DrRobbie Parks

Honorary Research Associate

School of Public Health - Faculty of Medicine

BIO

Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University, New York:

I am an environmental epidemiologist who has diverse experience in large-scale multi-disciplinary quantitative research focused on climate-related exposures, public health and equity. I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and an NIH NIEHS K99/R00 Fellow. I am also the Lead Instructor of the Columbia University SHARP Course Bayesian Modeling for Environmental Health. I was a Columbia University Earth Institute/Climate School Post-doctoral Fellow from 2019 to 2022 with Prof. Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, completed my PhD at the School of Public Health at Imperial College London with Profs. Majid Ezzati and Ralf Toumi in 2019, and graduated with a BA/MA (Oxon) in Physics from the Keble College, University of Oxford. I am proudly both a first-gen academic and an Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Fellow.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    Columbia University, School of Public Health, New York, United States1 May 2023 - present

DEGREES

  • BA
    University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom3 Oct 2005 - 30 Jun 2008
  • PhD
    Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom4 Oct 2015 - 31 Aug 2019

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • NIH NIEHS K99/R00 Fellow
    Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, United States1 Feb 2022 - 31 Mar 2023
    Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Earth Institute Post-doctoral Fellow
    Columbia University, Earth Institute, New York, United States2 Sep 2019 - 31 Jan 2022

LANGUAGES

  • German
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Medicine

POSITION NAME

  • Honorary Research Associate

FIELDS OF RESEARCH