2024
Simulating desegregation through affordable housing development: an environmental health impact assessment of Connecticut zoning law
Prasanth S, Zhang X, Oloyede N, Chen K, Carrión D. Simulating desegregation through affordable housing development: an environmental health impact assessment of Connecticut zoning law. ISEE Conference Abstracts 2024, 2024 DOI: 10.1289/isee.2024.0049.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHeatwaves and hardship: Shortcomings and solutions for enhancing the low income home energy assistance program to mitigate extreme heat and energy insecurity
Carrión D, Hernández D. Heatwaves and hardship: Shortcomings and solutions for enhancing the low income home energy assistance program to mitigate extreme heat and energy insecurity. The Electricity Journal 2024, 37: 107440. PMID: 39464545, PMCID: PMC11503018, DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2024.107440.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLow Income Home Energy Assistance ProgramEnergy Assistance ProgramEnergy insecurityLow Income Home Energy Assistance Program fundingAssistance programsLow-income householdsIncreasing economic strainInsecure householdsEconomic strainDisadvantaged groupsLiving conditionsSpatial mismatchInsecuritySouthern statesProgram eligibilityHouseholdsWell-beingClimate changeLifeline programSwift actionCooling degree daysResidential segregation and summertime air temperature across 13 northeastern U.S. states: potential implications for energy burden
Carrión D, Rush J, Colicino E, Just A. Residential segregation and summertime air temperature across 13 northeastern U.S. states: potential implications for energy burden. Environmental Research Letters 2024, 19: 084005. PMID: 39329068, PMCID: PMC11423957, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad5b77.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNon-Hispanic White peopleResidential segregationLatino peopleWhite peopleEthnoracial groupsMeasures of residential segregationPlace-based interventionsRegression modelsCooling degree daysU.S. Census dataAdaptive capacityInfluence adaptive capacityIncreasing health concernNortheastern U.S. statesSegregation measuresWithin-countyCensus dataHealth concernEnergy burdenAsian populationsRelief programsCounty averageU.S. statesAsian peopleMinoritized groupsSimulating desegregation through affordable housing development: An environmental health impact assessment of Connecticut zoning law
Prasanth S, Oloyede N, Zhang X, Chen K, Carrión D. Simulating desegregation through affordable housing development: An environmental health impact assessment of Connecticut zoning law. Health & Place 2024, 88: 103277. PMID: 38781859, PMCID: PMC11190844, DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103277.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNon-Hispanic white residentsEnvironmental health equityAmbient environmental exposuresHealth impact assessmentExposure-response functionsEnvironmental health impact assessmentHealth equityHealth inequalitiesNon-HispanicRate of deathExcess deathsWhite residentsEstimated deathsMortality impactLow-income residentsDesegregation policiesEnvironmental exposuresResidential segregationHousing targetsResidentsHousing developmentDeathSimulated movementHealthImpact assessment
2023
Geospatial Assessment of Racial/Ethnic Composition, Social Vulnerability, and Lead Water Service Lines in New York City
Nigra A, Lieberman-Cribbin W, Bostick B, Chillrud S, Carrión D. Geospatial Assessment of Racial/Ethnic Composition, Social Vulnerability, and Lead Water Service Lines in New York City. Environmental Health Perspectives 2023, 131: 087015. PMID: 37646509, PMCID: PMC10467360, DOI: 10.1289/ehp12276.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2022
Residential and Race/Ethnicity Disparities in Heat Vulnerability in the United States
Manware M, Dubrow R, Carrión D, Ma Y, Chen K. Residential and Race/Ethnicity Disparities in Heat Vulnerability in the United States. GeoHealth 2022, 6: e2022gh000695. PMID: 36518814, PMCID: PMC9744626, DOI: 10.1029/2022gh000695.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchUsing time-resolved monitor wearing data to study the effect of clean cooking interventions on personal air pollution exposures
Gould C, Mujtaba M, Yang Q, Boamah-Kaali E, Quinn A, Manu G, Lee A, Ae-Ngibise K, Carrión D, Kaali S, Kinney P, Jack D, Chillrud S, Asante K. Using time-resolved monitor wearing data to study the effect of clean cooking interventions on personal air pollution exposures. Journal Of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology 2022, 33: 386-395. PMID: 36274187, DOI: 10.1038/s41370-022-00483-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAir pollution exposurePersonal air pollution exposureControl armPM2.5 exposurePersonal PM2.5 exposurePollution exposureStudy armsLPG armPersonal exposureCooking interventionsAverage PM2.5 exposureExposure estimatesClean cooking interventionsCO exposureMean personal exposuresPregnant womenPersonal CO exposuresPersonal PM2.5Environmental exposuresAccelerometry dataPersonal monitorsInterventionExposureExposure parametersDirect associationMental Health and Well-Being for Patients and Clinicians
