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Center for Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology

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	Ana Baylin BioMed Center for Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology Dr. Baylin is primarily interested in the emerging burden of chronic disease in developing countries, in particular, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes, which have started to exceed those in developed countries. Her current research focuses on the interaction between genes and diet on the risk of myocardial infarction. By studying the effect of nutrition and genes on cardiovascular disease, she is trying to identify strategies for the prevention of chronic disease that may be successful in developing countries.
	Stephen Buka Community Health, Department of Center for Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology Stephen Buka, Sc.D. is an epidemiologist and developmental psychologist whose work focuses on the causes, development and prevention of major psychiatric and cognitive disorders. Current studies include investigations of prenatal risks for schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder and addictive disorders, including neuroimaging and molecular genetics techniques; and community-level influences on youth substance use and delinquency. He directs the New England Family Study, a 50-year, three-generation longitudinal study of 17,000 infants born in New England in the 1960s, and Brown's Center for Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology.
	Jasmina Burdzovic Andreas Community Health, Department of Center for Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology Dr. Burdzovic Andreas' main interests are in the broad area of developmental psychopathology, and in the specific processes of developmental risk, resilience, and protective factors. While traditional research primarily has explored the question of "why" children develop behavioral and mental health problems, Dr. Burdzovic Andreas has primarily been attracted to the question of why many of them do not show negative outcomes, even when there are many reasons we would expect them to.
	Eric Loucks Center for Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology My research agenda is to identify health-relevent biological pathways by which social circumstances (such as educational attainment, childhood economic distress, and quality of parental care) influence health outcomes such as heart disease and type II diabetes.
	Elizabeth Triche Community Health, Department of Center for Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology