Our Team

Principal Investigators:

**Madeleine Scammell, DSc**

Madeleine Scammell is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health and a resident of Chelsea, MA. She studies exposure to heat, metals and pesticides among workers in Central America and leads the Mesoamerican Nephropathy Occupational Study (MANOS). Her research is community-based with a focus on developing research methods that incorporate community perspectives using the tools of epidemiology and risk analysis.

**Patricia Fabian, ScD**

Patricia Fabian is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Health Department at Boston University School of Public Health. Her research spans the fields of environmental health and engineering, respiratory infectious disease transmission, system sciences and geographical information systems (GIS), with a focus on asthma, indoor air, housing and other aspects of the built environment. She co-directs this project with Dr. Madeleine Scammell, and is interested in understanding the role housing plays in exposure to heat in order to design equitable adaptation strategies.

Research Team Members:

**Leila Heidari, MPH**

Leila Heidari is a PhD Candidate in the Boston University School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health. Her research focuses on environmental epidemiology, climate adaptation and mitigation, the built environment and health, and environmental justice.

**Alina McIntyre, MHS**

Alina McIntyre is a PhD Candidate in the Boston University School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health. Her work focuses on air quality, extreme heat, and community-engaged research.

**Pilar Botana Martinez**

Pilar Botana Martinez is a PhD Student Boston University School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health.

**Angela Magardino, MPH**

Angela’s research interests focus on how physical and social environments influence disparities in health and well-being. Angela has experience designing questionnaires as well as working with families and vulnerable populations. She is passionate about advocating for environmental, climate, reproductive, and child health justice as well as transforming the structures underlying racial and health inequities. She earned a Master in Public Health in Environmental Health from Boston University.

**Bianca Bowman, Climate Justice Coordinator at GreenRoots**

Bianca is passionate about building community knowledge, power, and leadership to combat the unequal distribution of the effects of climate change. At GreenRoots, she leads and supports projects that focus on centering resident involvement and perspectives in advancing community climate resilience and adaptation. Bianca loves working with community members and coworkers to improve the ability of EJ populations to safely navigate increasing summer heat temperatures, flood impacts, and decarbonization efforts that threaten to leave low- and middle-income folks and people of color behind in the clean energy transition. She is originally from the Washington, DC area and graduated from the College of William & Mary in Virginia. She studied English Literature and Environmental Science & Policy, and also has a background in community-based citizen science research, environmental field work and forest fire management work.

**Barbara Espinosa Barrera, MPH**

Barbara recently graduated from the Boston University School of Public Health where she earned a Master in Public Health in Environmental Health. She is passionate about making science and health information accessible to everyone. She is looking forward to working with Chelsea and East Boston residents to promote health equity in her role as the Environmental Justice and Health Equity Organizer. In her free time you can find her reading, taking walks, and playing soccer.

**Roseann Bongiovanni, Executive Director at GreenRoots**

Roseann Bongiovanni is the executive director of GreenRoots, the Chelsea-based environmental justice organization and collaborator on the C-HEAT project. She has her master’s in public health from Boston University.

**Patrick L. Kinney, ScD**

Patrick Kinney is a Professor of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. At Boston University, Kinney’s work includes program development for urban climate action plans. His research focuses on climate change, health, and policy.

**Jonathan Levy, ScD**

Jonathan Levy is a Professor of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is a co-director of the Center for Research on Environmental and Social Stressors in Housing Across the Life Course (CRESSH) and his research is focused on spatiotemporal exposure patterns, environmental justice, and working with urban environmental exposures and associated health risks.

Former Research Team Members:

Chad Milando, PhD, Research Scientist

Chad Milando is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Boston University School of Public Health. His research focuses on developing and employing computational tools to investigate harmful environmental exposures among human populations, with a specific focus on exposures among vulnerable populations. For this project, he is working to develop new techniques for measuring exposure to heat during the summer months, especially relevant during this time of “physical distancing.”

Flannery Black-Ingersoll

Flannery Black-Ingersoll is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Environmental Health. Originally from Concord, NH, Flannery graduated from Bates College with a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Visual Arts. In 2021, Flannery obtained a Master of Public Health from Boston University in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Fun fact: Flannery has a cat named Stuart!

Student Research Assistants:

Michael Hagen

Michael Hagen was a Boston University undergraduate student majoring in Health Sciences and minoring in Environmental Policy & Analysis during his time with C-HEAT.

Julie de Lange

Julie deLange was an undergraduate student at Sargent College getting a B.S. in Health Science during her time with C-HEAT.

Abgel Negassa

Abgel Negassa was an undergraduate student at Sargent College getting her B.S. in Health Science with a minor in Biology and African-American Studies during her time with C-HEAT.