Publications
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Publications 2020 – present:
McIntyre AM, Scammell MK, Botana Martinez MP, Heidari L, Negassa A, Bongiovanni R, Fabian MP. Facilitators and Barriers for Keeping Cool in an Urban Heat Island: Perspectives from Residents of an Environmental Justice Community. Environ Justice. 2023 Dec 01; 16(6):410-417. PMID: 38074853.
Khalili R, Legaspi JM, Fabian MP, Levy JI, Korrick SA, Vieira VM. Multiple Prenatal Exposures and Acute Care Clinical Encounters for Asthma among Children Born to Mothers Living near a Superfund Site. Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 03. PMID: 38576180.
Connolly CL, Milando CW, Vermeer K, Ashmore J, Carvalho L, Levy JI, Fabian MP (2023) Simulating energy use, indoor temperatures, and utility cost impacts amidst a warming climate in a multi-family housing model. Urban Health, 100, 1234–1245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-023-00790-3. PMID: 37947996 PMCID: PMC10728384.
Jimenez R, Bozigar M, Janulewicz P, Lane KJ, Hutyra LR, Fabian MP. (2023) School greenness and student-level academic performance: evidence from the Global South. GeoHealth, 7(8): e2023GH000830. doi: 10.1029/2023GH000830. PMID: 37538511; PMCID: PMC10395463.
Haley BM, Patil P, Levy JI, Spangler KR, Tieskens KF, Carnes F, Peng X, Klevens RM, Troppy TS, Fabian MP, Lane KJ, Leibler JH (2023). Evaluating COVID-19 risk to essential workers by occupational group: A case study in Massachusetts. Epidemiology & Community Health. doi: 10.1007/s10900-023-01249-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37507525.
Patil P, Peng X, Haley BM, Spangler KR, Tieskens KF, Lane KJ, Carnes F, Fabian MP, Klevens RM, Troppy TS, Leibler JH, Levy JI. Influence of geospatial resolution on sociodemographic predictors of COVID-19 in Massachusetts. Ann Epidemiol. 2023 Apr; 80:62-68.e3. PMID: 36822278.
Milando CW, Heidari L, López-Hernández I, Black-Ingersoll F, de Lange J, Negassa A, McIntyre AM, Botana Martinez MP, Bongiovanni R, Levy JI, Kinney PL, Scammell MK, Fabian MP (2023). Urban heat experience and exposure in summer 2020: design and methods of a physically-distanced, community-based study in environmental justice communities in Massachusetts, USA. BMC Public Health, 22(1):2314. PMID: 36496371; PMCID: PMC9739346.
Carlson J, Ettinger de Cuba S, Zanobetti Z, Fabian MP (2023). Critical windows of susceptibility for the effects of prenatal exposure to heat and heat variability on gestational growth. Environmental Research, 216(Pt 2):114607. PMID: 36279910; DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114607;
Smith I, Fabian MP, Hutyra L (2023) Urban green space and albedo impacts on surface temperature across seven United States cities. Tot. Env., 857(Pt 3):159663. PMID: 36302415; DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159663.
Tieskens KF, Smith IA, Jimenez RB, Hutyra LR, Fabian MP. Mapping the gaps between cooling benefits of urban greenspace and population heat vulnerability. Sci Total Environ. 2022 Nov 01; 845:157283.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35820520
Bozigar M, Connolly CL, Legler A, Adams WG, Milando CW, Reynolds DB, Carnes F, Jimenez RB, Peer K, Vermeer K, Levy JI, Fabian MP. In-home environmental exposures predicted from geospatial characteristics of the built environment and electronic health records of children with asthma. Ann Epidemiol. 2022 Sep; 73:38-47.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35779709
Black-Ingersoll, F.; de Lange, J.; Heidari, L.; Negassa, A.; Botana, P.; Fabian, MP; Scammell, M.K. . 2022, 13, 1103. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13071103 . A literature review of cooling center, misting station, cool pavement, and cool roof intervention evaluations. Atmosphere. 2022; 7(13):1103.
Milando CW, Carnes F, Vermeer K, Levy JI, Fabian MP. Sensitivity of modeled residential fine particulate matter exposure to select building and source characteristics: A case study using public data in Boston, MA. Sci Total Environ. 2022 Sep 20; 840:156625.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35691344; PMCID: PMC9272360; DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156625;
Evans L, Fabian MP, Gurewich D, Stopka T, Charns M (2022) Medicaid expansion and change in federally qualified health center accessibility from 2008 to 2016. Medical Care, 1;60(10):743-749. doi: 10.1097. PMID: 35948346.
