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Land use regression modeling of intra-urban residential variability in multiple traffic-related air pollutantsJane E Clougherty
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Landmark Center 4th Floor West, PO Box 15677, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Environ Health 7:17. 2008....- Between-airport heterogeneity in air toxics emissions associated with individual cancer risk thresholds and population risksYing Zhou
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Environ Health 8:22. 2009..Comprehensive atmospheric dispersion models are beyond the scope of many applications, so it would be valuable to rapidly but accurately characterize the risk-relevant exposure implications of emissions at an airport... - Factors influencing the spatial extent of mobile source air pollution impacts: a meta-analysisYing Zhou
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
BMC Public Health 7:89. 2007..This review attempts to quantitatively synthesize findings about the spatial extent under various circumstances... - Evaluating efficiency-equality tradeoffs for mobile source control strategies in an urban areaJonathan I Levy
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Risk Anal 29:34-47. 2009..Our analysis demonstrates the viability of formal analytical approaches to jointly address both efficiency and equality in risk assessment, providing a tool for decisionmakers who wish to consider both issues... - Estimation of primary and secondary particulate matter intake fractions for power plants in GeorgiaJonathan I Levy
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center Room 404K, P O Box 15677, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Environ Sci Technol 37:5528-36. 2003..These findings provide a framework for improved understanding of the factors that influence population exposures to particulate matter... - Modeling the benefits of power plant emission controls in MassachusettsJonathan I Levy
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Air Waste Manag Assoc 52:5-18. 2002..While further analysis would be required to reduce uncertainties and expand on our analytical model, our framework can help decision-makers evaluate the magnitude and distribution of benefits under different control scenarios... - Lung function, asthma symptoms, and quality of life for children in public housing in Boston: a case-series analysisJonathan I Levy
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center Room 404K, P O Box 15677, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Environ Health 3:13. 2004..To better understand risk factors for asthma morbidity in the context of an environmental intervention study, we conducted a detailed baseline evaluation of 78 children (aged 4-17 years) from three public housing developments in Boston... - Ozone exposure and mortality: an empiric bayes metaregression analysisJonathan I Levy
Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Epidemiology 16:458-68. 2005..We conducted an empiric Bayes metaregression to estimate the ozone effect on mortality, and to assess whether this effect varies as a function of hypothesized confounders or effect modifiers... - Uncertainty and variability in health-related damages from coal-fired power plants in the United StatesJonathan I Levy
Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Risk Anal 29:1000-14. 2009..Our findings emphasize that control strategies that consider variability in damages across facilities would yield more efficient outcomes... - Is epidemiology the key to cumulative risk assessment?Jonathan I Levy
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Environment Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Risk Anal 28:1507-13. 2008.... - The air quality impacts of road closures associated with the 2004 Democratic National Convention in BostonJonathan I Levy
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center 4th Floor West, P, O, Box 15677, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Environ Health 5:16. 2006..It was anticipated that the road closures associated with the DNC would both influence the overall air pollution level and the distribution of concentrations across the city, through shifts in traffic patterns... - A community-based participatory research study of multifaceted in-home environmental interventions for pediatric asthmatics in public housingJonathan I Levy
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Soc Sci Med 63:2191-203. 2006..Our findings reinforce the multifactorial nature of urban asthma and suggest a need for further study of the relative contributions of and possible synergies between environmental and social factors in asthma intervention programs... - Estimating the mortality impacts of particulate matter: what can be learned from between-study variability?J I Levy
Departments of Environmental Health and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Environ Health Perspect 108:109-17. 2000..Although further analysis would be needed to determine which factors causally influence the relationship between PM(10) and mortality, these findings can help guide future epidemiologic investigations and policy decisions... - Quantifying the efficiency and equity implications of power plant air pollution control strategies in the United StatesJonathan I Levy
Department of Environmental Health, Exposure Epidemiology and Risk Program, and Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:743-50. 2007..In deciding among competing approaches for emissions control, debates often hinge on the potential tradeoffs between efficiency and equity. However, previous health benefits analyses have not formally addressed both dimensions... - Particulate matter and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations in indoor and outdoor microenvironments in Boston, MassachusettsJonathan I Levy
