Hi, I’m Annie

I’m an environmental health scientist and environmental epidemiologist. My work focuses on understanding the relationship between metal exposures (arsenic, mercury, lead, etc.) and related disease, and on assessing population-level metal exposures using both biological and environmental monitoring.

I am most invested in and motivated by projects that:

Inform and evaluate federal regulations intended to reduce environmental exposures and related adverse health outcomes,
Are community- owned/directed/managed, or
Assess environmental injustices and aim to ultimately eliminate health disparities.

I’m currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and am involved with the Columbia University Superfund Research Program. I hold a Ph.D in Environmental Health Sciences from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health (2020), a Sc.M. in Environmental Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2016), and a B.A. in Biology from Oberlin College (2014), where I also studied Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies.

“Health is a human right. The public health community exists to safeguard that right.”

Anne (Annie) Nigra, ScM, PhD
Dept of Environmental Health Sciences
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
722 West 168th St, Rm 1107, New York, NY 10032
Pronouns: she/her/hers
724-759-0109
aen2136@cumc.columbia.edu