Recently EDGE members turned out in force to participate in the 2025 Joint Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Science and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology held in Atlanta, Georgia August 17-20. The theme of the meeting was “Global Environmental Health Equity Across the Lifespan.”
EDGE Director Joel Kaufman co-authored 14 presentations including talks titled “Outdoor PM2.5 components and risk of lung cancer in a large prospective U.S. cohort” and “The role of coronary artery calcification in metal-related cardiovascular disease.” He also shared his insights as Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Health Perspectives as part of a panel titled “Meet the editor.”
EDGE Deputy Director Edmund Seto co-authored eight presentations including talks titled “Traffic impact on air quality at the Otay Mesa Commercial Truck Port of Entry” and “Residential indoor PM2.5 exposure using low-cost sensors in Washington, Oregon and California: Source contributions and sociodemographic disparities.”
Catherine Karr, Director of the EDGE Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core, presented a talk titled “Making progress on primary and secondary lead poisoning prevention in Kenya” and co-authored another talk titled “Household food insecurity and blood lead levels in 12-month-olds from Dandora, Nairobi, Kenya,” as well as co-authoring nine posters.
Elena Austin, Co-Director of the EDGE Exposure Assessment, Biomarkers & Environmental Sensors Facility Core, shared a poster titled “Post-wildfire geospatial data collection in Los Angeles: Advancing public health research” and co-authored four other presentations, including a poster titled “A decision-support framework for efficient disaster research: rapid questionnaire design for perishable exposure and health data collection during wildfire events.”
EDGE member Joan Casey gave a talk titled “Using electronic health record data for a rapid response inquiry into the 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires.” She also co-authored 13 other talks and posters including “Long-term exposure to wildfire smoke and mortality: Heterogenous effects by exposure metric and vulnerable populations.”
Theo Bammler, Manager of EDGE’s Genomics, Bioinformatics & Biostatistics, Microphysiological Systems Facility Core, was a co-author on three posters including one titled “Associations of maternal blood biomarkers of prenatal acetaminophen exposure with placental gene expression and child attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).”
EDGE member Lianne Sheppard presented a poster titled “Practical guidance on mobile monitoring design for epidemiology: A case study.” She co-authored two other presentations including a talk titled “Ultrafine particle monitoring study designs for epidemiology: Cost and performance comparisons in various monitoring scenarios.”
EDGE member Christine Loftus presented a poster titled "Barriers and facilitators of early-life wildlife smoke protection in a rural, agricultural community: Implications for future interventions.” She also co-authored seven other presentations including a talk titled “Prenatal exposure to air pollution and emotional and behavioral outcomes in early childhood: Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort.”
EDGE member Ashleigh Theberge co-authored a poster titled “Enabling environmental exposure studies with transcriptomic endpoints in hard-to-reach demographics and extreme climates.”
EDGE Pilot Project Director Sheela Sathyanarayana co-authored four posters including one titled “Endocrine-disrupting chemicals in breast milk and early life exposure for infants in the United States.”
EDGE member Trang VoPham co-authored a poster titled “Glyphosate exposure and mortality in the United States.”
Many researchers attended with their graduate and post-doctoral students.
To see a complete list of presentations for each researcher, use the ISES/ISEE Interactive Program to search by name.
- Exposure Assessment and Biomarkers Environmental Sensing
- Exposure Sciences
- Environmental Epidemiology
