Environmental Health Sciences
As the global population continues to grow and encounters increasingly limited resources, strained ecosystems and climate change, environmental health is emerging as a dominant concern in the 21st century.
At the Yale School of Public Health, our faculty and students use state-of-the-art approaches to monitor environmental exposures, evaluate health risks, discover toxicological mechanisms and design more and better environmentally friendly products. Our faculty are using the latest research methods, including metabolomics, personal sensors for monitoring environmental exposures, and analyses of chemical mixtures and the exposome, to better understand the vital connection between the environment and human health. Our research areas can be broadly organized into six emerging areas in environmental health research. For details on each of the areas, faculty specialties and labs, explore Departmental Highlights.Recent Publications
2024
- SHEA position statement on pandemic preparedness for policymakers: introduction and overview.Hsu VP, Haessler S, Banach DB, Batshon LJ, Branch-Elliman W, Dumyati G, Jump RLP, Malani AN, Mathew TA, Murthy RK, Pergam SA, Shenoy ES, Weber DJ. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 Jun 5; 2024 Jun 5. PMID: 38835222.
- Comprehensive evaluation framework for intervention on health effects of ambient temperature.Wang J, Wang P, Liu B, Kinney PL, Huang L, Chen K. Eco Environ Health. 2024 Jun; 2024 Jan 28. PMID: 38646097.
- Firearm-Related Lead Exposure and Child Lead Levels in the United States, 2012-2018.Hoover C, Fossa AJ, Ranney ML, Hoover GG, Specht AJ, Hemenway D, Braun JM. J Pediatr. 2024 Jun; 2024 Feb 23. PMID: 38401786.
- Bivariate extreme value analysis of extreme temperature and mortality in Canada, 2000-2020.Zhang Y, Wang K, Ren J, Liu Y, Ma F, Li T, Chen Y, Ling C. BMC Public Health. 2024 May 18; 2024 May 18. PMID: 38762446.
- The European Union Ban on Microplastics Includes Artificial Turf Crumb Rubber Infill: Other Nations Should Follow Suit.Zuccaro P, Thompson DC, de Boer J, Llompart M, Watterson A, Bilott R, Birnbaum LS, Vasiliou V. Environ Sci Technol. 2024 Feb 13; 2024 Feb 1. PMID: 38301275.
- Contribution of climate change to the spatial expansion of West Nile virus in Europe.Erazo D, Grant L, Ghisbain G, Marini G, Colón-González FJ, Wint W, Rizzoli A, Van Bortel W, Vogels CBF, Grubaugh ND, Mengel M, Frieler K, Thiery W, Dellicour S. Nat Commun. 2024 Feb 8; 2024 Feb 8. PMID: 38331945.
- Effects of a community-based, multi-level family planning intervention on theoretically grounded intermediate outcomes for couples in rural Uganda: Results from a mixed methods pilot evaluation.Sileo KM, Muhumuza C, Wanyenze RK, Kershaw TS, Ellerbe B, Muñoz S, Sekamatte S, Lule H, Kiene SM. Br J Health Psychol. 2024 Jan 19; 2024 Jan 19. PMID: 38242837.
- US drinking water quality: exposure risk profiles for seven legacy and emerging contaminants.Levin R, Villanueva CM, Beene D, Cradock AL, Donat-Vargas C, Lewis J, Martinez-Morata I, Minovi D, Nigra AE, Olson ED, Schaider LA, Ward MH, Deziel NC. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2024 Jan; 2023 Sep 22. PMID: 37739995.
2023
- A Bayesian framework for incorporating exposure uncertainty into health analyses with application to air pollution and stillbirth.Comess S, Chang HH, Warren JL. Biostatistics. 2023 Dec 15. PMID: 35984351.
- Waterborne Diseases That Are Sensitive to Climate Variability and Climate Change.Semenza JC, Ko AI. N Engl J Med. 2023 Dec 7. PMID: 38055254.
- How Healthcare Systems Negatively Impact Environmental Health? The Need for Institutional Commitment to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Medical Services.Piscitelli P, Karaj S, Miani A, Kyriakides TC, Greco E, Colicino E, Bray A, Simón F, Vasiliou V, Baccarelli AA. Epidemiologia (Basel). 2023 Nov 22; 2023 Nov 22. PMID: 38131675.
- Everglades virus: an underrecognized disease-causing subtype of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus endemic to Florida, USA.Burkett-Cadena ND, Fish D, Weaver S, Vittor AY. J Med Entomol. 2023 Nov 14. PMID: 37862065.
- Floods and Diarrhea Risk in Young Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Wang P, Asare EO, Pitzer VE, Dubrow R, Chen K. JAMA Pediatr. 2023 Nov 1. PMID: 37782513.
- Environmental Biofilms from an Urban Community in Salvador, Brazil, Shelter Previously Uncharacterized Saprophytic Leptospira.Dos Santos Ribeiro P, Carvalho NB, Aburjaile F, Sousa T, Veríssimo G, Gomes T, Neves F, Blanco L, Lima JA, de Oliveira D, Jaiswal AK, Brenig B, Soares S, Ramos R, Matiuzzi M, Góes-Neto A, Figueira CP, Costa F, Ristow P, Azevedo V. Microb Ecol. 2023 Nov; 2023 Jun 16. PMID: 37326636.
- Transfusion-transmitted Babesia spp.: a changing landscape of epidemiology, regulation, and risk mitigation.Drews SJ, Kjemtrup AM, Krause PJ, Lambert G, Leiby DA, Lewin A, O'Brien SF, Renaud C, Tonnetti L, Bloch EM. J Clin Microbiol. 2023 Oct 24; 2023 Sep 26. PMID: 37750699.
- Future temperature-related excess mortality under climate change and population aging scenarios in Canada.Hebbern C, Gosselin P, Chen K, Chen H, Cakmak S, MacDonald M, Chagnon J, Dion P, Martel L, Lavigne E. Can J Public Health. 2023 Oct; 2023 Jun 12. PMID: 37308698.
- A declaration on the value of experiential measures of food and water insecurity to improve science and policies in Latin America and the Caribbean.Melgar-Quiñonez H, Gaitán-Rossi P, Pérez-Escamilla R, Shamah-Levy T, Teruel-Belismelis G, Young SL. Int J Equity Health. 2023 Sep 5; 2023 Sep 5. PMID: 37670356.
- Population structure and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Salmonella Typhi and Paratyphi A amid a phased municipal vaccination campaign in Navi Mumbai, India.da Silva KE, Date K, Hirani N, LeBoa C, Jayaprasad N, Borhade P, Warren J, Shimpi R, Hoffman SA, Mikoleit M, Bhatnagar P, Cao Y, Haldar P, Harvey P, Zhang C, Daruwalla S, Dharmapalan D, Gavhane J, Joshi S, Rai R, Rathod V, Shetty K, Warrier DS, Yadav S, Chakraborty D, Bahl S, Katkar A, Kunwar A, Yewale V, Dutta S, Luby SP, Andrews JR. mBio. 2023 Aug 31; 2023 Jul 28. PMID: 37504577.
- Nationwide projections of heat- and cold-related mortality impacts under various climate change and population development scenarios in Switzerland.de Schrijver E, Sivaraj S, Raible CC, Franco OH, Chen K, Vicedo-Cabrera AM. Environ Res Lett. 2023 Aug 11. PMID: 38854588.
- Wearable Passive Samplers for Assessing Environmental Exposure to Organic Chemicals: Current Approaches and Future Directions.Okeme JO, Koelmel JP, Johnson E, Lin EZ, Gao D, Pollitt KJG. Curr Environ Health Rep. 2023 Jun; 2023 Feb 23. PMID: 36821032.
- High Ambient Temperature in Pregnancy and Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.Rogne T, Wang R, Wang P, Deziel NC, Metayer C, Wiemels JL, Chen K, Warren JL, Ma X. medRxiv. 2023 May 19; 2023 May 19. PMID: 37293058.
- Density of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in a low-income Brazilian urban community where dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses co-circulate.Souza RL, Nazare RJ, Argibay HD, Pellizzaro M, Anjos RO, Portilho MM, Jacob-Nascimento LC, Reis MG, Kitron UD, Ribeiro GS. Parasit Vectors. 2023 May 6; 2023 May 6. PMID: 37149611.
- Sustainable and Resilient Health Care in the Face of a Changing Climate.Sherman JD, MacNeill AJ, Biddinger PD, Ergun O, Salas RN, Eckelman MJ. Annu Rev Public Health. 2023 Apr 3; 2023 Jan 10. PMID: 36626833.
- Temperature variability and birthweight: Epidemiological evidence from Africa.Wang P, O'Donnell KJ, Warren JL, Dubrow R, Chen K. Environ Int. 2023 Mar; 2023 Feb 2. PMID: 36841185.
- Associations between short-term temperature exposure and kidney-related conditions in New York State: The influence of temperature metrics across four dimensions.Chu L, Chen K, Crowley S, Dubrow R. Environ Int. 2023 Mar; 2023 Jan 30. PMID: 36841184.
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