Maayan Yitshak-Sade

Maayan Yitshak-Sade is an associate professor, Environmental Medicine and Climate Sciences, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a member of the Mount Sinai Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics. An epidemiologist with a primary research interest in environmental health, Yitshak-Sade centers her research program on the interrelationship between multiple environmental and built environment exposures, including climate and air pollution and cardiometabolic health. She investigates the complex health effects of exposure mixtures in large-scale cohorts using novel satellite-based exposure models and the varying impacts of air pollutant mixtures on morbidity, mortality, and life expectancy across demographic and socioeconomic population groups in the United States and abroad. (Mount Sinai is a 2024 Festival Underwriter)