Faculty Awards and News
Dr. David Carpenter received the Hudson Hero Award from Riverkeeper, along with the DEC Commissioner. His accomplishments as a public health physician were shared at their annual event on June 8.
Dr. Beth Feingold was selected as a Fulbright Scholar in the inaugural cohort of Fulbright Amazonia, a new initiative focused on research and collaboration on Amazon Basin issues. In July, she will present “Study Protocol: Application of novel biomarkers to measure health impacts of anthropogenic change in the Peruvian Amazon” at the American Society of Nutrition.
Ursula Lauper’s EPA proposal titled “Winning the Race Against Competing Risks: Optimizing Drinking Water Disinfection to Minimize Opportunistic Pathogen & DBP Risks” has been recommended for funding. The grant led by Michigan State University with partners from The Ohio State University, Drexel University, NYSDOH, and others.
Dr. Shao Lin was invited as a national expert to speak at “Adapting Health Systems to Protect Children from the Impact of Climate Change” sponsored by UNICEF in February, at a United Nations Water Conference Expert Panel in March, and as a panelist for the UAlbany Center for Environmental Health/Maternal Child Health in March. She was also invited to participate in the study section to review grants for “NIH Center for Oceans & Human Health: Impacts of Climate Change on Oceans and Great Lakes” in May. This June, “The Long-Term Effect of Ultrafine Particles on Mortality” (Quan Qi, Fangqun Yu, Gan Luo, Arshad A. Nair, Han Liu, and Shao Lin) was presented orally at the 12th Annual conference of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon). Dr. Lin’s team also submitted three abstracts to the APHA Annual Meeting this November:
- Nair A. A., Shao L., Luo G., Ryan I., Qi Q., Deng X., and Yu F., Exposure disparities of aerosol pollutants (ultrafine particles and PM2.5) by socioeconomic status in New York State
- Qi Q., Yu F., Luo G., Nair A. A., and Lin S., The long-term effect of ultrafine particles on mortality and its sociodemographic disparities
- Gao D., Friedman S., Hosler A., Sheridan S., Zhang W., Yu F., Qi Q., and Lin S. Modification effects of ultrafine particles on the association between ambient extreme cold exposure and diabetes-related hospital admissions in winter and transitional months
Lastly, Dr. Lin trained also two high school students on the literature review process.
Dr. Mary O’Reilly attended the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and taught a professional development course on risk and decision-making. She also chaired the Stewardship and Sustainability Committee meeting and promoted the Circular Economy series of infographics.
Dr. Kai Zhang accepted an invitation to serve as the Associate Editor of Science of The Total Environment (Impact Factor: 10.75), which is one of the top environmental journals. In addition, his paper “Air Pollution, Built Environment, and Early Cardiovascular Disease” was accepted by Circulation Research (Impact Factor: 23.22), one of the top journals in cardiology.
Student/Post-Doc Awards and News
Congratulations to our EHS graduates: Amanda Andreas, Najm Alsadat Madani, Fatim Sannoh, Gabrielle Roosevelt, and Taina Suarez.
Ahlam Abuawad (MPH, mentored by Dr. Beth Feingold) defended her dissertation in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health last July. Ahlam’s dissertation was entitled, “Arsenic, Nutrition, and Metabolic Outcomes.” She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She is continuing her work with arsenic, metabolomics and diabetes-related outcomes under the mentorship of Dr. Margaret Karagas. Last month, one of her final projects from Columbia was published in EHP.
The School of Public Health Research Committee recognized Xinlei Deng (PhD, mentored by Dr. Shao Lin) from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences as this year’s recipient for his dissertation titled Developing High-Resolution Meteorological Datasets to Assess the Short-Term Association Between Meteorological Factors and Green Space and Mental Disorders.