Julia Anglen Bauer, PhD, MS '15
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact
Building & Room:
949 SPHPI
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1603 W. Taylor St.
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About
Dr. Julia Anglen Bauer studies how environmental exposures impact neurological outcomes across the life course. Her work spans investigating chemical exposures during pregnancy and child brain development, to mid-life exposures and risk of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in later life. Dr. Bauer's mission is to study these associations in communities that are disproportionately affected by environmental pollution, or individuals who are at higher risk of disease (racial minorities and sex differences) or are at an age of heightened susceptibility to exposure. Her work includes using environmental mixtures statistical methods and molecular biomarkers of environmental exposure. Dr. Bauer is taking doctoral students in the Occupational Environmental Epidemiology program and students with interest in environmental health and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (T32 training program).
Key words: environmental health; environmental epidemiology; molecular epidemiology; neurodevelopment; children's health; Alzheimer's Disease; Parkinson's Disease; Multiple Sclerosis; Bayesian kernel machine regression;
Selected Publications
Bauer et al., “Associations of a Metal Mixture Measured in Multiple Biomarkers with IQ: Evidence from Italian Adolescents Living Near Ferroalloy Industry ”. Environmental Health Perspectives. September 2020. org/10.1289/EHP6803
Bauer et al., “Deciduous teeth from the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study: Infant feeding and Pb in water predict dentin elements.” Environmental Research. May 2024.
Bauer et al., “Sex-specific associations of prenatal metal exposures with longitudinal child behavior in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study”. Exposure and Health. March 2023.
Bauer et al., “Critical windows of susceptibility in the association between manganese and neurocognition in Italian adolescents living near ferro-manganese industry.” Neurotoxicology. December 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuro.2021.08.014
Bauer et al., “Associations of metals and neurodevelopment: a review of recent evidence on susceptibility factors”. Current Epidemiology Reports. October 30th, 2020. doi.org/10.1007/s40471-020-00249-y
Bauer et al., “Manganese in teeth and neurobehavior: sex-specific windows of susceptibility”. Environment International. November 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2017.08.013.
Anglen et al., “Occupational mercury exposure in association with prevalence of multiple sclerosis and tremor among US dentists. The Journal of the American Dental Association. September 2015.146(9), pp.659-668.
Buchanan et al., “Methyl mercury exposure in populations at risk: Analysis of NHANES 2011–2012.” Environmental research140 (2015): 56-64.
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Professional Leadership
Mentor, UIC Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Doctoral Program
Mentor, UIC Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Training Program (T32)
Co-Leader, Chicago Center for Health and Environment (CACHET), Biomarkers of Exposure, Effect and Susceptibility (BEES)
Education
Post-doctoral training, Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
PhD, Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, 2020
MS, Epidemiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2015
BS, Biomedical Sciences with honors, Colorado State University, 2010
BA, Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Spanish conc.) with honors, Colorado State University, 2010
Professional Memberships
UIC Clinical and Translational Science (KL2), Fellow
UIC Center for Health Equity and Cognitive Aging (RCMAR), Fellow
International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)
International Society of Exposure Science (ISES)