiological methods issues to improve causal inference from observational environmental health studies.

Education and Training

• ScB, Neuroscience
  Brown University
• PhD, Neuroscience
  University of California, San Francisco
• SM, Epidemiology
  Harvard School of Public Health
• ScD, Epidemiology
  Harvard School of Public Health

Publications

• Sub-micrometer scale synchrotron x-ray fluorescence measurements of trace elements in teeth compared with laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

  Specht AJ, Zhang X, Antipova OA, Sayam ASM, Nguyen VT, Hoover CG, Punshon T, Jackson BP, Weisskopf MG. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2025 Jan 29

  PMID: 39881199

• Early-life cognitively stimulating activities and late-life cognitive function in the St. Louis Baby Tooth Later Life Health Study.

  Roberts AL, Qiu X, McAlaine KA, Germine LT, Rotem RS, Weisskopf MG. Sci Rep 2025 01 15

  PMID: 39814743

• A novel approach for inferring effects on pregnancy loss.

  Leung M, Rowland ST, Modest AM, Hacker MR, Papatheodorou S, Wei Y, Schwartz J, Coull BA, Wilson A, Kioumourtzoglou MA, Weisskopf MG. Am J Epidemiol 2024 Dec 26

  PMID: 39745800

• Air Pollution and Temperature in Seizures and Epilepsy: A Scoping Review of Epidemiological Studies.

  Sharma R, Schinasi LH, Lee BK, Weuve J, Weisskopf MG, Sheffield PE, Clougherty JE. Curr Environ Health Rep 2024 Dec 10

  PMID: 39656387

• The effect of chelation on bone Pb stores in Pb poisoned children.

  Specht AJ, Lin Y, Xu J, Dickerson AS, Yan C, Hu H, Weisskopf MG, Nie LH. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2024 Dec 03

  PMID: 39627471