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title: Yvette Cozier
date: 2026-06-22T00:00:00-04:00
author: Laura Prieto
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[Who We Are](/who-we-are)# Yvette Cozier

Content Expert Chair  
 Content Expert, Chair, [Chronic Conditions](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/subject-area/chronic-conditions)

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Dr. Yvette Cozier is a professor of epidemiology, and the associate dean of diversity, equity, inclusion, justice and wellness (DEIJ-W) at Boston University School of Public Health. As a senior epidemiologist at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University School of Medicine, she is a principal investigator (MPI) of the Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS). The BWHS analyzes social and genetic determinants of health in African-American women.

A social epidemiologist, Dr. Cozier researches the influence of psychosocial and structural factors (such as interpersonal racism and neighborhood socioeconomic status) on health, including on the development of chronic cardiometabolic conditions (obesity, type-2 diabetes), immune-mediated conditions (lupus, sarcoidosis, inflammatory bowel disease), and neurologic conditions (insomnia, Parkinson’s disease). She has also explored the role of religion and spirituality on health, particularly within the Black church.

Dr. Cozier is the immediate past-president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research.

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