Shakira Franco Suglia

Summary

Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Association of black carbon with cognition among children in a prospective birth cohort study
    S Franco Suglia
    Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 167:280-6. 2008
  2. ncbi Violence exposure, a chronic psychosocial stressor, and childhood lung function
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Landmark 415W, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Psychosom Med 70:160-9. 2008
  3. ncbi Association between lung function and cognition among children in a prospective birth cohort study
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark 415W, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Psychosom Med 70:356-62. 2008
  4. ncbi Association between traffic-related black carbon exposure and lung function among urban women
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    Environ Health Perspect 116:1333-7. 2008
  5. ncbi Creation of a community violence exposure scale: accounting for what, who, where, and how often
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Department of Environmental Health, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    J Trauma Stress 21:479-86. 2008
  6. ncbi Maternal intimate partner violence and increased asthma incidence in children: buffering effects of supportive caregiving
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 163:244-50. 2009
  7. ncbi Posttraumatic stress symptoms related to community violence and children's diurnal cortisol response in an urban community-dwelling sample
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark 415W, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Int J Behav Med 17:43-50. 2010
  8. ncbi Social and environmental stressors in the home and childhood asthma
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, 88 East Newton Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
    J Epidemiol Community Health 64:636-42. 2010

Research Grants

  1. Health Effects of Violence Exposure Among Children Living in Urban Environments
    Shakira Franco; Fiscal Year: 2005

Detail Information

Publications8

  1. ncbi Association of black carbon with cognition among children in a prospective birth cohort study
    S Franco Suglia
    Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 167:280-6. 2008
    ..9, 95% CI: -7.5, -0.3) of the Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning. Higher levels of black carbon predicted decreased cognitive function across assessments of verbal and nonverbal intelligence and memory constructs...
  2. ncbi Violence exposure, a chronic psychosocial stressor, and childhood lung function
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Landmark 415W, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Psychosom Med 70:160-9. 2008
    ..Chronic psychosocial stressors, including violence, and neuropsychological and behavioral development in children as well as physiologic alterations that may lead to broader health effects...
  3. ncbi Association between lung function and cognition among children in a prospective birth cohort study
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark 415W, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Psychosom Med 70:356-62. 2008
    ..A number of studies have demonstrated a relationship between lung function and cognition among adults, but this relationship has not been studied among children...
  4. ncbi Association between traffic-related black carbon exposure and lung function among urban women
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    Environ Health Perspect 116:1333-7. 2008
    ..Although a number of studies have documented the relationship between lung function and traffic-related pollution among children, few have focused on adult lung function or examined community-based populations...
  5. ncbi Creation of a community violence exposure scale: accounting for what, who, where, and how often
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Department of Environmental Health, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    J Trauma Stress 21:479-86. 2008
    ..Incorporating detailed event circumstance information that is grounded in traumatic stress theory may reduce measurement error in the assessment of children's community violence exposure...
  6. ncbi Maternal intimate partner violence and increased asthma incidence in children: buffering effects of supportive caregiving
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 163:244-50. 2009
    ..To examine the relationship between maternal intimate partner violence (IPV) and asthma onset in children and the role of supportive caregiving factors in modifying this relationship...
  7. ncbi Posttraumatic stress symptoms related to community violence and children's diurnal cortisol response in an urban community-dwelling sample
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark 415W, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Int J Behav Med 17:43-50. 2010
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  8. ncbi Social and environmental stressors in the home and childhood asthma
    Shakira Franco Suglia
    Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, 88 East Newton Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
    J Epidemiol Community Health 64:636-42. 2010
    ..The authors examined the relationship between maternal intimate partner violence (IPV), housing quality and asthma among children in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N=2013)...

Research Grants1

  1. Health Effects of Violence Exposure Among Children Living in Urban Environments
    Shakira Franco; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..The proposed research involves secondary data analysis conducted withing the Maternal-Infant Smoking Study of East Boston (MISSEB) Cohort (RJ Wright, PI) and will incorporate both social and environmental frameworks. ..