Publications Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation Policy-makers seeking to limit the impact of coal electricity-generating units (EGUs, also known as power plants) on air quality and climate justify regulations by quantifying the health burden attributable to exposure from these sources. CRE: An R package for interpretable discovery CRE: An R package for interpretable discovery and inference of heterogeneous treatment effects Short-Term Excess Mortality Following Tropical Cyclones in the United States Knowledge of excess deaths after tropical cyclones is critical to understanding their impacts, directly relevant to policies on preparedness and mitigation. Evaluation of PM2.5 Estimates During Wildfire Smoke Episodes Investigating the health impacts of wildfire smoke requires data on people’s exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) across space and time. In recent years, it has become common to use machine... Low-Cost Sensors to Increase Accuracy and Equity of Air Quality Information EPA air quality monitors - the gold standard for measuring air pollutants - are sparsely positioned, meaning low-cost sensors are being increasingly utilized. But how can they be improved? We set out to investigate. Click here to read more! Time-Lagged Relationships between Air Pollution Exposure & ADRD Hospitalization Did you know that air pollution exposure from as many as 10 years prior to admission can increase your likelihood of hospitalization from Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD)? Click here to read more! Effect of Air Pollution & Ambient Temperature on CVD & Respiratory Disease in US In this study, Drs. Yazdi, Wei, Dominici, and Shwartz examined the effect of long-term exposure to air pollution and ambient temperature on the rate of hospital admissions with cardiovascular & respiratory disease.Click here to read more. Hyperlocal super-learned PM2.5 components across the contiguous US Recent NSAPH work found remarkable spatiotemporal variability in the U.S. with respect to PM2.5 components, which have been associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Click here to read more. A Review on the Relevance of COVID Paired with Air Pollution Are you aware of the link between COVID-19 and air pollution? Click here to read the full article and learn more. Integrated Causal-Predictive Models for Tropical Cyclone Epidemiology Strategic preparedness reduces the adverse health impacts of hurricanes and tropical storms. Click here to read more. Air pollution exposure disparities across US population and income groups Disparities in exposure relative to safety standards set by the US Environmental Protection Agency and the World Health Organization have been increasing over time. Click here to read the full publication. A Self Controlled Approach to Survival Analysis Using a self-controlled approach to survival analysis, we attempted to link long-term air pollution exposure to increased mortality while accounting for various confounders. Click here to read more! Longterm exposure to permissible concentration of pollutants increases mortality Check out our group's paper entitled: Long-term effect of exposure to lower concentrations of air pollution on mortality among US Medicare participants and vulnerable subgroups: a doubly-robust approach States decline in NO2 levels after lockdown due to lower mobile source emissions Check out our group's paper entitled: Counterfactual time series analysis of short-term change in air pollution following the COVID-19 state of emergency in the United States Congestive heart failure has the strongest positive association with PM2.5 Check out our group's paper entitled: Estimating the Effects of Fine Particulate Matter on 432 Cardiovascular Diseases Using Multi-Outcome Regression With Tree-Structured Shrinkage NIEHS Paper of the Month May 2021 Check out our group's paper entitled: Hospitalization following extreme weather, opportunities for resilience Acute exposure to PM2.5 is positively associated with hospitalizations. Check out our group's paper entitled: Do temporal trends of associations between short-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and risk of hospitalizations differ by sub-populations and urbanicity in the Medicare Population Heat warnings, mortality, and hospital admissions among older adults in the USA Check out our group's paper entitled: Heat warnings, mortality, and hospital admissions among older adults in the United States Hospitalisation risk from PM2·5 changes over time and has increased in Northeast Check out our group's paper entitled: Temporal variation in association between short-term exposure to fine particulate matter and hospitalisations in older adults in the USA: a long-term time-series analysis of the US Medicare dataset
