Our Team

Shruthi Mahalingaiah is an assistant professor of environmental, reproductive, and women’s health in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She serves clinically as a physician specializing in ovulation disorders, reproductive endocrinology, and infertility at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has BA from Middlebury College (majors: chemistry/Spanish, minors: physics/dance). Supported by a Thomas J. Watson III Fellowship, she lived with indigenous shamans in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin, Andes mountains, and Bali studying the role of ritual in the healing process before matriculating to medical school. She attended Harvard Medical School and completed her residency in the OB/GYN Combined Program at Brigham and Women’s/Massachusetts General Hospital. She completed a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She joined the faculty at Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center in 2011 with K level funding from the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s’ Health (BIRCWH 2011–2014) and the Reproductive Scientist Development Program (RSDP 2014–2017) to study environmental exposures and incidence of benign gynecologic conditions. She completed a Master of Science in epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health in 2015.

Michelle A. Williams, SM ’88, ScD ’91, is the former Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development, a joint faculty appointment at the Harvard Chan School and Harvard Kennedy School. She is an internationally renowned epidemiologist and public health scientist, an award-winning educator, and a widely recognized academic leader. Prior to her term as Dean, she was Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School and Program Leader of the Population Health and Health Disparities Research Programs at Harvard’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Center. Dean Williams previously had a distinguished career at the University of Washington School of Public Health. Her scientific work places special emphasis in the areas of reproductive, perinatal, pediatric, and molecular epidemiology. Dr. Williams has published over 450 scientific articles. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016. She has a master’s in civil engineering from Tufts University and master’s and doctoral degrees in epidemiology from the Harvard Chan School. 

Russ Hauser MD, ScD, MPH, is the Frederick Lee Hisaw Professor of Reproductive Physiology, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where he was the former Chair of the Department of Environmental Health. He also holds an appointment at Harvard Medical School, where he is a Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology. Dr. Hauser’s research focuses on the effects of environmental chemicals on reproductive health, perinatal outcomes, and children’s health. He has served on several National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees, including the Committee to Review EPA’s State of the Science Paper on non-monotonic dose response, the Committee on phthalates and cumulative risk assessment, and the Committee on endocrine-related low dose toxicity. Dr. Hauser was a member of two U.S. EPA Science Advisory Boards and served on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s Chronic Hazard Advisory Panel examining the effects of phthalates on children’s health. He received his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and his MPH and ScD from the Harvard Chan School, where he also completed a residency in occupational medicine. He is board certified in occupational medicine.  

Brent Coull, PhD, is a professor of Biostatistics in the Departments of Biostatistics and Environmental Health and associate chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He received his PhD in statistics from the University of Florida and has over 25 years of experience in a wide range of biostatistical applications to environmental health and health disparities research. His primary research interests focus on the development and application of integrative modeling of exposure and health data collected at multiple spatial and temporal scales, measurement error issues associated with the use of outputs from such models in risk assessments, methods for analyzing the health effects of high-dimensional environmental mixtures in complex epidemiological study designs, and methods for analyzing highly irregular data such as that arising from electronic health records and mobile health studies. Professor Coull directs a NIH T32 training program in environmental statistics, and is the principal investigator of the Environmental Statistics and Bioinformatics Core of the Harvard NIEHS Center and of the Data and Management Core of the Superfund Research Program at Harvard. Professor Coull has served as an external advisor for multiple U.S. EPA and NIH research centers, several NIH T32 training programs, and as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and Biometrics. 

Jukka-Pekka “JP” Onnela is Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also Co-Director of the Master in Health Data Science program, one of three data science programs at Harvard University. He obtained his doctorate in network science in Finland. Prior to starting his faculty position at the Harvard Chan School in November 2011, he completed a Junior Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford, a Fulbright scholarship at Harvard Kennedy School, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. His primary interest is in developing quantitative methods in two areas: statistical network science and digital phenotyping. He received NIH Director’s New Innovator Award in 2013 for his digital phenotyping project.

Carrie received her BS in health science from Keene State College and followed with a master’s degree in health education from Kaplan University. With a background in health behavior research, she is excited to be focusing on women’s health specifically and contributing to this important work.

Zifan received her PhD and MS degree in epidemiology from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her background is in identifying the impact of environmental exposures on disparities in reproductive and perinatal health. Zifan is excited to join AWHS as a postdoctoral research fellow where she will be studying factors related to menstrual cycles and gynecologic conditions.

Gowtham received a master’s degree in computer science from Boston University. He studied economics and political science in undergrad, with a focus on PR/Media and later specialized in data science in the civic tech space for his MS. Gowtham is excited to elevate health accessibility to women, and especially women in marginalized communities using data science tools and uncovering a very under studied topic.

Roisin is an OBGYN specializing in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. She is interested in exploring the epidemiology of reproductive health and infertility. Roisin obtained her medical degree from University College Cork and earned her master’s degree in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Luke graduated from Houghton University with a degree in mathematics and music education. He obtained his master’s in mathematics from SUNY Brockport and earned a master’s degree and PhD in statistics from the University of Rochester. Luke is passionate about applying statistical theory to improve health and is excited to work in this impactful and important environmental health research area.

Elizabeth graduated from Middlebury College with a BA in environmental chemistry and a minor in global health in 2023. Her background is in environmental health and analytical chemistry. Elizabeth is eager to contribute to innovative research that focuses on women’s health and health equity.

Erin earned her BS in Health Sciences from Boston University and is working towards her MPH in epidemiology & biostatistics. With her background in epidemiological research and environmental policy, Erin is passionate about reproductive health equity and dedicated to promoting better health outcomes for participants.