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Epidemiology and Community Health Branch
                    
                                                                                            Veronique Roger, M.D., MPH, FACC, FAHA
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            veronique.roger@nih.gov
                        The mission of the Epidemiology and Community Health Branch (ECHB) is to deploy innovative multimodality ascertainment and analytical approaches with a unifying focus on the phenotypic expressions of heart, lung, blood and sleep (HLBS) diseases, their occurrence and outcomes in populations.

The ECHB leverages interdisciplinary collaborations and apply methods grounded in epidemiology, population “omics’, and health services delivery research. In doing so, the ECHB works on elucidating the mechanisms of HLBS diseases while evaluating the intersection of HLBS diseases with aging, multimorbidity, equity and social determinants of health in diverse populations.
            

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Heart Disease Phenomics
    *The Laboratory of Heart Disease Phenomics* focuses on defining clinical and biological heart disease phenotypes, their determinants, and associated outcomes in populations with the goal of advancing treatment and prevention.
        
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                            M.D., MPH, FACC, FAHA
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        Genomic Instability and Cardiopulmonary Outcomes
    The Laboratory of Genomic Instability and Cardiopulmonary Outcomes conducts multidisciplinary epidemiologic studies aimed at explaining the biological mechanisms by which exposures influence cardiopulmonary disease risk and progression in humans, with focus on genomic instability, investigates whether the impact of exposures on cardiopulmonary outcomes differ across racial/ethnic groups and by geographic location, and assesses how atmospheric conditions characteristic of climate change affect cardiopulmonary outcomes in humans.
        
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