Olivia Halabicky

Dr. Olivia Halabicky is a children’s environmental health nurse scientist who studies early life exposures and human development. Her research broadly examines how inequitable environmental and social exposures at sensitive periods together shape health trajectories and disparities, as well as physiological mechanisms that may mediate these effects. She utilizes methods from a variety of disciplines including nursing, environmental and social epidemiology, and developmental sciences. She received her PhD in nursing with a concentration on children’s environmental health from the University of Pennsylvania where she was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholars Program as well as an NIH F31 Predoctoral Award. She completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship in Environmental Toxicology and Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.