Dr. Kathryn S. Tomsho received her PhD in Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Tomsho received her B.A. in Environmental Studies at Dickinson College, and her MPH at Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Tomsho’s prior experiences as a community organizer focused on environmental science led to her interest in the effective communication of environmental health data. Dr. Tomsho has been the Director of the Environmental Justice and Health Program, at Harvard School
of Public Health, since 2024. Dr. Tomsho is interested in research focused on environmental exposure data report-back and environmental health literacy.
Gary Adamkiewicz, Ph.D., M.P.H., directs the Healthy Cities Lab and serves as an Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He oversees several research initiatives aimed at providing new insights into the real-world mechanisms that drive environmental health disparities and developing pathways to mitigate these disparities. Dr. Adamkiewicz has served on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental Justice Technical Guidance Review Panel under the agency’s Science Advisory Board. He has also advised the World Health Organization (WHO) on establishing indoor air quality guidelines. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. Tamarra James-Todd is the Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr. James-Todd’s research focuses on the link between environmental chemical exposures and the risk of diabetes, obesity, and related cardiovascular diseases among women during the perinatal period and beyond. She places a particular emphasis on racial and ethnic disparities in environmental exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes.
She has served on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Scientific Advisory Board for the Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Gulf War and Health. Dr. James-Todd is the Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded ERGO study, a prospective cohort study examining the role of environmental factors on pregnancy and postpartum health. She also served as the Principal Investigator of the Greater New York Hair Products Study.
Dr. James-Todd earned her B.S. in Molecular Biology from Vanderbilt University, her M.P.H. in International Health from Boston University, and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Columbia University.