McIntyre AM, Scammell MK, Botana Martinez MP, Heidari L, Negassa A, Bongiovanni R, Fabian MP. Facilitators and barriers for keeping cool in an urban heat island: perspectives from residents of an environmental justice community. Environmental Justice. 2022.
Connolly CL, Milando CW, Tieskens KF, Ashmore J, Carvalho L, Levy JI, Fabian MP. Impact of meteorology on indoor air quality, energy use, and health in a typical mid-rise multi-family home in the eastern United States. Indoor Air. 2022 Jun; 32(6):e13065. PMID: 35762242
Vanoli J, Coull BA, Ettinger de Cuba S, Fabian MP, Carnes F, Massaro M, Poblacion A, Bellocco R, Kloog I, Schwartz J, Laden F, Zanobetti A. Postnatal exposure to PM2.5 and weight trajectories in early childhood. Environmental Epidemiology. 2022; 6(1):e181.
Jimenez RB, Lane KJ, Hutyra LR, Fabian MP. Spatial resolution of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and greenness exposure misclassification in an urban cohort. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2022 03; 32(2):213-222.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35094014
Chu MT, Ettinger de Cuba S, Fabian MP, Lane KJ, James-Todd T, Williams DR, Coull BA, Carnes F, Massaro M, Levy JI, Laden F, Sandel M, Adamkiewicz G, Zanobetti A. The immigrant birthweight paradox in an urban cohort: Role of immigrant enclaves and ambient air pollution. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2022 Jan 04.View Related Profiles. PMID: 34980894; DOI: 10.1038/s41370-021-00403-8;
Spangler KR, Patil P, Peng X, Levy JI, Lane KJ, Tieskens KF, Carnes F, Klevens RM, Erdman EA, Troppy TS, Fabian MP, Leibler JH. Community predictors of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Massachusetts: Evaluating changes over time using geospatially refined data. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2022 03; 16(2):213-221.View Related Profiles. PMID: 34761531; PMCID: PMC8652977; DOI: 10.1111/irv.12926;
Spangler KR, Levy JI, Fabian MP, Haley BM, Carnes F, Leibler JH, Lane KJ (2021) Collection of race and ethnicity data in public health: insights from COVID-19 surveillance in Massachusetts. Health Affairs, in press
Tieskens K, Patil P, Levy JI, Brochu P, Lane KJ, Fabian MP, Carnes F, Haley BM, Spangler KR, Leibler JH (2021). Time-varying associations between COVID-19 case incidence and community-level sociodemographic, occupational, environmental, and mobility risk factors in Massachusetts. BMC Infect Dis.;21(1):686.doi: 10.1186/s12879-021-06389-w. PMID: 34271870.
Milando CW, Yitshak-Sade M, Zanobetti A, Levy JI, Laden F, Fabian MP. Modeling the impact of exposure reductions using multi-stressor epidemiology, exposure models, and synthetic microdata: an application to birthweight in two environmental justice communities. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2021 05; 31(3):442-453.View Related Profiles. PMID: 33824415; PMCID: PMC8141037; DOI: 10.1038/s41370-021-00318-4;
Tieskens KF, Milando CW, Underhill LJ, Vermeer K, Levy JI, Fabian MP. The impact of energy retrofits on pediatric asthma exacerbation in a Boston multi-family housing complex: a systems science approach. Environ Health. 2021 Feb 14; 20(1):14. PMID: 33583411.
Peer K, Adams WG, Legler A, Sandel M, Levy JI, Boynton-Jarrett R, Kim C, Leibler JH, Fabian MP. Developing and evaluating a pediatric asthma severity computable phenotype derived from electronic health records. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2020 Dec 15. PMID: 33338540.
Estimating the Combined Effects of Natural and Built Environmental Exposures on Birthweight among Urban Residents in Massachusetts. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020 November; 17(23):8805-. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17238805.
Vieira VM, Levy JI, Fabian MP, Korrick S. Assessing the relation of chemical and non-chemical stressors with risk-taking related behavior and adaptive individual attributes among adolescents living near the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site. Environ Int. 2021 Jan; 146:106199. PMID: 33126063.
Yitshak-Sade M, Lane KJ, Fabian MP, Kloog I, Hart JE, Davis B, Fong KC, Schwartz JD, Laden F, Zanobetti A. Race or racial segregation? Modification of the PM2.5 and cardiovascular mortality association. PLoS One. 2020; 15(7):e0236479. PMID: 32716950.
