Maria Kamenetsky, PhD, MS

Maria Kamenetsky, PhD, MS

Postdoctoral Fellow

The National Cancer Institute

Hello,

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) working with Dr. Alex Keil (Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology Branch) and Dr. Paul Albert (Biostatistics Branch) in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). I completed my PhD in Epidemiology (Minor: Computer Sciences) and MS in Statistics both at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was advised by Dr. Ronald Gangnon and Dr. Jun Zhu. My research sits at the intersection of cancer epidemiology, spatial epidemiology, and biostatistics. I develop spatial methods for analyzing complex mixtures of environmental, dietary, and contextual exposures, with the goal of identifying population-level drivers of cancer risk and informing prevention strategies.

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Interests

  • Environmental mixtures and methods
  • Spatial epidemiology methods and applications; cluster detection disease surveillance
  • Spatial statistics and applications to cancer epidemiology and environmental health

Education

  • PhD - Epidemiology, 2022

    Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • MS - Statistics, 2016

    Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • BA - Economics; Political Science; International Studies, 2011

    University of Wisconsin-Madison