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Allan C. Just, PhD: Air pollution and temperature as spatial factors impacting child health

Air pollution and temperature as spatial factors impacting child health

Key Takeaways: For this talk, Dr. Just explores how air pollution and temperature act as spatial factors impacting child health, with a focus on advanced exposure modeling using satellite data and machine learning. It highlights unique opportunities within the ECHO program to build spatiotemporal exposure models, integrate diverse data sources, and improve the accuracy of environmental health studies. Dr. Just also discusses technical challenges, model comparisons, and the importance of analyzing short-term exposures and humidity’s role in heat-related health outcomes.

Allan C. Just, PhD

Nazareth-Ferguson Family University Associate Professor

of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology and

Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Speaker Biography: Allan C. Just, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society at Brown University. Dr. Just specializes in environmental exposure modeling and epidemiology, leveraging satellite data and earth observations to enhance exposure assessment for large health registries and cohort studies. Dr. Just is recognized for advancing methodologies in air pollution and temperature modeling to support child health research.

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Paneth/Hirko: Identifying Opportunities for Implementation Science Approaches in the ECHO Program

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Identifying Opportunities for Implementation Science Approaches in the ECHO Program

Speaker:

Nigel Paneth, MD, MPH

Michigan State University

 

 

 

 

 

Kelly Hirko, PhD, MPH

Michigan State University

 

 

 

About the Speakers:

Nigel Paneth is a pediatrician and perinatal and child health epidemiologist with a particular interest in the causes and prevention of childhood neurodevelopmental handicap, especially cerebral palsy. After training in pediatrics and epidemiology, Dr. Paneth began his academic career at Columbia University in 1978 in the newly established Sergievsky Center, a research unit created to examine the etiology of epilepsy and other brain disorders. There he conducted studies of the relationship of perinatal medical care to patterns of fetal and infant mortality, particularly in premature infants. Dr. Paneth’s NIH-supported case-control study of cerebral palsy (CP) from 2009-2012 showed that considerable amounts of mRNA are reliably preserved on newborn blood spots, and hat gene expression in the newborn period differs in children who will later develop CP. His continued interest in CP is reflected in serving on the international task force on the definition and classification of CP.

Kelly Hirko is an epidemiologist and community-based researcher focusing on the role of lifestyle and  behavioral factors on health disparities. Kelly recently completed the NCI’s Training Institute for Dissemination & Implementation Research in Cancer facilitated course and is interested in investigating the implementation of evidence-based interventions in tobacco cessation and interested in physical activity to address rural cancer disparities. Kelly earned her Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the Boston University School of Public Health, and her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Michigan State University.

Outcome Areas: Airways

Date: Wednesday, February 12, 1 to 2pm

Presentation Overview:

Drs. Paneth and Hirko will use their cumulative epidemiology expertise to discuss opportunities with ECHO for implementation of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based practives into routine practice, and to improve the quality and effectiveness of healthcare.

 

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