A5032269680- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Noise Effects and Management
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
- Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Mining and Resource Management
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
- Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Smart Materials for Construction
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models
Oregon State University
2023-2025
Boston University
2021-2025
Medical University of South Carolina
2017-2021
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2015-2016
Background: There is limited research examining aircraft noise and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. The objective of this study was to investigate associations with CVD among two US cohorts, the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) II (NHSII). Methods: Between 1994 2014, we followed 57,306 NHS 60,058 NHSII participants surrounding 90 airports. Aircraft modeled above 44 A-weighted decibels (dB(A)) linked geocoded addresses. Based on exposure distributions, dichotomized exposures at 50 dB(A) tested...
Background: Sleep disruption is linked with chronic disease, and aircraft noise can disrupt sleep. However, there are few investigations of sleep in large cohorts. Objectives: We examined associations between self-reported duration quality the Nurses' Health Study, a prospective cohort. Methods: Aircraft nighttime equivalent sound levels (Lnight) day–night average (DNL) were modeled around 90 U.S. airports from 1995 to 2015 5-y intervals using Aviation Environmental Design Tool geocoded...
Abstract Greenspace in schools might enhance students' academic performance. However, the literature—dominated by ecological studies at school level countries from Northern Hemisphere—presents mixed evidence of a beneficial association. We evaluated association between greenness and student‐level performance Santiago, Chile, capital city Global South. This cross‐sectional study included 281,695 fourth‐grade students attending 1,498 public, charter, private Santiago 2014 2018. Student‐level...
Background: Communities with lower socioeconomic status and higher prevalence of racial/ethnic minority populations are often more exposed to environmental pollutants. Although studies have shown associations between aircraft noise property values various health outcomes, little is known about how exposures sociodemographically patterned. Objective: Our aim was describe characteristics aviation by race/ethnicity, education, income in the United States. Methods: Aircraft contours...
Ecologic health studies often rely on outcomes from service utilization data that are limited by relatively coarse spatial resolutions and missing geographic information, particularly neighborhood level identifiers. When fine-scale missing, the ramifications strategies for addressing them not well researched or developed. This study illustrates a novel spatio-temporal framework combines identifier assignment (i.e., imputation) algorithm with predictive Bayesian variable selection to identify...
Aircraft noise exposure is linked to cardiovascular disease risk. One understudied candidate pathway obesity. This study investigates the association between aircraft and obesity among female participants in two prospective Nurses' Health Study (NHS NHSII) cohorts.
The human papillomavirus (HPV) increases the risk for cancers of cervix, oropharynx, vulva, vagina, penis, and anus. HPV vaccination rates are low in many states having large medically underserved areas. In such areas, school nurses a potential partner improving population health, but their perceptions about HPV, vaccination, role promoting have not been well documented.We administered cross-sectional survey to 61 74 lead at 2019 annual training session South Carolina. Survey questions...
Health studies of air pollution are increasingly aiming to study associations between pollutant mixtures and health.Estimate observed combinations ambient pollutants select cardiorespiratory outcomes in Columbia, SC during 2002 2013.We estimate using a two-stage approach. First, we identified collection combinations, which define as multipollutant day types (MDTs), by applying self-organizing map (SOM) daily measures nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur (SO2), ozone (O3), particulate matter ≤ 2.5...
Many areas of the United States have air pollution levels typically below Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulatory limits. Most health effects studies use meteorological (e.g., warm/cool) or astronomical solstice/equinox) definitions seasons despite evidence suggesting temporally-misaligned intra-annual periods relative asthma burden (i.e., "asthma seasons"). We introduce to elucidate whether pollutants are associated with seasonal differences in emergency department (ED) visits a...
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Long-term health effects of aircraft noise in the United States (US) are being investigated national cohort studies. This presentation will highlight results past and present research future plans. METHOD: We identified patterns exposure (day-night average sound level, DNL, nighttime noise, NL) surrounding 90 US airports over time (1995-2015) by sociodemographic characteristics to inform epidemiological research. evaluated impacts on cardiovascular sleep outcomes...
Treating childhood asthma symptoms through an emergency department (ED) visit is a major burden for both patients and healthcare systems. One opportunity that could improve understanding of risk ultimately lead to improved public health strategies reduce ED visits better socio-environmental determinants disease. The objective this research explore the spatial distribution pediatric across South Carolina in order understand geographic patterns risks disparities, support hypothesis generation...