Bio
Emma holds a MPH in Environmental Health with a certificate in Global Health from Columbia University, and a BA in Behavioral Neuroscience from Colgate University. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked as a research analyst at the Global Policy Lab at UC Berkeley where she modeled nonpoint source water pollution at a high spatial resolution. During her MPH, she spent six months working as a WASH Fellow in Malawi, where she contributed to data-driven programming to promote food security during a national state of emergency. This was precipitated by her time at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, during which she researched how factors such as agricultural intensification, demographics, and market-demand influenced crop yield in rural Africa.
Currently, she is interested in quantifying the causal relationship between large-scale, anthropogenic changes to the environment and human health outcomes. She aims to use tools from machine learning, econometrics, and epidemiology to evaluate and inform environmental policy and public health interventions. She is a NSF Graduate Research Fellow and a Stanford EDGE Fellow.
Personal Interests
running, trivia, hiking, kayaking, crossword puzzle solving + constructing
