{"id":91,"date":"2025-03-28T17:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.gatewayexposome.org\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:56:56","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.gatewayexposome.org\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About Us<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center (GECC) advances research on the various environmental exposures over the life course \u2014 known as the \u201cexposome\u201d \u2014 that affect Alzheimer\u2019s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) risk, resilience, and disparities. Currently, accessing and sharing exposome data among government agencies, researchers, advocacy groups, and businesses is challenging. The GECC aims to address these issues by facilitating collaboration and consensus-building across disciplines, and serving as a hub for collecting, organizing, and sharing exposome data for AD\/ADRD research. We concentrate on six main domains: climate, physical environment, social environment, policy environment, community services environment, and life experiences. By creating a collaborative platform across these focuses, we help improve knowledge and understanding of AD\/ADRD, which can drive policy changes and provide better data for future research. The GECC is funded by the National Institute on Aging. Our interdisciplinary team is based at the Center for Economic and Social Research, the University of Southern California and partner institutions around the world.
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Our Team<\/h3>\n\n\n

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS<\/h5>\n
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\n Jinkook Lee\n
Jinkook Lee<\/h5>\n

University of Southern California<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Sara Adar\n
Sara Adar<\/h5>\n

University of Michigan School of Public Health<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n David Knapp\n
David Knapp<\/h5>\n

University of Southern California<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n <\/div>\n

OPERATIONS<\/h5>\n
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\n Maya Fransz-Myers\n
Maya Fransz-Myers<\/h5>\n

Center Coordinator
University of Southern California<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Ava Bindas\n
Ava Bindas<\/h5>\n

Communications Coordinator
University of Southern California<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n McKayla Wenner\n
McKayla Wenner<\/h5>\n

Policy and Community Services Environment Domain Coordinator
University of Southern California<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Eden Wetzel\n
Eden Wetzel<\/h5>\n

Life Experiences Domain Coordinator
University of Southern California<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Katherine Francois\n
Katherine Francois<\/h5>\n

Climate, Physical, and Social Environment Domain Coordinator
University of Michigan School of Public Health<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n <\/div>\n

DOMAIN LEADS<\/h5>\n
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\n Gregory Wellenius\n
Gregory Wellenius<\/h5>\n

Climate Domain Lead
Boston University<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Jeffrey Brook\n
Jeffrey Brook<\/h5>\n

Physical Environment Domain Co-Lead
University of Toronto<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Michael Brauer\n
Michael Brauer<\/h5>\n

Physical Environment Domain Co-Lead
University of British Columbia<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Margaret Hicken\n
Margaret Hicken<\/h5>\n

Social Environment Domain Lead
University of Michigan<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Mauricio Avendano\n
Mauricio Avendano<\/h5>\n

Policy Domain Lead
University of Lausanne<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n HwaJung Choi\n
HwaJung Choi<\/h5>\n

Community Services Domain Co-Lead
University of Michigan<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n David Van Riper\n
David Van Riper<\/h5>\n

Community Services Domain Co-Lead
University of Minnesota<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Sarah Flood\n
Sarah Flood<\/h5>\n

Life Experiences Domain Co-Lead
University of Minnesota<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Shrikanth Narayanan\n
Shrikanth Narayanan<\/h5>\n

Life Experiences Domain Co-Lead
University of Southern California<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Emma Nichols\n
Emma Nichols<\/h5>\n

Methods Lead
University of Southern California<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Bas Weerman\n
Bas Weerman<\/h5>\n

IT Director
University of Southern California<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Lorna Thorpe\n
Lorna Thorpe<\/h5>\n

Dissemination Co-Lead
NYU Grossman School of Medicine<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Marc Gourevitch\n
Marc Gourevitch<\/h5>\n

Dissemination Co-Lead
NYU Grossman School of Medicine<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n <\/div>\n

INVESTIGATIVE TEAM<\/h5>\n
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\n Kayleigh Keller\n
Kayleigh Keller<\/h5>\n

Colorado State University<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Erik Meijer\n
Erik Meijer<\/h5>\n

University of Southern California<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Birgit G. Claus Henn\n
Birgit G. Claus Henn<\/h5>\n

Boston University<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Yao-Yi Chiang\n
Yao-Yi Chiang<\/h5>\n

University of Minnesota<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Lucy Hutyra\n
Lucy Hutyra<\/h5>\n

Boston University<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Emma Gause\n
Emma Gause<\/h5>\n

Boston University<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Chad Milando\n
Chad Milando<\/h5>\n

Boston University<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Kevin Lane\n
Kevin Lane<\/h5>\n

Boston University<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Dany Doiron\n
Dany Doiron<\/h5>\n

McGill University<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Cl\u00e9mence Kieny\n
Cl\u00e9mence Kieny<\/h5>\n

University of Lausanne<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n \n

\n Ben Spoer\n
Ben Spoer<\/h5>\n

NYU Grossman School of Medicine<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\n <\/div>\n\n