Erica Walker, Sc.D.

RGSS Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Founder of Community Noise Lab

Biography

Research Interests: Founder of the Community Noise Lab, which explores the relationship between community noise and health, Walker has expertise in environmental exposure assessments, environmental exposure modeling, community surveying, and community engagement.

Recent News

The New York Times

A phantom humming has a Connecticut city at wit’s end

Erica Walker, an assistant professor of epidemiology and founder of the Community Noise Lab at the School of Public Health, offered commentary on the health impacts of low-frequency noises.
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MPH student Rosemelly Jimenez Medal's father has worked as a short-haul trucker for over 25 years, and she noticed that he was struggling to hear conversations at dinner. So Jimenez Medal teamed up with her father and noise researcher Erica Walker, RGSS Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, to conduct hearing screenings on short-term truckers in California.
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