A5006190551- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Global Health Care Issues
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Risk Perception and Management
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Water resources management and optimization
- Fecal contamination and water quality
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Arsenic contamination and mitigation
- Chemical Analysis and Environmental Impact
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Fluoride Effects and Removal
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Birth, Development, and Health
University of Utah
2016-2025
RTI International
2024
Northern Arizona University
2024
Johns Hopkins University
2024
Pennsylvania State University
2024
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
2023
National Technical Information Service
2023
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2023
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2017
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology
2017
Human alteration of the nitrogen cycle has resulted in steadily accumulating nitrate our water resources. The U.S. maximum contaminant level and World Health Organization guidelines for drinking were promulgated to protect infants from developing methemoglobinemia, an acute condition. Some scientists have recently suggested that regulatory limit is overly conservative; however, they not thoroughly considered chronic health outcomes. In August 2004, a symposium on drinking-water was held at...
Intermountain Healthcare is a fully integrated delivery system based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As learning healthcare with mission of performance excellence, it became apparent that population health management and our efforts to move towards shared accountability would require additional patient-centric metrics order provide the right care patients at time. Several European countries have adopted social deprivation indices measuring impact determinants can on health. Such geographic,...
The relationship between air pollution and pneumonia is poorly understood.To examine relationships short-term exposure number severity of cases along the Wasatch Front in Utah, a region with periodic high levels outdoor pollution.We applied time-stratified case-crossover analyses distributed lag to patients presenting seven emergency departments over 2-year period. We compared particulate matter less than or equal 2.5 μm aerodynamic diameter, nitrogen dioxide, ozone at patient residences...
This study assesses the effect of drinking water quality on diarrheal disease in good and poor sanitary conditions using a random sample 2,355 Filipino infants over first year life. The provides powerful confirmation importance environmental factors diarrhea: effects quality, household sanitation, community sanitation are strong, consistent, statistically significant. positive impact improved is greatest for families living under conditions, with significant when measured at level but not...
Primary-school children in low- and middle-income countries are often deprived of microbiologically safe water sanitation, resulting a high prevalence gastrointestinal diseases poor school performance. We used Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) to predict the probability infection schoolchildren due consumption unsafe water. A multistage random-sampling technique was randomly select 425 primary schools from ten districts Sindh, Pakistan, produce representative sample province....
To examine whether a previously reported association between airborne lead exposure and children's cognitive function replicates across geographically diverse sample of the United States.
Storing drinking water in the home is common developing world. Several studies have documented increased concentrations of fecal coliforms during household storage. This has led to belief that in‐house contamination an important transmission route for enteric pathogens and, moreover, improving source quality not warranted until can be maintained home. We contend does pose a serious risk diarrhea because family members would likely develop some level immunity commonly encountered environment....
Abstract The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes the disease (COVID-19), is shed in feces and virus RNA detectable wastewater. A nine-week wastewater epidemiology study of ten facilities, serving 39% state Utah or 1.26M individuals was conducted April May 2020. COVID-19 cases were tabulated from within each sewershed boundary by public health partners. 61% 126 unique samples. Urban sewersheds >100,000 tourist communities had higher detection...
Abstract Community-associated acquisition of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase- (ESBL) and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae has significantly increased in recent years, necessitating greater inquiry into potential exposure routes, including food water sources. In high-income countries, drinking is often neglected as a possible source community to antibiotic-resistant organisms. We screened coliform-positive tap samples (n = 483) from public private systems six states the United...
Horizontal gene transfer has contributed to the global spread of blaNDM-1 gene. Multiple studies have demonstrated plasmid between Gram-negative bacteria, primarily Enterobacteriaceae species, but conjugational natural plasmids from into Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii not previously been shown. As P. A. are both typically strong biofilm formers, could potentially occur more readily in this environment. To determine whether or biofilms, three clinical environmental strains...
Wastewater treatment is an essential tool for maintaining water quality in urban environments. While the of wastewater can remove most bacterial cells, some will inevitably survive to be released into natural Previous studies have investigated antibiotic resistance within plants, but few explored how a river's complete set genes (the "resistome") affected by release treated effluent surface waters.
Air pollution is a carcinogen and causes pulmonary cardiac complications. We examined the association of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) mortality from cancer all among pediatric, adolescent, young adult (AYA) patients with in Utah, state considerable variation PM2.5.We followed 2,444 pediatric (diagnosed ages 0-14) 13,459 AYA 15-39) diagnosed 1986-2015 diagnosis to 5 10 years postdiagnosis, death, or emigration. measured average monthly PM2.5 by ZIP code during follow-up. Separate...
Abstract Neighborhood characteristics are increasingly connected with health outcomes. Social processes affect through the maintenance of social norms, stimulation new interests, and dispersal knowledge. We created zip code level indicators happiness, food, physical activity culture from geolocated Twitter data to examine relationship between these neighborhood obesity diabetes diagnoses (Type 1 Type 2). collected 422,094 tweets sent Utah April 2015 March 2016. leveraged administrative...
The purpose of this study was to characterize the concentrations lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), manganese (Mn), and Fe (Fe) in drinking water sources primary schools Sindh Province, Pakistan quantify potential health risks among those school children. We conducted a representative, cross-sectional 425 province Pakistan. used risk assessment models estimate metal index, pollution lifetime cancer risk, hazard quotient index. Across sampled schools, levels heavy metals often exceeded WHO permissible...
In Pakistan, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is expected to greatly increase the already high mortality and morbidity rates attributed infections, making AMR surveillance prevention a priority in country. The aims of project were characterize prevalence carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) healthcare facility sink drains Pakistan how physical characteristics sinks rooms associated with CRE those sinks. study took place 40 facilities Jamshoro Pakistan. Swabs collected from each that...