Dr. Nicole (Nikki) DeVille is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. Her current research focuses on using spatiotemporal approaches to investigate the impacts of multiple environmental and contextual exposures (e.g., air pollution, green space, and neighborhood socioeconomic status) on health disparities in outcomes such as cardiovascular disease and cognition. Her broad research interests include environmental epidemiology, social epidemiology, mental health & wellness, maternal & child health, health disparities in Pacific Islander and Indigenous populations, and public health pedagogy.

Dr. DeVille earned a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University, M.P.H. in Epidemiology from University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and Ph.D. in Public Health from University of California, Irvine. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in environmental epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School.