Tara McAlexander, PhD, MPH

Assistant Research Professor of Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University

Tara McAlexander, PhD, MPH is an environmental epidemiologist with research interests in how environmental factors in the built and natural environment impact chronic disease outcomes in a range of community types in the United States. Her work focuses on environmental exposures related to air pollution, noise, green space, industrial oil and gas activities, heat, the food environment, and neighborhood deprivation. In particular, Dr. McAlexander is focused on utilizing methods that account for co-clustering of multiple environmental risk factors in neighborhoods and across urban and rural areas in the United States to address measurement and inferential challenges in the environmental epidemiology of chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and cognitive decline. Ultimately, these research interests feed into a goal of reducing health disparities that may be exacerbated by climate change.

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