A5013063281- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Radioactive contamination and transfer
- Coal Properties and Utilization
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Industrial Engineering and Technologies
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Genital Health and Disease
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
Yale University
2021-2024
Providence Center
2022
Center for Environmental Health
2020
Abstract Contamination from anthropogenic activities is a long-standing challenge to the sustainability of groundwater resources. Physically based (PB) models are often used in risk assessments, but their application large scale problems requiring high spatial resolution remains computationally intractable. Machine learning (ML) have emerged as an alternative PB era big data, necessary number observations may be impractical obtain when events rare, such episodic contamination incidents. The...
Background: Unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD) releases chemicals that have been linked to cancer childhood leukemia. Studies of UOGD exposure leukemia are extremely limited. Objective: The objective this study was evaluate potential associations between residential proximity risk acute lymphoblastic (ALL), the most common form leukemia, in a large regional sample using UOGD-specific metrics, including novel metric represent water pathway. Methods: We conducted registry-based...
Health studies report associations between metrics of residential proximity to unconventional oil and gas (UOG) development adverse health endpoints. We investigated whether exposure through household groundwater is captured by existing a newly developed metric incorporating flow paths. compared with detection frequencies/concentrations 64 organic inorganic UOG-related chemicals/groups in from 255 homes (Pennsylvania n = 94 Ohio 161). Twenty-seven chemicals were detected ≥20% water samples...
Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) development, made possible by horizontal drilling high-volume hydraulic fracturing, has been fraught with controversy since the industry's rapid expansion in early 2000's. Concerns about environmental contamination public health risks persist many rural communities that depend on groundwater resources for drinking other daily needs. Spatial disparities UOG can pose distributive injustice if such are disproportionately borne marginalized communities. In this...
Domestic wells serve as the primary drinking-water source for rural residents in northern Appalachian Basin (NAB), despite a limited understanding of contaminant distributions groundwater sources. We employ newly collected dataset 216 water samples from domestic Ohio and West Virginia an integrated contaminant-source attribution method to describe quality western NAB characterize key agents influencing distributions. Our results reveal arsenic nitrate concentrations above federal maximum...
This national cohort study examines National Immunization Survey–Teen to assess the association of adolescents' ability consent human papillomavirus vaccination without parental involvement with rates.
The production of fossil fuels, including oil, gas, and coal, retains a dominant share in US energy serves as major anthropogenic source methane, greenhouse gas with high warming potential. In addition to directly emitting methane into the air, fuel can release groundwater, that may eventually reach atmosphere. this study, we collected 311 water samples from an unconventional oil (UOG) region Pennsylvania (O&G) coal across Ohio West Virginia. Methane concentration was negatively correlated...
Private groundwater wells in communities co-located with historically contaminated sites and ongoing industrial activity contain complex mixtures of low-dose organic chemicals.
Background Fossil fuel extraction from deep shale rock formations using new drilling technologies such as hydraulic fracturing has rapidly increased in the Unites States over past decade. Increases nonlocal, specialized workers to meet demands of this complex industry have been suggested influence rates sexually transmitted infections (STIs) counties with activity; these associations may vary geographically. In multiregion analysis, we examine between activity and 3 reportable STIs Colorado,...
Abstract Background: Production of shale gas in the United States (US) increased more than 10-fold from 2008 to 2021, yielding greater quantities hydrocarbon feedstocks and incentivizing expansion petrochemical facilities. Steam crackers (SCs) convert into ethylene propylene (the building blocks plastics), while releasing toxic chemicals greenhouse gases (GHGs). Analyses environmental health justice impacts SCs are limited. Methods: We described SC operations, locations, emissions, evaluated...
Background: In 2019, the CDC expanded their recommendations for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination beyond age 26 years to include shared clinical decision-making (SCDM) among adults aged 27–45 (“mid-adults”). The purpose of this study was describe HPV status mid-adult women before implementation SCDM vaccination. Methods: A cross-sectional survey conducted during 2016–2019 in Connecticut, United States, and enrolled born 1981 or later (birth cohorts eligible vaccination). This analysis...
Abstract Detecting sharp differences, or boundaries, in areal data can uncover important biological, physical and/or social differences between spatial regions. We introduce a new discrete kernel function for use the stick-breaking process framework that is shown to yield improved (i) detection of (ii) estimation regression parameters and (iii) model fit through simulation study comparison with existing approaches. analyse county-level hydraulic fracturing Class II injection well counts...
Background/Aim. Epidemiologic studies have reported associations between residential proximity to unconventional oil and gas (UOG) development adverse health outcomes. Proximity-based metrics are useful for retrospectively assessing aggregate exposures in large-scale studies, but do not provide information about specific exposures. We compared drinking water measurements of UOG-related chemicals commonly-used a newly-developed, groundwater-specific metric advance understanding exposure...
Background/Aim. Unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD), commonly known as "fracking," is a rapidly expanding industry that releases chemicals have been linked to cancer childhood leukemia. Despite high community concern, studies of are sparse. We evaluated potential associations between residential proximity UOGD risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form leukemia, in large regional sample using UOGD-specific metrics, including novel metric representing water...
Background/Aim: Steam crackers (SCs) convert gas feedstocks into ethylene and propylene (the building blocks of plastics) at high temperatures release toxic/carcinogenic chemicals greenhouse gases (GHGs). The recent shale boom in the United States (US) has incentivized expansion SCs, but analyses their potential environmental health justice impacts are limited. We described SC operations, constructed a US emissions inventory, evaluated socioeconomic characteristics populations residing...