Get to know me

Dr. Briana N.C. Chronister is an environmental and spatial epidemiologist who is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health. During her doctoral and postdoctoral training, Dr. Chronister has worked with the Study of Secondary Exposures to Pesticides across Childhood, Adolescence and Adulthood (ESPINA) and Cyclical Alterations in Neurocognitive Performance and Mood Over Two Years in Relation to Pesticide Spray Seasons (ESPINA-EMCT) cohorts under the mentorship of Drs. Jose R. Suarez-Lopez and Raeanne C. Moore.

Her research is grounded in a GeoHealth framework, integrating geospatial, machine learning, remote sensing and epidemiologic methods to investigate factors that influence pesticide exposures, and their subsequent impacts on neurobehavioral and overall health across the lifespan in occupational and non-occupational populations.

During her doctoral program she was an inaugural predoctoral T32 trainee for the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) Training in Advanced Data Analytics for Behavioral and Social Sciences (TADA-BSSR) Program, and was a Hispanic Center of Excellence Scholar.

Education

University of California San Diego (UCSD) – San Diego State University (SDSU)

University of Notre Dame