#  Marissa Childs 

Environmental Fellow: 2022-2024

PhD, Environment and Resources, Stanford University

 

 

 



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 email <mchilds@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

 *Marissa Childs researches the health effects of environmental change, focusing on both infectious disease transmission and environmental pollutants.*

 Marissa received her PhD from the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University and received a BA in Mathematics and Economics - Environmental Studies from Whitman College. Her work brings together approaches from disease ecology and climate econometrics to study the impacts of land-use change and climate change on health outcomes. Her dissertation research focuses on understanding the environmental conditions that align to predict yellow fever virus spillover from non-human primates to human populations, estimating the impact of small-scale gold mining on malaria transmission in the Brazilian Amazon, and quantifying wildfire smoke exposure in the United States.   
   
As an Environmental Fellow, Marissa works with Professors Francesca Dominici and Christopher Golden to study the effects of climate and land-use change in Madagascar, leveraging methods in causal inference to estimate the health impacts of these changes.

 Faculty Hosts: Francesca Dominici and Christopher Golden, HSPH



 

 

 





 

 

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