Dr. Yvette Cozier is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology, and the Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion at Boston University School of Public Health. She is also an investigator on the Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS) and the BWHS Sarcoidosis Study at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.

Dr. Cozier's research interests include social and genetic determinants of health in African-American women -- specifically, the influence of psychosocial stressors such as racism and neighborhood socioeconomic status, and genetics in the development of cancer, cardiometabolic, and immune-mediated diseases (i.e. sarcoidosis, lupus). Her additional research interests include oral health, and the role that the faith community, particularly the Black church, plays in health promotion and disease prevention efforts in the Black community.

Dr Cozier received her BA from Harvard University Extension School and her MPH and DSc in epidemiology from Boston University's School of Public Health.

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