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Francine Laden, Sc.D.

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Biography
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MassachusettsMS1993
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MassachusettsScD1998
1998 - 2023
Sigma Xi, Associate Member
1994 - 1996
National Research Award in Cancer Epidemiology
2002
Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute
2011
Alice Hamilton Lectureship
2019
John A. Rock Scholar honorarium
2022
Marianne Wessling-Resnick Memorial Mentoring Award

Overview
Dr. Francine Laden is Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and the Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Dr. Laden received her ScD in Epidemiology and MS in Environmental Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Her research interests focus on the environmental epidemiology of chronic diseases, including cancer, respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Her research has or is concentrated on the following categories of exposures: air pollution (from ambient and occupational sources), persistent organic pollutants (POPs; organochlorines), secondhand smoke, and the contextual environment (e.g. built environment and green spaces). She is specifically interested in the geographic distribution of disease risk, incorporating geographic information system technology into large cohort studies to explore risk factors such as the built environment and indicators of socioeconomic status, as well as air pollution. She has published key papers on the association of ambient particulate matter and all cause and cardiovascular mortality in the landmark Harvard Six Cities Study and the Nurses’ Health Study and on the association of diesel exhaust exposures and lung cancer mortality in the trucking industry.

She is currently Co-Director of the Harvard and Boston University Environmental Disparities Center: Center for Research on Environmental and Social Stressors in Housing Across the Life Course (CRESSH). The mission of the Center is to study environmental health disparities in low-income communities and throughout Massachusetts. Dr. Laden is a past member of the EPA Science Advisory Board, Past President of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, and the Associate Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard Chan School.

Research
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  1. R01ES029840 (LADEN, FRANCINE) Apr 2, 2019 - Mar 31, 2024
    NIH
    Early life exposure to the natural, built, and social environments and incident hypertension
    Role: Principal Investigator
  2. R24ES028521 (CHAVARRO, JORGE EDUARDO;LADEN, FRANCINE) Sep 30, 2018 - Jun 30, 2024
    NIH
    Nurses Health Study 3: A multiple exposure environmental epidemiology cohort of young adults
    Role: Principal Investigator
  3. R01ES028033 (DOMINICI, FRANCESCA ;LADEN, FRANCINE) Dec 15, 2017 - Nov 30, 2023
    NIH
    Relationship Between Multiple Environmental Exposures and CVD Incidence and Survival: Vulnerability and Susceptibility
    Role: Principal Investigator
  4. P50MD010428 (LADEN, FRANCINE) Jul 24, 2015 - Aug 31, 2021
    NIH
    Disparities in Exposure and Health Effects of Multiple Environmental Stressors Across the Life Course
    Role: Principal Investigator
  5. R13ES019429 (LADEN, FRANCINE) Jul 1, 2010 - Jun 30, 2011
    NIH
    2010 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE ISES-ISEE, SEOUL, KOREA
    Role: Principal Investigator

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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.