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About Our Research

The Equity, Environment, and Epidemiology lab uses epidemiologic research methods to learn more about how environmental contaminants impact health with the ideal that all people should have access to an environment where they live, work and play which enhances rather than impairing their health.

Learn more about two major research areas:

Selected Ongoing Studies

We are conducting a community-engaged research project in collaboration with Blackford County Concerned Citizens. For this project we conducted an online survey about health and public health issues, and for a subset of these people we also asked about environmental risk factors and collected soil, dust, urine, and toenail samples to test for metals.

We will be holding a community meeting about our study results on April 20, 2024!

We have a series of interdisciplinary pilot studies to explore how environmental factors (including metals and pesticides) may interact with genetics to increase the risk or severity of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, or others.