Environmental and Occupational Health Publications and Reports — Summer 2017


September 17, 2017

Summer semesters are short at GW, but our faculty put out some very influential publications in those few hot months!  The faculty’s attention-getting recent publications included papers on the environmental injustice of beauty, policies that would help reduce the use of medically important antibiotics in food animals, how extreme heat may impact pregnancy, and ozone’s global health toll.  (See “Environmental and Occupational Health In the News — Summer 2017” for media coverage of many of these papers.)

Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Research Melissa Perry is the senior author of a publication in Cytometry Part A, which is published by the International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry (the measurement of cell characteristics). Perry’s coauthors on “Semi-automated scoring of triple-probe FISH in human sperm using confocal microscopy” include Associate Biostatistics and Epidemiology Professor Heather Young, Adjunct Associate Professor of Anatomy and Regenerative Biology Anastas Propritiloff (of GW’s School of Medicine & Health Sciences), and five students.  More

Professor Lance Price, who directs the school’s Antibiotic Resistance Action Center, is

Associate Professor Susan Anenberg (who moved into her full-time position at the end of the summer) is

Associate Professor Matias Attene Ramos is the lead author of a publication in the Journal of Environmental Sciences. Postdoctoral Scientist Justin Pals, who works in Attene Ramos’ laboratory, is the first author of the paper, “Monohalogenated acetamide-induced cellular stress and genotoxicity are related to electrophilic softness and thiol/thiolate reactivity.” (more)

Associate Professor Sabrina McCormick

Assistant Research Professor Cindy Liu is the first author of a publication for which Professor Lance Price is a senior author in mBio, “Penile anaerobic dysbiosis as a risk factor for HIV infection” (more)

Assistant Professor Amanda Northcross is a coauthor of two recent papers on a community-based environmental monitoring network in southeastern California (read more about both)

Assistant Professor Ami Zota is

Professorial Lecturer Kristie L. Ebi is the first author of an article that provides important data documenting the effectiveness of adaptation in managing the health risks of climate variability and change in low- and middle-income countries, “Lessons Learned on Health Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change: Experiences Across Low- and Middle-Income Countries,” published in Environmental Health Perspectives (more)