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UPDATED: Health Impacts of the Built Environment and Air Quality Through the Lenses of Epigenetics and Electronic Health Records

Headshot of seminar speaker, Cavin Ward-Caviness, PhD.
Friday, September 24, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Cavin Ward-Caviness, PhD, US EPA
Integrated Toxicology & Environmental Health Seminar Series

Environmental epidemiology is being rapidly transformed by the wealth of data now available. Electronic health records are empowering studies of vulnerable patient populations with sample sizes and depths of clinical phenotyping previously unavailable. Meanwhile molecular data, like genome-wide DNA methylation assays, allow researchers to investigate the molecular effects of pollutants in human populations - thereby generating novel hypotheses for future mechanistic studies. In this talk we will explore how electronic health records are being used to make new insights into health effects of poor air quality for heart failure patients as well as how epigenetic biomarkers constructed from genome-wide DNA methylation assays are enabling new studies of the health effects of the built environment.

**UPDATE 9/16/21: THIS SEMINAR WILL BE REMOTE-ONLY (ZOOM):
-Register for Zoom link: https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvdeyqrD0iH9NF7KY2XJFr25uq005S0Q3R

Contact: Alexis Sharp