Senay E, Levine R, Shepherd J, Rizzo A, Yitshak-Sade M, Carrión D, Liu B, Lewis J, Wright R, Sorensen C, Wortzel J, Pinsky E, Hudson K, Katz C, Gore K, Basu G, Duritz N, Wright R, Sheffield P. Mental Health and Well-Being for Patients and Clinicians. Journal Of Occupational And Environmental Medicine 2022, 64: e661-e666. PMID: 36179344, DOI: 10.1097/jom.0000000000002655.Commentaries, Editorials and LettersPrediction of daily mean and one-hour maximum PM2.5 concentrations and applications in Central Mexico using satellite-based machine-learning models
Gutiérrez-Avila I, Arfer K, Carrión D, Rush J, Kloog I, Naeger A, Grutter M, Páramo-Figueroa V, Riojas-Rodríguez H, Just A. Prediction of daily mean and one-hour maximum PM2.5 concentrations and applications in Central Mexico using satellite-based machine-learning models. Journal Of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology 2022, 32: 917-925. PMID: 36088418, PMCID: PMC9731899, DOI: 10.1038/s41370-022-00471-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchThe influence of structural racism, pandemic stress, and SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy with adverse birth outcomes
Janevic T, Lieb W, Ibroci E, Lynch J, Lieber M, Molenaar NM, Rommel AS, de Witte L, Ohrn S, Carreño JM, Krammer F, Zapata LB, Snead MC, Brody RI, Jessel RH, Sestito S, Adler A, Afzal O, Gigase F, Missall R, Carrión D, Stone J, Bergink V, Dolan SM, Howell EA, Group K. The influence of structural racism, pandemic stress, and SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy with adverse birth outcomes. American Journal Of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM 2022, 4: 100649. PMID: 35462058, PMCID: PMC9022447, DOI: 10.1016/j.ajogmf.2022.100649.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSARS-CoV-2 infectionGestational age infantsGestational age newbornsPreterm birthAdverse birth outcomesBirth outcomesZone improvement plan codeRelative riskPandemic-related stressPublic insuranceElectronic medical record databasePregnant personsSerologic enzyme-linked immunosorbentBody mass indexLog-binomial regressionMedical record databaseCOVID-19 mortality ratesEnzyme-linked immunosorbentNeighborhood measuresProspective cohortHighest quartileAdjusted analysisMass indexInsurance statusMaternal ageThe Case–Crossover Design Under Changing Baseline Outcome Risk: A Simulation of Ambient Temperature and Preterm Birth
Carrión D, Rush J, Colicino E, Just AC. The Case–Crossover Design Under Changing Baseline Outcome Risk: A Simulation of Ambient Temperature and Preterm Birth. Epidemiology 2022, 33: e14-e15. PMID: 35447631, PMCID: PMC9156557, DOI: 10.1097/ede.0000000000001477.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHeading Upstream: Strategies to Shift Environmental Justice Research From Disparities to Equity
Carrión D, Belcourt A, Fuller CH. Heading Upstream: Strategies to Shift Environmental Justice Research From Disparities to Equity. American Journal Of Public Health 2022, 112: 59-62. PMID: 34936408, PMCID: PMC8713605, DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2021.306605.Commentaries, Editorials and Letters
2021
Evaluating the Impact of the Clean Heat Program on Air Pollution Levels in New York City
Zhang L, He MZ, Gibson EA, Perera F, Lovasi GS, Clougherty JE, Carrión D, Burke K, Fry D, Kioumourtzoglou MA. Evaluating the Impact of the Clean Heat Program on Air Pollution Levels in New York City. Environmental Health Perspectives 2021, 129: 127701. PMID: 34878319, PMCID: PMC8653771, DOI: 10.1289/ehp9976.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchA cluster randomised trial of cookstove interventions to improve infant health in Ghana
Jack DW, Ae-Ngibise KA, Gould CF, Boamah-Kaali E, Lee AG, Mujtaba MN, Chillrud S, Kaali S, Quinn AK, Gyaase S, Oppong FB, Carrión D, Agyei O, Burkhart K, Ana-aro JA, Liu X, Berko YA, Wylie BJ, Etego SA, Whyatt R, Owusu-Agyei S, Kinney P, Asante KP. A cluster randomised trial of cookstove interventions to improve infant health in Ghana. BMJ Global Health 2021, 6: e005599. PMID: 34452940, PMCID: PMC8404442, DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005599.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMonths of lifeBirth weightPregnant womenPollution exposureLPG armAir pollution exposurePneumonia riskHousehold air pollutionIntervention armSevere pneumoniaChildhood morbidityChild pneumoniaInfant healthLeading causeChild healthPrimary analysisPersonal carbon monoxideCookstove interventionControl participantsClean cooking interventionsTrialsExposure reductionHealth-based targetsPneumoniaCooking interventionsInfant Nasopharyngeal Microbiota Subphenotypes and Early Childhood Lung Function: Evidence from a Rural Ghanaian Pregnancy Cohort
