Yvette Cozier

Dr. Yvette Cozier is an investigator on the Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS) and the BWHS Sarcoidosis Study at the Slone Epidemiology Center. Her 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 (especially sarcoidosis and lupus). Additional research interests include oral health, and the role that religiosity/spirituality and the faith community, particularly the black church, plays in health promotion/disease prevention in the Black community.

Dr. Cozier is a professor of epidemiology and associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Boston University School of Public Health. She is also a member of the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research at Boston University.