Epidemiology and Community Health Branch

The mission of the Epidemiology and Community Health Branch (ECHB) is to deploy innovative multimodality ascertainment and analytical approaches with a unifying focus on the phenotypic expressions of heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) diseases, their occurrence and outcomes in populations.

The ECHB leverages interdisciplinary collaborations and applies methods grounded in epidemiology, population surveillance, and ‘multi-omics’. In doing so, the ECHB works on elucidating the mechanisms of HLBS diseases in the context of aging, multimorbidity, and social determinants of health in populations.

Our Labs

Heart Disease Phenomics

The Laboratory of Heart Disease Phenomics focuses on defining clinical and biological heart disease phenotypes, their determinants, and associated outcomes in populations with the goal of advancing treatment and prevention.

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Genomic Instability and Cardiopulmonary Outcomes

The Laboratory of Genomic Instability and Cardiopulmonary Outcomes conducts multidisciplinary epidemiologic studies aimed at explaining the biological mechanisms by which exposures influence cardiopulmonary disease risk and progression in humans, with focus on genomic instability, investigates whether the impact of exposures on cardiopulmonary outcomes differ across racial/ethnic groups and by geographic location, and assesses how atmospheric conditions characteristic of climate change affect cardiopulmonary outcomes in humans.

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