Nat MacNell, PhD

Dr. Nat MacNell has 13 years of experience in environmental epidemiology with a background in engineering. He currently supports several environmental health studies focused on estimating the health impacts of heat exposure arising from climate change based on historical temperature data. His other work focuses on applying machine learning approaches to exposome-scale environmental data to identify health relevant-exposure mixtures, gene-environment interactions, and windows of susceptibility. Dr. MacNell was previously an adjunct professor at Campbell University, and taught courses in Biostatistics, Environmental Health, Public Health Surveillance, and R programming. He received his MSPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after studying biomedical engineering, genetics, and anthropology at North Carolina State University.