Group leader, Prof. Michael Jerrett, Professor and Chair, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley. Dr. Michael Jerrett is an internationally recognized expert in Geographic Information Science for Exposure Assessment and Spatial Epidemiology. He is a professor in and the chair of the Division of Environmental Health Science, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Jerrett earned his PhD in geography from the University of Toronto (Canada). For the past 15 years, Dr. Jerrett has researched how to characterize population exposures to air pollution and built environmental variables, the social distribution of these exposures among different groups (e.g., poor vs. wealthy), and how to assess the health effects from environmental exposures. He has published some of the most widely cited papers in the fields of Exposure Assessment and Environmental Epidemiology in leading journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America. Although he has investigated many health outcomes, he has focused on the long-term effects of air pollution on cardio-respiratory diseases. Over the decade, Dr. Jerrett has also studied the contribution of the built and natural environment to sedentary lifestyles and obesity. Dr. Jerrett is currently funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the European Commission on several studies that use cell-phone sensors to obtain personal monitoring information on physical activity, air pollution, and geographic location. He is also funded by the Centers for Disease Control to develop new methods for Spatial Epidemiology. In 2009, the United States National Academy of Science appointed Dr. Jerrett to the Committee on “Future of Human and Environmental Exposure Science in the 21st Century.”
Expertise: GIS, exposure and health assessment, spatial epidemiology, use of novel sensors to assess personal exposure
Role in the project: PI for partner 29, oversees the project and analyses, WP2, WP9, WP12, WP13
E-mail: jerrett@berkeley.edu
Websites: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/