Racial Disparities in Associations between Neighborhood Demographic Polarization and Birth Weight. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020 April; 17(9):3076-. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17093076.
Rosofsky AS, Fabian MP, Ettinger de Cuba S, Sandel M, Coleman S, Levy JI, Coull BA, Hart JE, Zanobetti A. Prenatal Ambient Particulate Matter Exposure and Longitudinal Weight Growth Trajectories in Early Childhood. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 02 24; 17(4). PMID: 32102302.
Underhill LJ, Dols WS, Lee SK, Fabian MP, Levy JI. Quantifying the impact of housing interventions on indoor air quality and energy consumption using coupled simulation models. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2020 05; 30(3):436-447. PMID: 31959901.
Publications 2010 – 2019:
Butler L, Gallagher L, Winter M, Fabian MP, Wesselink A, Aschengrau A. Residential proximity to roadways and placental-associated stillbirth: a case- control study. Int J Environ Health Res. 2019 Oct 6:1-10. doi: 10.1080/09603123.2019.1673882. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 31587563; PMCID: PMC7131873.
Petropoulos ZE, Levy JI, Scammell MK, Fabian MP. Characterizing community- wide housing attributes using georeferenced street-level photography. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2020 Mar;30(2):299-308. doi: 10.1038/s41370-019-0167-9. Epub 2019 Sep 23. PMID: 31548622; PMCID: PMC7044024.
Khalili R, Bartell SM, Levy JI, Fabian MP, Korrick S, Vieira VM. Using Birth Cohort Data to Estimate Prenatal Chemical Exposures for All Births around the New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site in Massachusetts. Environ Health Perspect. 2019 Aug;127(8):87008. doi: 10.1289/EHP4849. Epub 2019 Aug 26. PMID: 31449464; PMCID: PMC6792387.
Peters JL, Fabian MP, Levy JI. Epidemiologically-informed cumulative risk hypertension models simulating the impact of changes in metal, organochlorine, and non-chemical exposures in an environmental justice community. Environ Res. 2019 Sep;176:108544. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.108544. Epub 2019 Jun 20. PMID: 31271923; PMCID: PMC6716580.
Evans L, Charns MP, Cabral HJ, Fabian MP. Change in geographic access to community health centers after Health Center Program expansion. Health Serv Res. 2019 Aug;54(4):860-869. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13149. Epub 2019 Apr 1. PMID: 30937888; PMCID: PMC6606545.
Yitshak-Sade M, James P, Kloog I, Hart JE, Schwartz JD, Laden F, Lane KJ, Fabian MP, Fong KC, Zanobetti A. Neighborhood Greenness Attenuates the Adverse Effect of PM<sub>2.5</sub> on Cardiovascular Mortality in Neighborhoods of Lower Socioeconomic Status. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Mar 6;16(5):814. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16050814. PMID: 30845676; PMCID: PMC6427452.
Aschengrau A, Gallagher LG, Winter M, Butler L, Fabian MP, Vieira VM. Modeled exposure to tetrachloroethylene-contaminated drinking water and the occurrence of birth defects: a case-control study from Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Environ Health. 2018 Nov 6;17(1):75. doi: 10.1186/s12940-018-0419-5. PMID: 30400949; PMCID: PMC6219161.
Rosofsky A, Levy JI, Breen MS, Zanobetti A, Fabian MP. The impact of air exchange rate on ambient air pollution exposure and inequalities across all residential parcels in Massachusetts. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2019 Jun;29(4):520-530. doi: 10.1038/s41370-018-0068-3. Epub 2018 Sep 21. PMID: 30242266; PMCID: PMC6428635.
Aschengrau A, Gallagher LG, Winter M, Butler LJ, Fabian MP, Vieira VM. Modeled exposure to tetrachloroethylene-contaminated drinking water and the risk of placenta-related stillbirths: a case-control study from Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Environ Health. 2018 Jul 3;17(1):58. doi: 10.1186/s12940-018-0402-1. PMID: 29970097; PMCID: PMC6029409.
Levy JI, Quirós-Alcalá L, Fabian MP, Basra K, Hansel NN. Established and Emerging Environmental Contributors to Disparities in Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Curr Epidemiol Rep. 2018 Jun;5(2):114-124. doi: 10.1007/s40471-018-0149-9. Epub 2018 May 25. PMID: 30319934; PMCID: PMC6178976.
