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Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health
University of California, Irvine
Verónica Vieira is Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of California, Irvine. She received her B.S. from MIT (1998) and her M.S. from Stanford University (2000), both in Environmental Engineering, and her D.Sc. in Environmental Health (2003) from Boston University. Her research involves spatiotemporal analyses of health data for examining the contributions of known risk factors and environmental exposures to the underlying geographic pattern of disease risk including cancer and birth outcomes. She works extensively with reconstructing historic environmental exposures using GIS and has an extensive knowledge of groundwater modeling and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical involved in the manufacturing of Teflon. Dr. Vieira has been funded through the Superfund Research Program for over 15 years, where she investigates spatial and chemical/non-chemical patterns of ADHD-related behaviors and risk-taking behaviors among children living the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site using generalized additive models (MapGAM). Her work also includes international collaborations with researchers in France, Sweden, Portugal, Denmark, and Italy.
Thursday, June 17, 2021
9:00am – 11:30am US EDT