JOHN L. PEARCE, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | Department of Public Health Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Pearce is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and the leader of the Air Quality Lab at the Medical University of South Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Science from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and completed his postdoctoral training in environmental biostatistics at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. His research centers on improving understanding between complex environmental exposures and health and he has served as principal investigator for grants awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the NIH sponsored Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Program (ECHO).
Research Interests: exposure science, geographic information science, environmental epidemiology, and environmental statistics.
Contact Information:
Email: pearcejo@musc.edu Phone: 843-876-1594
Office Address: 135 Cannon Street; Room: CS302P
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Select Publications:
Pearce JL, Commodore A, Neelon B, Boaz R, Bozigar M, Wilson S, Svendsen E. A novel approach for characterizing neighborhood-level trends in particulate matter using concentration and size fraction distributions: a case study in Charleston, SC. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health. 2017 Dec; 10: 1181-1192.
Pearce JL, Waller LA, Sarnat SE, Chang HH, Klein M, Mulholland JA, Tolbert PE. Characterizing the spatial distribution of multiple pollutants and populations at risk in Atlanta, Georgia. Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2016 Aug;18:13-23. PubMed PMID: 27494956; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4977533.
Pearce JL, Waller LA, Mulholland JA, Sarnat SE, Strickland MJ, Chang HH, Tolbert PE. Exploring associations between multipollutant day types and asthma morbidity: epidemiologic applications of self-organizing map ambient air quality classifications. Environ Health. 2015 Jun 23;14:55. PubMed PMID: 26099363; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4477305.
Pearce JL, Waller LA, Chang HH, Klein M, Mulholland JA, Sarnat JA, Sarnat SE, Strickland MJ, Tolbert PE. Using self-organizing maps to develop ambient air quality classifications: a time series example. Environ Health. 2014 Jul 3;13:56. PubMed PMID: 24990361; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4098670.
Pearce JL, Hyer M, Hyndman RJ, Loughnan M, Dennekamp M, Nicholls N. Exploring the influence of short-term temperature patterns on temperature-related mortality: a case-study of Melbourne, Australia. Environ Health. 2016 Nov 10;15(1):107. PubMed PMID: 27832786; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5105247.
Pearce JL, Rathbun SL, Aguilar-Villalobos M, Naeher L. Characterizing the spatiotemporal variability of PM2.5 in Cusco, Peru using kriging with external drift. Atmos Env, 2009 Apr; 43:12:2060-2069.
My Complete Bibliography: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/john.pearce.1/bibliography/46308481/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending
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