Basra K, Fabian MP, Scammell MK. Consumption of Contaminated Seafood in an Environmental Justice Community: A Qualitative and Spatial Analysis of Fishing Controls. Environ Justice. 2018 Feb 1;11(1):6-14. doi: 10.1089/env.2017.0010. PMID: 30828408; PMCID: PMC5830855.
Underhill LJ, Fabian MP, Vermeer K, Sandel M, Adamkiewicz G, Leibler JH, Levy JI. Modeling the resiliency of energy-efficient retrofits in low-income multifamily housing. Indoor Air. 2018 May;28(3):459-468. doi: 10.1111/ina.12446. Epub 2018 Jan 29. PMID: 29280511; PMCID: PMC6386461.
Rosofsky A, Levy JI, Zanobetti A, Janulewicz P, Fabian MP. Temporal trends in air pollution exposure inequality in Massachusetts. Environ Res. 2018 Feb;161:76-86. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.10.028. Epub 2017 Nov 2. PMID: 29101831; PMCID: PMC5761067.
Basra K, Fabian MP, Holberger RR, French R, Levy JI. Community-Engaged Modeling of Geographic and Demographic Patterns of Multiple Public Health Risk Factors. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017 Jul 6;14(7):730. doi: 10.3390/ijerph14070730. PMID: 28684710; PMCID: PMC5551168.
Wesselink AK, Carwile JL, Fabian MP, Winter MR, Butler LJ, Mahalingaiah S, Aschengrau A. Residential Proximity to Roadways and Ischemic Placental Disease in a Cape Cod Family Health Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017 Jun 24;14(7):682. doi: 10.3390/ijerph14070682. PMID: 28672786; PMCID: PMC5551120.
Vieira VM, Fabian MP, Webster TF, Levy JI, Korrick SA. Spatial Variability in ADHD-Related Behaviors Among Children Born to Mothers Residing Near the New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site. Am J Epidemiol. 2017 May 15;185(10):924-932. doi: 10.1093/aje/kww208. PMID: 28444119; PMCID: PMC5430935.
Fabian MP, Lee SK, Underhill LJ, Vermeer K, Adamkiewicz G, Levy JI. Modeling Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Infiltration in Low-Income Multifamily Housing before and after Building Energy Retrofits. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2016 Mar 16;13(3):327. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13030327. PMID: 26999174; PMCID: PMC4808990.
Levy JI, Fabian MP, Peters JL. Meta-Analytic Approaches for Multistressor Dose-Response Function Development: Strengths, Limitations, and Case Studies. Risk Anal. 2015 Jun;35(6):1040-9. doi: 10.1111/risa.12208. Epub 2014 Apr 11. PMID: 24724810.
Peters JL, Fabian MP, Levy JI. Combined impact of lead, cadmium, polychlorinated biphenyls and non-chemical risk factors on blood pressure in NHANES. Environ Res. 2014 Jul;132:93-9. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.03.038. Epub 2014 Apr 16. PMID: 24747555.
Levy JI, Fabian MP, Peters JL. Community-wide health risk assessment using geographically resolved demographic data: a synthetic population approach. PLoS One. 2014 Jan 28;9(1):e87144. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087144. PMID: 24489855; PMCID: PMC3904963.
Fabian MP, Adamkiewicz G, Stout NK, Sandel M, Levy JI. A simulation model of building intervention impacts on indoor environmental quality, pediatric asthma, and costs. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2014 Jan;133(1):77-84. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2013.06.003. Epub 2013 Jul 31. PMID: 23910689; PMCID: PMC3874261.
Milton DK, Fabian MP, Cowling BJ, Grantham ML, McDevitt JJ. Influenza virus aerosols in human exhaled breath: particle size, culturability, and effect of surgical masks. PLoS Pathog. 2013 Mar;9(3):e1003205. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003205. Epub 2013 Mar 7. PMID: 23505369; PMCID: PMC3591312.
McDevitt JJ, Koutrakis P, Ferguson ST, Wolfson JM, Fabian MP, Martins M, Pantelic J, Milton DK. Development and Performance Evaluation of an Exhaled- Breath Bioaerosol Collector for Influenza Virus. Aerosol Sci Technol. 2013 Jan 1;47(4):444-451. doi: 10.1080/02786826.2012.762973. Epub 2013 Jan 25. PMID: 23418400; PMCID: PMC3570155.
Fabian MP, Stout NK, Adamkiewicz G, Geggel A, Ren C, Sandel M, Levy JI. The effects of indoor environmental exposures on pediatric asthma: a discrete event simulation model. Environ Health. 2012 Sep 18;11:66. doi: 10.1186/1476-069X-11-66. PMID: 22989068; PMCID: PMC3527278.
