Youssef Oulhote, PhD

Dr. Youssef Oulhote is Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and a member of the Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He received his Engineering degree from the National Institute of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences in Morocco, a Master’s degree in Risk Assessment from the AgroParisTech Engineering School in France, and a PhD from the French National School of Public Health. He is a US NIH Outstanding New Environmental Scientists (ONES) grantee, an expert at the French Agency of the Environment, Nutrition, and Safety agency (ANSES) and appointed to the expert committee of the African Union Scientific, Research, and Innovation Council.

As an epidemiologist, Dr. Oulhote’s research focuses on the health effects of early life exposures to metals (e.g. mercury, lead, and manganese) and endocrine disruptors (e.g. PBDEs, PFAS, and phthalates), with an emphasis on children’s cognitive and behavioral functions. Dr. Oulhote also investigates the application of machine learning techniques within a causal inference framework to explore the interplay of environmental, nutritional, and social factors, and how these exposures interact to impact population health.