Erika L. Sabbath ScD

Erika Sabbath is an assistant professor at Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. She is a social epidemiologist focusing on the short-term and long-term associations between occupational exposures and health disparities. Her work examines the impact of chemical, biomechanical, and psychosocial exposures on outcomes ranging from occupational injury to later-life cognitive function. She is currently the principal investigator of a career development grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The study tests the ways that psychosocial stressors among health care workers predict economic outcomes for health care organizations, using data from the Harvard Center for Work, Health, and Wellbeing.

Prior to joining the Boston College faculty, she earned a joint doctorate in social epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Paris. She completed her postdoctoral training at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.