Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD
Professor of Climate and Population Studies
Chair, Department of Environmental Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Description: Dr. Nadeau’s talk will focus on the current state of exposomics research and its application in preventing and treating disease. She will discuss the tools and information from different fields such as toxicology, environmental science, medical care, epidemiology, computational science, artificial intelligence, and molecular medicine that are currently used for understanding the totality of how the exposome affects human health. She will also provide an overview of the statistical and bioinformatic tools that have developed in parallel to methodological tools that have enabled us to associate exposures to biological response. Finally, she will discuss the challenges that lie ahead in translating exposome research to clinical practice and disease prevention.
About the speaker: Dr. Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD is Chair and John Rock Professor of the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, aProfessor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. She leads the Allergy, Extreme Weather and Exposomics Laboratory, where her team investigates how environmental exposures- including allergens, wildfire smoke, air pollution, and microplastics – impact the immune system across the lifespan. Her research integrates exposomics (the comprehensive study of all environmental exposures) with immunology and epigenetics to understand and mitigate environmentally associated diseases like asthma and allergies. Dr. Nadeau actively engages in policy: she works with global health organizations (e.g., WHO, UN), serves on U.S. EPA advisory committees, and translates her findings into actionable health strategies.
She earned her MD/PhD from Harvard Medical School and completed her clinical training in pediatrics and immunology. Dr. Nadeau is also practicing allergist and immunologist, caring for both children and adults.
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Field Auditorium, Room 1112, Grainger Hall (9 Circuit Drive, Durham, NC)
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