McKenzie JH, McDevitt JJ, Fabian MP, Hwang GM, Milton DK. Collection of aerosolized human cytokines using Teflon® filters. PLoS One. 2012;7(5):e35814. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035814. Epub 2012 May 4. PMID: 22574123; PMCID: PMC3344827.
Fabian P, Adamkiewicz G, Levy JI. Simulating indoor concentrations of NO(2) and PM(2.5) in multifamily housing for use in health-based intervention modeling. Indoor Air. 2012 Feb;22(1):12-23. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2011.00742.x. Epub 2011 Oct 20. PMID: 21913994; PMCID: PMC3248980.
Adamkiewicz G, Zota AR, Fabian MP, Chahine T, Julien R, Spengler JD, Levy JI. Moving environmental justice indoors: understanding structural influences on residential exposure patterns in low-income communities. Am J Public Health. 2011 Dec;101 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S238-45. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300119. Epub 2011 Aug 11. PMID: 21836112; PMCID: PMC3222513.
Fabian P, Brain J, Houseman EA, Gern J, Milton DK. Origin of exhaled breath particles from healthy and human rhinovirus-infected subjects. J Aerosol Med Pulm Drug Deliv. 2011 Jun;24(3):137-47. doi: 10.1089/jamp.2010.0815. Epub 2011 Mar 1. PMID: 21361786; PMCID: PMC3123971.
Myatt TA, Kaufman MH, Allen JG, MacIntosh DL, Fabian MP, McDevitt JJ. Modeling the airborne survival of influenza virus in a residential setting: the impacts of home humidification. Environ Health. 2010 Sep 3;9:55. doi: 10.1186/1476-069X-9-55. PMID: 20815876; PMCID: PMC2940868.
Vukotich CJ Jr, Coulborn RM, Aragon TJ, Baker MG, Burrus BB, Aiello AE, Cowling BJ, Duncan A, Enanoria W, Fabian MP, Ferng YH, Larson EL, Leung GM, Markel H, Milton DK, Monto AS, Morse SS, Navarro JA, Park SY, Priest P, Stebbins S, Stern AM, Uddin M, Wetterhall SF. Findings, gaps, and future direction for research in nonpharmaceutical interventions for pandemic influenza. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Apr;16(4):e2. doi: 10.3201/eid1604.090719. PMID: 20350370.
Aiello AE, Coulborn RM, Aragon TJ, Baker MG, Burrus BB, Cowling BJ, Duncan A, Enanoria W, Fabian MP, Ferng YH, Larson EL, Leung GM, Markel H, Milton DK, Monto AS, Morse SS, Navarro JA, Park SY, Priest P, Stebbins S, Stern AM, Uddin M, Wetterhall SF, Vukotich CJ Jr. Research findings from nonpharmaceutical intervention studies for pandemic influenza and current gaps in the research. Am J Infect Control. 2010 May;38(4):251-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2009.12.007. Epub 2010 Mar 12. PMID: 20226569.
Publications pre 2010:
Fabian P, McDevitt JJ, Houseman EA, Milton DK. Airborne influenza virus detection with four aerosol samplers using molecular and infectivity assays: considerations for a new infectious virus aerosol sampler. Indoor Air. 2009 Oct;19(5):433-41. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2009.00609.x. Epub 2009 May 26. PMID: 19689447; PMCID: PMC3684270.
Fabian P, McDevitt JJ, Lee WM, Houseman EA, Milton DK. An optimized method to detect influenza virus and human rhinovirus from exhaled breath and the airborne environment. J Environ Monit. 2009 Feb;11(2):314-7. doi: 10.1039/b813520g. Epub 2008 Dec 1. PMID: 19212587; PMCID: PMC2840048.
Fabian P, McDevitt JJ, DeHaan WH, Fung RO, Cowling BJ, Chan KH, Leung GM, Milton DK. Influenza virus in human exhaled breath: an observational study. PLoS One. 2008 Jul 16;3(7):e2691. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002691. PMID: 18628983; PMCID: PMC2442192.
Fabian MP, Miller SL, Reponen T, Hernandez, MT (2005). Ambient bioaerosol indices for air quality assessments of flood reclamation. Aerosol Science, 36:763-783.
Xu P, Peccia J, Fabian MP, Martyny JW, Fennelly KP, Hernandez MT, Miller SL (2003). Efficacy of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation of upper-room air in inactivating airborne bacterial spores and mycobacteria in full-scale studies. Atmospheric Environment 37:405-419.