A5043190602- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Folate and B Vitamins Research
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Chemical Analysis and Environmental Impact
- Risk Perception and Management
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Noise Effects and Management
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
- Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Social Media in Health Education
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2021-2025
Faculty of Public Health
2022
Tulane University
2013-2020
Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health
2016-2018
National Center for Environmental Assessment (EPA)
2016
Environmental Protection Agency
2016
A growing body of literature suggests that developmental exposure to individual or mixtures environmental chemicals (ECs) is associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, investigating the effect interactions among these ECs can be challenging. We introduced a combination classical exposure-mixture Weighted Quantile Sum (WQS) regression and machine-learning method termed Signed iterative Random Forest (SiRF) discover synergistic between are (1) higher odds ASD diagnosis, (2) mimic...
Environmental health literacy (EHL) involves understanding and using environmental information to make decisions about health. This study developed a validated survey instrument with four scales for assessing media-specific (i.e., air, food, water) general EHL. The were created as follows: 1) item generation: scientists statisticians an initial set of items in three domains: knowledge, attitudes, behaviors; 2) review: reviewed face validity; 3) validation: 174 public students, the...
Environmental epidemiologic research provides invaluable information for understanding the relationship between environmental exposures and health outcomes. Chemical risk assessment, a foundation of public decision-making, benefits from having various disciplines including epidemiology. While epidemiology assessment have common goals reducing human impacts associated with exposure to chemicals, each discipline utilizes different terminologies skill sets. This contributes challenges faced...
Scarce knowledge about the impact of metabolism-disrupting chemicals (MDCs) on liver injury limits opportunities for intervention. We evaluated pregnancy MDC-mixture associations with and effect modification by folic acid (FA) supplementation in mother-child pairs. studied ∼200 pairs from Mexican PROGRESS cohort, measured 43 MDCs during (estimated air pollutants, blood/urine metals or metalloids, urine high- low-molecular-weight phthalate [HMWPs, LMWPs] organophosphate-pesticide [OP]...
The Caribbean Consortium for Research in Environmental and Occupational Health prospective environmental epidemiologic cohort study addresses the impact of chemical non-chemical exposures on mother/child dyads Suriname. determines associations between levels elements toxicants pregnant women, birth outcomes neurodevelopment their children.Pregnant women (N=1143) were enrolled from December 2016 to July 2019 three regions Suriname: Paramaribo (N=738), Nickerie (N=204) tropical rainforest...
Abstract Background Studies report associations between maternal mental health and adverse respiratory outcomes in children; however, the impact of timing duration distress remains understudied. We sought to longitudinally examine depression childhood asthma wheeze, explore sex differences. Methods Maternal ( n = 601) was assessed using Edinburgh Depression Scale questionnaire, dichotomized at a clinically relevant cutoff (>12) (a) during pregnancy, (b) postpartum, (c) postpartum...
Increasingly, marginalized communities are disproportionately facing the worsening effects of environmental hazards, including air pollution, water and climate change. Language isolation accessibility has been understudied as a determinant health. Spanish, despite being second-most common language in United States with some 41.8 million speakers, neglected among health scientists. Building capacity high-quality Spanish-language science communication, both for scientific nonscientific...
Metal(oid)s have been cross-sectionally associated with lung function outcomes in childhood but there is limited data on their combined effects starting utero. Child sex may further modify these effects.
A growing body of literature suggests that higher developmental exposure to individual or mixtures environmental chemicals (ECs) is associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, the effect interactions among these ECs challenging study. We introduced a composition classical exposure-mixture Weighted Quantile Sum (WQS) regression, and machine-learning method called signed iterative random forest (SiRF) discover synergistic between are (1) odds ASD diagnosis, (2) mimic toxicological...
Prenatal exposure to pesticides and the association with adverse health outcomes have been examined in several studies. However, characterization of pesticide among Surinamese women during pregnancy has not assessed. As part Caribbean Consortium Research Environmental Occupational Health research program, 214 urine samples were collected from pregnant living three regions Suriname different agricultural practices: capital Paramaribo, rice producing district Nickerie, tropical rainforest,...
Background: Data integration of epidemiologic studies across different geographic regions can provide enhanced exposure contrast and statistical power to examine adverse respiratory effects early-life particulate matter <2.5 microns in diameter (PM 2.5 ). Methodological tools improve our ability combine data while more fully accounting for study heterogeneity. Methods: Analyses included children enrolled two longitudinal birth cohorts Boston, Massachusetts, Mexico City. Propensity score...
BackgroundEnvironmental pollution has been linked to obesogenic tendencies. Using environmental pollution-related posts from Twitter (now known as X) U.S. counties, we aim uncover the association between linguistic data and county-level obesity rates. MethodsAnalyzing over 4 million tweets using an innovative Differential Language Analysis (DLA) technique predictive modeling drawing 2020 Food Environment Atlas by Department of Agriculture (USDA) identify distinct features in relating topics...