Dubowski K, Kaali S, Jack D, Prah RKD, Clemente JC, Tawiah T, Mujtaba M, Iddrisu L, Carrión D, Konadu DG, Agyei O, Kornu FM, Osei-Owusu S, Lee AG, Asante KP. Infant Nasopharyngeal Microbiota Subphenotypes and Early Childhood Lung Function: Evidence from a Rural Ghanaian Pregnancy Cohort. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health 2021, 18: 7276. PMID: 34299726, PMCID: PMC8305530, DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18147276.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLung functionNasopharyngeal microbiotaPregnancy cohortLung healthPolymerase chain reactionRespiratory microbiotaLatent class analysisMassTag polymerase chain reactionGhana Randomized Air PollutionFuture lung healthChildhood lung functionSmall airway resistanceMultivariable linear regression modelsProspective pregnancy cohortAge four yearsAsymptomatic childrenMiddle-income countriesPulmonary diseaseAirway resistanceImpulse oscillometryNasopharyngeal swabsSubphenotypesCohortMore pathogensChain reactionNeighborhood-level disparities and subway utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City
Carrión D, Colicino E, Pedretti NF, Arfer KB, Rush J, DeFelice N, Just AC. Neighborhood-level disparities and subway utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. Nature Communications 2021, 12: 3692. PMID: 34140520, PMCID: PMC8211826, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24088-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSARS-CoV-2 testing dataNeighborhood social disadvantageCOVID-19-related mortalityQuantile sum (WQS) regressionSocial disadvantageCOVID-19 pandemicWeighted Quantile Sum (WQS) regressionNew York CityInfection riskConsequent disparitiesNeighborhood-level disparitiesPositive associationInfectionMortalityYork CityNeighborhood disadvantagePrenatal household air pollutant exposure is associated with reduced size and gestational age at birth among a cohort of Ghanaian infants
Quinn AK, Adjei IA, Ae-Ngibise KA, Agyei O, Boamah-Kaali EA, Burkart K, Carrión D, Chillrud SN, Gould CF, Gyaase S, Jack DW, Kaali S, Kinney PL, Lee AG, Mujtaba MN, Oppong FB, Owusu-Agyei S, Yawson A, Wylie BJ, Asante KP. Prenatal household air pollutant exposure is associated with reduced size and gestational age at birth among a cohort of Ghanaian infants. Environment International 2021, 155: 106659. PMID: 34134048, PMCID: PMC8628363, DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106659.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLow birth weightHousehold air pollutionGestational ageBirth weightPlacental malariaMaternal exposureBirth lengthSubstantial public health benefitsGhana Randomized Air PollutionReduced birth weightImportant risk factorMalaria-endemic areasAge z-scoreEvidence of malariaPublic health benefitsAir pollutant exposureEffects of COMalarial statusPlacental histopathologyBirth outcomesPregnant womenFetal growthPrenatal exposureRisk factorsGhanaian infantsA 1-km hourly air-temperature model for 13 northeastern U.S. states using remotely sensed and ground-based measurements
Carrión D, Arfer KB, Rush J, Dorman M, Rowland ST, Kioumourtzoglou MA, Kloog I, Just AC. A 1-km hourly air-temperature model for 13 northeastern U.S. states using remotely sensed and ground-based measurements. Environmental Research 2021, 200: 111477. PMID: 34129866, PMCID: PMC8403657, DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111477.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAir temperature modelStatistical modelCoarse spatial resolutionSquare gridXGboost Machine Learning AlgorithmInterpolation of temperatureExample applicationHeat wavesTemperature modelAir temperatureSquare errorGrid cellsPrecise estimatesSatellite-based vegetationHourly modelSimilar accuracyWeighted rootGround-based measurementsWavesLand surface temperatureModel predictionsCross-validation schemeAmbient air temperatureMachine Learning AlgorithmsErrorEnhancing LPG Adoption in Ghana (ELAG): A Trial Testing Policy-Relevant Interventions to Increase Sustained Use of Clean Fuels
Carrión D, Prah R, Tawiah T, Agyei O, Twumasi M, Mujtaba M, Jack D, Asante KP. Enhancing LPG Adoption in Ghana (ELAG): A Trial Testing Policy-Relevant Interventions to Increase Sustained Use of Clean Fuels. Sustainability 2021, 13: 2213. PMID: 34765257, PMCID: PMC8580155, DOI: 10.3390/su13042213.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2020
Time Use Implication of Clean Cookstoves in Rural Settings in Ghana: A Time Use Study
Prah RKD, Carrion D, Oppong FB, Tawiah T, Mujtaba MN, Gyaase S, Kwarteng A, Ae-Ngibise KA, Agyei O, Twumasi M, Agbokey F, Asante KP, Jack DW. Time Use Implication of Clean Cookstoves in Rural Settings in Ghana: A Time Use Study. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health 2020, 18: 166. PMID: 33383624, PMCID: PMC7795878, DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18010166.Peer-Reviewed Original Research