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 12:104-14. 2002..Although further study would be needed to determine whether these patterns could be generalized beyond the monitored sites, these data support previous findings and enhance our knowledge about nonresidential exposure patterns... - A regression-based approach for estimating primary and secondary particulate matter intake fractionsJonathan L Levy
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health and Center for Risk Analysis, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Risk Anal 22:895-904. 2002.... - Fine particulate matter and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentration patterns in Roxbury, Massachusetts: a community-based GIS analysisJ I Levy
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Environ Health Perspect 109:341-7. 2001.... - Influence of traffic patterns on particulate matter and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations in Roxbury, MassachusettsJonathan I Levy
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 13:364-71. 2003.... - The importance of population susceptibility for air pollution risk assessment: a case study of power plants near Washington, DCJonathan I Levy
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 110:1253-60. 2002.... - Particle concentrations in urban microenvironmentsJ I Levy
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Environ Health Perspect 108:1051-7. 2000..These findings imply that personal exposures can depend on activity patterns and that microenvironmental concentration information can improve the accuracy of personal exposure estimation... - The public health benefits of insulation retrofits in existing housing in the United StatesJonathan I Levy
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Environ Health 2:4. 2003.... - Issues and uncertainties in estimating the health benefits of air pollution controlJonathan I Levy
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 66:1865-71. 2003.... - Assessing the public health benefits of reduced ozone concentrationsJ I Levy
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Environ Health Perspect 109:1215-26. 2001..We discuss the implications of our findings for future analyses and determine areas of research that might help reduce the uncertainties in benefit estimation... - Factors influencing mobile source particulate matter emissions-to-exposure relationships in the Boston urban areaSusan L Greco
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, and Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Sci Technol 41:7675-82. 2007..5 iF that accounting for population movement with time, localized meteorological conditions, and street-canyon configurations would likely increase... - A longitudinal analysis of the efficacy of environmental interventions on asthma-related quality of life and symptoms among children in urban public housingJ E Clougherty
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachussetts, USA
J Asthma 43:335-43. 2006..Our results demonstrate the value of longitudinal techniques in evaluating the benefits of environmental interventions for asthma... - Ventilation in public housing: implications for indoor nitrogen dioxide concentrationsA Zota
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Indoor Air 15:393-401. 2005.... - Source apportionment of indoor residential fine particulate matter using land use regression and constrained factor analysisJ E Clougherty
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Boston, MA, USA
Indoor Air 21:53-66. 2011.... - Pesticide loadings of select organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides in urban public housingRhona Julien
Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 18:167-74. 2008..Detection of several pesticides including banned or restricted use products in some public housing units, underscore the need for alternative pest management strategies that embrace the safe and judicious use of pest control products... - Nitrogen dioxide concentrations in neighborhoods adjacent to a commercial airport: a land use regression modeling studyGary Adamkiewicz
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA, USA
Environ Health 9:73. 2010..F. Green Airport in Warwick, RI, and land-use regression (LUR) modeling techniques to determine the impact of proximity to the airport and local traffic on these concentrations... - Measured and modeled personal exposures to and risks from volatile organic compoundsRobin E Dodson
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Sci Technol 41:8498-505. 2007.... - Ancillary benefits for caregivers of children with asthma participating in an environmental intervention study to alleviate asthma symptomsJane E Clougherty
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Urban Health 86:214-29. 2009..Future environmental intervention studies should more formally consider social support and participation effects for both children and caregivers... - Synergistic effects of traffic-related air pollution and exposure to violence on urban asthma etiologyJane E Clougherty
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:1140-6. 2007..Asthma, for example, disproportionately affects lower-income urban communities, where air pollution and social stressors may be elevated... - The influence of traffic on air quality in an urban neighborhood: a community-university partnershipJonathan J Buonocore
Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center, 401 Park Dr West, PO Box 15677, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Public Health 99:S629-35. 2009..We evaluated the spatial and temporal patterns of traffic-related air pollutants in an urban neighborhood to determine factors contributing to elevated concentrations and to inform environmental justice concerns... - Efficacy of integrated pest management in reducing cockroach allergen concentrations in urban public housingJunenette L Peters
Department of Environmental Health, Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Asthma 44:455-60. 2007..Intensive interventions can significantly reduce the allergen burden in public housing apartments, but intervention efforts must be sustained... - Health, wealth, and air pollution: advancing theory and methodsMarie S O'Neill
Environmental Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Environ Health Perspect 111:1861-70. 2003.... - Integrating risk assessment and life cycle assessment: a case study of insulationYurika Nishioka
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Risk Anal 22:1003-17. 2002..We discuss the methodology to be used to integrate life cycle calculations, which can ultimately yield estimates that can be compared with costs to determine the influence of external costs on benefit-cost calculations... - Fuels for urban transit buses: a cost-effectiveness analysisJoshua T Cohen
Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Environ Sci Technol 37:1477-84. 2003..7 million to dollar 2.4 million for CNG). These estimates are subject to much uncertainty. We identify assumptions that contribute most to this uncertainty and propose potential research directions to refine our estimates... - Does living near a Superfund site contribute to higher polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposure?Anna L Choi
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:1092-8. 2006.... - The influence of geographic location on population exposure to emissions from power plants throughout ChinaYing Zhou
Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center, 401 Park Drive, Room 404, Boston, MA 02216, USA
Environ Int 32:365-73. 2006..The results should be useful for informing future decisions about power-plant locations and controls... - Predictors of concentrations of nitrogen dioxide, fine particulate matter, and particle constituents inside of lower socioeconomic status urban homesLisa K Baxter
Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 17:433-44. 2007..We conclude that the effect of indoor sources may be more pronounced in high-density multiunit dwellings, and that future epidemiological studies in these populations should explicitly consider these sources in assigning exposures... - Challenges of conducting community-based participatory research in Boston's neighborhoods to reduce disparities in asthmaElmer R Freeman
Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc, Boston, MA, USA
J Urban Health 83:1013-21. 2006.... - Measured concentrations of VOCs in several non-residential microenvironments in the United StatesMiranda M Loh
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 and University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Environ Sci Technol 40:6903-11. 2006..1 microg/m3 (95% CI = 0.7, 1.8). The VOC concentrations found in stores and restaurants in this study are a potentially important source of exposure for sensitive individuals or people who work in these microenvironments... - Determinants of allergen concentrations in apartments of asthmatic children living in public housingJunenette L Peters
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center East Room 3 111 23, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Urban Health 84:185-97. 2007.... - Exposure efficiency: an idea whose time has come?John S Evans
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Room 211, 718 Huntington Avenue, 02115 Boston, MA, USA
Chemosphere 49:1075-91. 2002.... - Pesticides in urban multiunit dwellings: hazard identification using classification and regression tree (CART) analysisRhona Julien
Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
J Air Waste Manag Assoc 58:1297-302. 2008..We conclude that using CART as an exploratory technique to better understand the home characteristics associated with elevated pesticide levels may be a viable approach for risk management in large multiunit housing developments... - Dust mites: using data from an intervention study to suggest future research needs and directionsDoug Brugge
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
Rev Environ Health 22:245-54. 2007.... - Simulating indoor concentrations of NO(2) and PM(2.5) in multifamily housing for use in health-based intervention modelingP Fabian
Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Indoor Air 22:12-23. 2012.... - Ranking cancer risks of organic hazardous air pollutants in the United StatesMiranda M Loh
KTL, National Public Health Institute, Department of Environmental Health, Kuopio, Finland
Environ Health Perspect 115:1160-8. 2007..In this study we compared cancer risks from organic hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) based on total personal exposure summed across different microenvironments and exposure pathways... - The health benefits of reduced tropospheric ozone in CaliforniaBart D Ostro
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
J Air Waste Manag Assoc 56:1007-21. 2006.... - Methodological challenges and contributions in disaster epidemiologyFrancesca Dominici
Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkinds University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Epidemiol Rev 27:9-12. 2005
Research Grants
- Predictors of Spatial Patterns in Urban Air PollutionJonathan Levy; Fiscal Year: 2006....