Ana Navas-acien
Professor
Environmental Health Sciences
Columbia University
United States of America
Biography
Ana Navas-Acien is a physician-epidemiologist with a specialty in Preventive Medicine and Public Health (Hospital La Paz, Madrid '01) and a PhD in Epidemiology (Johns Hopkins University '05). Her research investigates the long-term health effects of widespread environmental exposures (arsenic and other metals, tobacco smoke, e-cigarettes, air pollution), their interactions with genetic and epigenetic variants, and effective interventions for reducing involuntary environmental exposures.
Research Interest
Aging and Elderly, Clinical Trials, Intervention Studies, Longitudinal Studies, Survival Analysis, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease
Publications
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Tellez-Plaza M, Tang WY, Shang Y, Umans JG, Francesconi KA (2014) Association of global DNA methylation and global DNA hydroxymethylation with metals and other exposures in human blood DNA samples. Environ Health Perspect. 122: 946-954.
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Navas-Acien A, Jason G Umans, Barbara V Howard, Walter Goessler (2009) Urine arsenic concentrations and species excretion patterns in American Indian communities over a 10-year period - The Strong Heart Study. 117: 1428-1433.
