Helen Suh

Helen Suh

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Helen Suh

Research/Areas of Interest

Environmental health, environmental epidemiology, air pollution, extreme weather, exposure science, data analytics

Education

  • Sc.D., Harvard University, United States, 1993
  • M.S., Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, 1990
  • S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, 1985

Biography

Helen Suh is an internationally-recognized expert in air pollution health effects, having led multidisciplinary teams in environmental exposure science and epidemiology for over 30 years. Her work has been published in numerous papers in leading scientific journals. Suh performs advisory work in environmental health for numerous local, national, and international organizations, having previously served as a member of the charter U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and National Institute of Health, National Academy of Science, and Institute of Medicine Committees. She also served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology and a reviewer for scientific journals.

Helen Suh's research focuses on the impact of air pollutant exposures on dementia and cognitive performance and cardiovascular health and of extreme weather on health resiliency and the development of large-scale data modeling methods to predict air pollutant concentrations.