Publications

How do multiple environmental exposures affect suicide risk?

Amanda Bakian, PhD, a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and CEEHI member, plans to find out. In a recently funded study (NIH NIEHS R01) entitled “The influence of multiple environmental exposures on suicide risk“, Dr. Bakian and her team will use data-intensive methods to gain insight into the nature of gene-environment interactions …

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Real-time remote sensing of air quality in mongolia

Remote locations pose particular challenges for air quality sensing. Phil Lundrigan, a CEEHI member, University of Utah graduate, and Brigham Young University faculty member, recently led an effort to deploy a network of home-based sensors in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. You can read more about this interesting case in remote air quality monitoring in his recent IEEE …

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Exposure Health Informatics Ecosystem

The University of Utah’s Exposure Health Informatics Ecosystem (EHIE) is a sensor-based, data-intensive infrastructure for measuring environmental, physiological, and behavioral factors for performing pediatric and adult epidemiological studies.

Charting the life course: Emerging opportunities to advance scientific approaches using life course research

Abstract Life course research embraces the complexity of health and disease development, tackling the extensive interactions between genetics and environment. This interdisciplinary blueprint, or theoretical framework, offers a structure for research ideas and specifies relationships between related factors. Traditionally, methodological approaches attempt to reduce the complexity of these dynamic interactions and decompose health into component …

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Human activity pattern implications for modeling SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Background and Objectives SARS-CoV-2 emerged in December 2019 and rapidly spread into a global pandemic. Designing optimal community responses (social distancing, vaccination) is dependent on the stage of the disease progression, discovery of asymptomatic individuals, changes in virulence of the pathogen, and current levels of herd immunity. Community strategies may have severe and undesirable social …

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