Michael Leung

Michael Leung is a postdoctoral research fellow for the Football Players Health Study at Harvard University. He received his MSc in epidemiology at Queen’s University, Canada, and an MS in biostatistics and PhD in epidemiology at Harvard University. His current work focuses on how environmental stressors such as air pollution and radiation contamination affect health throughout the life course. Examples of his work include how exposures during pregnancy such as air pollution, temperature, and wildfires influence pregnancy and child outcomes; how infant growth affects mid-childhood outcomes; and in adult populations, how environmental factors like radiological contamination impact cardiometabolic conditions and cancer. He is an advocate for clear causal thinking and is always happy to discuss directed acyclic graphs for causal inference.

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