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Kyle Aune
Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health, starting January 2025
Social Science Research Institute Co-funded faculty member
Summary Statement

Kyle Aune is an environmental epidemiologist focused on understanding and mitigating the harmful health effects of climate change.

Department
  • Biobehavioral Health - BBH
  • Environmental Health
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Education
  • Johns Hopkins University, PhD, Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 2022
  • University of Alabama, MPH, Epidemiology, 2012
  • Auburn University, BS, Biomedical Sciences, 2010
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Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Research Interests

Kyle Aune is an environmental epidemiologist who uses high dimensional climate and other environmental datasets along with data science and spatial statistical methods to answer questions about the health effects of climate change. He earned his PhD in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2022 and holds an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Public Health and a BS in biomedical sciences from Auburn University. His research aims to improve climate threat exposure assessments with big climate data; explore climate and environmental determinants of infectious diseases using existing public datasets, vital records, and large climate datasets as well as through primary data collection; and identify and remedy climate and environmental justice issues through community-engaged research.