Jill Baumgartner
Jill Baumgartner is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health at ±«ÓãÖ±²¥. She also is an Associate Member of the ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ School of Environment. Dr. Baumgartner studies exposure to environmental pollutants and their affect on human health in the context of urbanization and development. She holds a joint Ph.D. in Population Health Sciences and Environment & Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Masters in Population and International Health from Harvard University. She was a Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow at the Institute on the Environment (University of Minnesota) from 2011-2013 and a visiting researcher at Tsinghua University in 2012.Â
Research interests: (1) evaluating the health benefits of energy and environmental interventions in developing countries; (2) investigating the impacts of air pollution composition and sources on health; (3) understanding the chronic disease impacts of environmental exposures over the life course.