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A breath of fresh air: Meredith Franklin uses satellite data to assess environmental exposures<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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By Cristine Hall<\/p>\n

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Proving a link between toxic airborne substances in war zones and resulting respiratory illness has been a challenge for many veterans who were deployed in Southwest Asia during post 9\/11 wars. Deployment to this region exposed servicemembers with a multitude of airborne hazards including dust, military vehicle exhaust, and open burn pits, which were used to dispose of waste. Heath effects of these exposures were compounded by other stressors of being in a combat environment, such as heat and noise.<\/p>\n

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Meredith Franklin, PhD, an associate professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, is changing that by developing a tool to make it easier for clinicians and epidemiologists to characterize the toxins veterans are exposed to when deployed. Her research, in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Veterans Administration, uses retrospective satellite data to get a picture of what was happening in regions where servicemembers were deployed.
\n Meredith Franklin (courtesy of Meredith Franklin)
\n\u201cThis project has real-world impact on veterans\u2019 health and their quality of life that I find very rewarding,\u201d said Franklin, who started and is director of the Master of Science in Public Health Data Science Program, which integrates biostatistics, epidemiology and computer science.  <\/p>\n

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Franklin, who is from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, studied Mathematics and Chemistry at McGill University and Statistics at Carleton University before working on environmental health projects for the Canadian government. It wasn\u2019t until she went to Harvard University\u2019s School of Public Health that she combined her interests for a PhD in statistics and environmental health.<\/p>\n

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She came to Population and Public Health Sciences in 2010 and launched the Master of Science in Public Health Data Science Program in response to a high demand among biostatistics students for computer science courses and machine learning.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA lot of big biotech companies are looking for data scientists who can deal with and learn from large data sets, such as electronic medical records,\u201d she said. \u201cWe train students how to do these data science techniques. Through this program we do a practicum where students get hands-on work with industry to be prepared for the workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The quality of research and the faculty success at Population and Public Health Sciences was a big draw for Franklin. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of collaboration across Divisions in our Department,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019re always working as a team to conduct cutting-edge research.\u201d<\/p>\n

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