Wednesday, November 8 | Noon-1:00 PM

In-Person:  University of Rhode Island, Avedisian Hall, Room #130

Zoom: https://uri-edu.zoom.us/j/3153887796

Dr. Dania Valvi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and the Co-director of the MS in Epidemiology program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research is focused on the impacts of the exposome on the initiation and progression of metabolic diseases in childhood and adulthood. Her longitudinal cohort studies leverage novel ‘omics’-based approaches (e.g., exposomics, metabolomics, genomics) to advance the understanding of disease mechanisms, gene–environment interactions, and the identification of biomarkers for the early detection of environmental disease in multiethnic populations. Prior to joining Mount Sinai in 2019, Dr. Valvi was a research scientist in ISGlobal–Barcelona, Spain, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston where she also completed her postdoctoral fellowship in environmental health and participated in the URI’s ‘Sources, Transport, Exposure & Effects of PFAS – STEEP’ center as a trainee.

Hosted by the URI STEEP Superfund Research Program and the URI College of Pharmacy.