About

I am a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Climate, Health and Healthcare at Rutgers University, where I study how climate exposures — extreme heat, wildfire smoke, PM2.5 — interact with medication use to shape health outcomes in vulnerable populations. My work links national Medicaid data with gridded climate data to examine drug-environment interactions with direct policy implications.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, where I conducted comparative effectiveness studies using electronic health records from Penn Medicine.

I completed my doctoral training at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health in Philadelphia, under the mentorship of Dr. Jane Clougherty. My dissertation examined how social and environmental factors modify the efficacy of pharmaceutical treatments for asthma — bringing an environmental science lens to questions that clinical research has typically treated in isolation.

Prior to Drexel, I earned a Master of Public Health from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the City College of New York.

My interest in environmental health and health equity took shape through a fellowship with the Puerto Rico IPE Service Learning Program, where I worked with a community team on a participatory research project in San Juan. That experience grounded my commitment to research that is rigorous, reproducible, and relevant to the communities it aims to serve.

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Outside of research, I am usually hosting friends for dinner, tending to my garden, baking, or reading fiction.