Tabitha F. Julien is a PhD candidate in Epidemiology at the NYU School of Medicine - Sackler Institute. As a spatial and social epidemiologist, her aim is to be at the forefront of neighborhood-based research, with an interdisciplinary approach to applied epidemiology to inform policy. Prior to being accepted to the Civic Analytics fellowship, she was awarded a NIH Diversity Supplement that investigates the effects of second-hand smoke on lower-respiratory infections among NYC public housing residents and examine the extent to which racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities exists between lower respiratory infections and second-hand smoke exposures in the context of multiunit housing.