O'Neill Group - Environmental Epidemiology for Sustainability and Equity

Our research in environmental epidemiology addresses associations between air pollution and health, climate change and health (with a specific emphasis on extreme temperatures) and environmental equity. Most research is accomplished using secondary datasets, including vital statistics data based in the U.S. and Latin America (Mexico, Chile and Brazil); data from large epidemiologic cohorts (Normative Aging Study, Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis), data from a study of asthmatic children in Detroit; exposure data derived from ambient temperature and air pollution monitoring networks, and other community datasources, including Census data and satellite images of land use and land cover.