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.
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
- senior author of “Emergence of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections in Denmark,” published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases (more)
- Coauthor of “Combating Antibiotic Resistance: A Policy Roadmap to Reduce Use of Medically Important Antibiotics in Livestock.” The report is the result of an eight-month collaboration by commission experts to craft a roadmap; Price served as a co-chair for the group, which also included infectious disease physicians, veterinarians, epidemiologists, and pediatricians (more)
- Senior author of a publication with Assistant Research Professor Cindy Liu in mBio, “Penile anaerobic dysbiosis as a risk factor for HIV infection” (more)
Associate Professor Susan Anenberg (who moved into her full-time position at the end of the summer) is
- first author of “Impacts and mitigation of excess diesel-related NOx emissions in 11 major vehicle markets” published in Nature (more)
- a coauthor of “Updated Global Estimates of Respiratory Mortality in Adults ≥30 Years of Age Attributable to Long-Term Ozone Exposure,” published in Environmental Health Perspectives (more)
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
- is senior author of a paper with GEH MPH/Physician’s Assistant Alumna Leeann Kuehn, “Heat Exposure and Maternal Health in the Face of Climate Change.” Published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, the paper includes work that Kuehn did for her culminating experience and served as the publication’s August cover image and story. See “Environnmental and Occupational Health In the News— Summer 2017” for media coverage of the study. More about the study
- is senior author with EOH Alumnus Mark Shimamoto of a paper in Weather, Climate, and Society, which is published by the American Meteorological Society, “The Role of Health in Urban Climate Adaptation: An Analysis of Six U.S. Cities” (more)
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)
- “The Imperial County Community Air Monitoring Network: A Model for Community-based Environmental Monitoring for Public Health Action” is published in Environmental Health Perspectives
- “Development and field validation of a community-engaged particulate matter air quality monitoring network in Imperial, CA” is published in the Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association
Assistant Professor Ami Zota is
- lead author of a new commentary published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, “Reducing chemical exposures at home: opportunities for action” which draws on findings from a study published in September 2016 (more)
- first author of a commentary published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, “The Environmental Injustice of Beauty: Framing Chemical Exposures from Beauty Products as a Health Disparities Concern” (more)
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)