A5027453481- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Malaria Research and Control
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Mining and Resource Management
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Indigenous Health and Education
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Pregnancy and Medication Impact
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Selenium in Biological Systems
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
University at Albany, State University of New York
2015-2024
Albany State University
2019-2024
University of Baltimore
2021
Johns Hopkins University
2010-2019
Yale University
2018
New York State Department of Health
2018
Duke University
2013-2014
Durham Technical Community College
2014
Duke Institute for Health Innovation
2014
George Washington University
2012
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a major contributor to deforestation the largest anthropogenic source of atmospheric mercury worldwide. Despite significant information on direct health impacts ASGM miners, impact contamination downstream communities has not been well characterized, particularly in Peru's Madre de Dios region. In this area, increased significantly since 2000 led substantial political social controversy. This research examined spatial distribution transport...
Livestock constitutes a potential reservoir of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates belonging to recently derived lineage within clonal complex 398 (MRSA CC398-IIa). Since its discovery in the early 2000s, this has become major cause human disease Europe, posing serious public health challenge countries with intensive livestock production. To retrace history colonisation and infection MRSA CC398-IIa Denmark, we conducted nationwide, retrospective study collected from 1999...
To determine whether persons living in areas of high animal density are at increased risk for carrying livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA), we used an existing dataset the Netherlands with LA-MRSA carriage and controls who carried other types MRSA. Results running univariate multivariate logistic regression models indicated that livestock-dense increases odds nasal LA-MRSA. We found doubling pig, cattle, veal calf densities per municipality over MRSA by...
Background:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic profoundly affected food systems including security.Understanding how the COVID-19 impacted security is important to provide support and identify long-term impacts needs.Objective: The National Food Access COVID research Team (NFACT) was formed assess over different US study sites throughout pandemic, using common instruments measurements.This presents results from 18 across 15 states nationally first year of pandemic.Methods: A...
Humans who eat fish are exposed to mixtures of healthful nutrients and harmful contaminants that influenced by environmental ecological factors. Marine fisheries composed a multitude species with varying life histories, harvested in oceans, coastal waters estuaries where conditions determine exposure both contaminants. Many these thought influence similar health outcomes (i.e., neurological, cardiovascular, immunological systems). Therefore, our understanding the risks benefits consuming...
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a primary contributor to global mercury its rapid expansion raises concern for human exposure. Non-occupational exposure risks are presumed be strongly tied environmental contamination; however, the relationship between exposure, how has changed over time, risk factors beyond fish consumption not well understood in ASGM settings. In Peruvian riverine communities (n = 12), where increased 4-6 fold past decade, we provide large-scale assessment...
As lockdown and school closure policies were implemented in response to the coronavirus, federal government provided funding relaxed its rules support emergency food provision, but not guidance on best practices for effectiveness. Accordingly, cities developed a diverse patchwork of feeding programs. This article uses qualitative data provide insight into provision five serve children families. Based our analysis, we find that effectiveness local approaches appears depend on: (i)...
Community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) is rapidly increasing. Currently, it unknown which reservoirs are involved. An exploratory hospital-based case-control study was performed in sixteen Dutch hospitals to identify risk factors for CA-MRSA carriage patients not belonging established groups.Cases were in- or outpatients from hospitals, colonised infected with without healthcare- livestock-associated carriage. Control subjects carrying MRSA, and hospitalised on the same ward visited outpatients'...
Neighborhood and individual level risks commonly co-occur for pregnant women may cumulatively contribute to birth outcomes. Moreover, the relationship between favorable social environmental neighborhood conditions perinatal outcomes has been understudied. This study considered accumulated impact of prenatal exposure positive social, environmental, educational in relation maternal health during pregnancy size In a prospective multi-ethnic socioeconomically diverse cohort (n = 239) their...
Are follicular fluid (FF), arsenic (As), mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) concentrations associated with IVF outcomes among women undergoing IVF?There was a non-linear association between higher FF Hg concentration lower likelihood of biochemical pregnancy live birth. Higher Pb also probability birth.Previous research suggests that toxic elements may affect fertility couples conceiving without assistance. However, the results have been inconsistent, possibly related in part to...
The Amazon environment has been exposed in the last decades to radical changes that have accompanied by a remarkable rise of both Plasmodium falciparum and vivax malaria. malaria transmission process is highly influenced factors such as spatial temporal heterogeneities individual-based characteristics mosquitoes humans populations. All these determinant can be simulated effectively trough agent-based models. This paper presents validated model local-scale transmission. reproduces typical...
Though malaria control initiatives have markedly reduced prevalence in recent decades, global eradication is far from actuality. Recent studies show that environmental and social heterogeneities low-transmission settings an increased weight shaping micro-epidemiology. New integrated more localized strategies should be developed tested. Here we present a set of agent-based models designed to study the influence local scale human movements on transmission typical Amazon environment, where low...
Objectives. The social determinants of health (SDH) include factors apart from genes and biology that affect population health. Zoning is an urban planning tool influences neighborhood built environments. We describe the methods results a impact assessment (HIA) rezoning effort in Baltimore, Maryland, called TransForm Baltimore. highlight findings specific to physical activity, violent crime, obesity. Methods. conducted multistage HIA Baltimore using practice guidelines. Key informant...
Both essential and non-essential elements have been associated with female reproductive function in epidemiologic investigations, including among IVF populations. To date, most investigators used blood or urine to assess biomarkers of exposure, few employing ovarian follicular fluid (FF). FF may offer a more direct "snapshot" the oocyte microenvironment than urine, however previous studies report follicle-to-follicle variability constituents that contribute exposure misclassification. Our...
Understanding potential health risks associated with biofuel production is critical to sustainably combating energy insecurity and climate change. However, the specific impacts biorefinery-related emissions are not yet well characterized. We evaluated relationship between respiratory emergency department (ED) visits (2011–2015) residential exposure biorefineries by comparing 15 biorefinery sites control areas across New York (NY) State. further examined these associations types (e.g., corn,...
To summarize what is known about cancer among the transgender population in New York State.We identified patients diagnosed between 1979 and 2016 State Cancer Registry using reported sex, text search of case abstract, linkage to statewide hospitalization records.We 230 patients, including 125 natal males, 48 females, 57 with unknown sex. Median age at diagnosis was 47.4 years, compared 66.0 years for all patients. Transgender were more than 2.5 times likely use cigarettes other Kaposi...
This paper describes the participatory modeling experiences of five discrete teams across U.S. working to develop models food systems identify leverage points and policies induce system transformation. Collaboration between academic community partners within these individual processes enables address complexity, integrate scientific evidence local knowledge into models, while improving a model's credibility accessibility for policymaking. While tools facilitating are becoming more available,...
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number (CN) and damage in circulating white blood cells have been proposed as effect biomarkers for pollutant exposures. Studies shown that mercury accumulates mitochondria affects mitochondrial function integrity; however, these data are derived largely from experiments model systems, rather than human population studies evaluate the potential utility of exposure biomarkers. We measured mtDNA CN (WBCs) 83 residents nine communities Madre de Dios region...