Dr. Nadeau’s research looks at how environmental exposures affect immunity and disease, such as in asthma, severe allergies, and immune disorders. She studies molecular and systems biology responses to air pollution in vulnerable populations, including children and wildfire fighters, and in underserved communities. Her laboratory performs implementation science to monitor health and biomarker outcomes after mitigation and adaptation to climate change events.
Earlier this year she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee. She is a member of the U.S. Federal Wildfire Commission and the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NIH, and has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the U.S. EPA. She has consulted with various governmental agencies and research organizations on the role of climate in allergy, asthma, and immunology. In the past year she has been an advisor and collaborator on air pollution and health for the World Health Organization, worked on the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, and led sessions on climate change and health at COP26 in Glasgow and recently at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. She is co-founder of four companies, which are bringing the results of her studies to families and clinical practice.
I am excited that Dr. Nadeau’s vision is fully aligned with the mission and strategic needs of the department and the School to understand the mechanism of environmental health hazards across the full range of disciplines, particularly in disadvantaged communities, and to translate that knowledge into prevention actions in public policy, clinical practice, products, and informed decisions by patients and families.
Dr. Nadeau earned her MD/PhD from Harvard Medical School in 1995, completing her doctoral work in biochemistry and immunology, followed by a pediatric internship and residency at Boston Children’s Hospital (1995-1997). She moved to California for a fellowship in the Stanford-UCSF Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Program (2003-2006), joining the Stanford School of Medicine faculty as an instructor, followed by promotions to assistant professor (2008), associate professor (2011), and professor (2015).