A5036410753- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Disaster Response and Management
- Risk Perception and Management
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Housing Market and Economics
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Noise Effects and Management
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Arizona State University
2022-2025
University of Utah
2019-2023
Flooding greatly endangers public health and is an urgent concern as rapid population growth in flood-prone regions more extreme weather events will increase the number of people at risk. However, exhaustive analysis mortality following floods has not been conducted. Here we used 35.6 million complete death records over 18 years (2001–2018) from National Center for Health Statistics United States, highly resolved flood exposure data a Bayesian conditional quasi-Poisson model to estimate...
Objectives Although research shows that public health is substantially affected during and after disasters, few studies have examined the effects of Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall on Texas coast in August 2017. We assessed disparities physical health, mental care access Harvey among residents Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, Texas, metropolitan statistical area (ie, Houston MSA). Methods used structured survey data collected through telephone online surveys from a population-based...
Most disaster studies rely on convenience sampling and 'after-only' designs to assess impacts. This paper, focusing Hurricane Harvey (2017) leveraging a pre-/post-event sample of Greater Houston households (n=71) in the United States, establishes baselines for preparedness home structure flood hazard mitigation, explores household-level ramifications, examines how mitigation relate health effects, event exposures, recovery. Between 70 80 per cent participants instituted measures. Mitigation...
In the United States, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) delineates 100-year flood zones to define risks, regulate insurance premiums, and inform management. Evidence indicates that FEMA maps are incomplete, calling much of our current knowledge U.S. hazard inequities into question. We use a state-of-the-art model census tract-level dasymetrically mapped sociodemographic data examine risk in Greater Houston area, where increasingly frequent damaging events occurring. innovate by...
Climate change is exacerbating flood risks globally. In the U.S., Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) delineate areas at high risk (i.e., 100-year floodplains), however, FIRMs are incomplete and outdated. We utilize estimates from advanced modeling sociodemographic data census tract level to examine inequities in federally-overlooked flooding across conterminous United States (CONUS). Using multivariable statistics that account for clustering...
We apply an environmental justice lens to synthesize knowledge of disparities experienced by Hurricane Harvey survivors based on race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) across the disaster phases. focus Texas Gulf Coast, which hosts largest petrochemical industrial complex in United States Harvey-induced flooding 2017, precipitating a natural-technological (na-tech) disaster. review studies that have examined race/ethnicity- and/or SES-based each Harvey's phases (i.e., mitigation,...
Ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) causes health problems and is monitored by U.S. federal state governments. Due to gaps in public monitoring, people rely on non-regulatory air quality monitoring networks (NAQMNs), comprised of low-cost PM2.5 sensors, obtain information. While environmental justice studies have examined social disparities sensor distribution, none university-purchased vs. privately-purchased distributions. This important because who purchases sensors (and why) may...