Maayan Yitshak-Sade

Maayan Yitshak-Sade, PhD

About Me

Maayan Yitshak Sade, MPH, PhD, is an epidemiologist with a primary research interest in environmental health. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also a member of the Mount Sinai Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics. Dr. Yitshak Sade received her bachelor’s degree in nursing, her master’s in public health, and her PhD in epidemiology from Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Her research program centers on the interrelationship between multiple environmental and built environment exposures, including climate and air pollution, and cardiometabolic health. She investigates the complex health effects of exposure mixtures in large-scale cohorts using novel satellite-based exposure models. Additionally, she is exploring the varying impacts of air pollutant mixtures on morbidity, mortality, and life expectancy across demographic and socioeconomic population groups in the U.S.

Language
English
Position
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Environmental Medicine & Public Health