Kristen Malecki, PhD, MPH

Kristen Malecki, PhD, MPH, is  Professor and Division Director of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences in the UIC School of Public Health. She joined UIC in 2022. Her translational environmental health research focuses on the examination of the combined impacts of chemical (air pollution, water pollution), physical and social stressors, and their influence on adult chronic diseases, aging and health disparities. Her research uses emerging multi-omic tools including epigenetics, transcriptomics, and the microbiome to identify interim biomarkers of exposure and response for cancer prevention and control.

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Malecki Publishes in JCI

University of Illinois Cancer Center member Kristen Malecki, MPH, PhD, is the corresponding author of a study published the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI) that builds on growing research f…

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Hoskins, Malecki in JAMA Network Open

The journal JAMA Network Open published a study, “Socioecologic Factors and Racial Differences in Breast Cancer Multigene Prognostic Scores in US Women,” from University of Illinois Can…

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Cancer Center Members on Climate and Equity

University of Illinois Cancer Center members and University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) researchers are among the featured speakers at GreenTown Climate & Equity, an event that will bring togethe…

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