The people behind ASCENT.
Cavin Ward-Caviness
Dr. Cavin Ward-Caviness, the Price Lab's Director of Environmental Science at the Buck Institute’s Price Lab, leads the integration of electronic health records, environmental exposures, and omics data to engineer personalized approaches to managing environmental risks and study how the exposome influences aging, chronic disease, and health disparities.
Vivek Ananth
Dr. Vivek Ananth is a postdoctoral researcher at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging whose work integrates exposome science, multi-omics, and systems biology to understand how environmental factors influence healthspan.
Zakiya Whatley
Dr. Zakiya Whatley is a scientific communication strategist with over a decade of experience translating across disciplinary lines — work that's directly relevant to ASCENT's challenge of uniting EHR researchers and climate scientists around shared goals.