Experts Guide

Bulka is an environmental and molecular epidemiologist. Her research interests include the health effects of exposures to chemical pollutants such as metals and metalloids, perfluorinated substances, toxins and other inorganic contaminants, especially exposures that occur early in life.

Bakour is an expert in adverse childhood experiences, sleep epidemiology, chronic diseases, child and adolescent health. Specifically, she studies the effect of sleep duration and quality on the risk and progression of chronic diseases, and the impact of adverse childhood experiences on sleep, mental health and the risk of chronic diseases in adulthood.

Michael is an epidemiologist who studies the spread and control of global infectious diseases. population biology, computational disease dynamics and the ecology of disease transmission. His work includes the development and implementation of novel analytical and computational approaches for providing a deeper understanding of the determinants, pathways and dynamics of disease transmission.

Salemi is an epidemiologist and an expert in maternal and child health, birth defects, public health surveillance and data systems, health data linkages and data visualization.

Izurieta is an expert in tropical and infectious diseases whose research focuses on vectorborne and waterborne diseases, vaccinology and ecological changes and emerging diseases. He is director of the Donald Price Parasitology Center, and serves as a consultant for WASTE International (Netherlands) and Stockholm Environment Institute (Sweden).

Carney's research focuses on epidemiology, functional morphology, mosquito-borne diseases and paleontology. His epidemiology research primarily focuses on the surveillance and control of mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, West Nile virus and Zika. Through NSF- and NIH-funded global research collaborations with NASA and the CDC, he leads a team that identifies disease-spreading and invasive mosquitoes using artificial intelligence, along with citizen science data from three partner apps.