Jen uses geospatial analytics to study human exposure to ambient air pollution and works on environmental issues that have disproportionate impacts on marginalized communities. She develops modeling approaches to characterize the movement of air pollution in the built environment, how physical characteristics of the environment may act to modify human exposure, and how additional personal and neighborhood characteristics may interact with exposures to modify health impacts. Other interests include studying if access to data may empower communities to advocate for improved environmental conditions.

Roles

• Fellows

Publications

• Disparities in Distribution of Particulate Matter Emissions from US Coal-Fired Power Plants by Race and Poverty Status After Accounting for Reductions in Operations Between 2015 and 2017 (2020)
• Influence of exposure measurement errors on results from epidemiologic studies of different designs (2019)
• A cross-disciplinary evaluation of evidence for multipollutant effects on cardiovascular disease (2018)
• Disparities in Distribution of Particulate Matter Emission Sources by Race and Poverty Status (2018)
• Factors associated with NO2 and NOX concentration gradients near a highway (2018)
• Estimation of on-road NO2 concentrations, NO2/NOX ratios, and related roadway gradients from near-road monitoring data (2017)
• Maternal Exposure to Nitrogen Dioxide, Intake of Methyl Nutrients, and Congenital Heart Defects in Offspring (2017)
• NO to NO 2 conversion rate analysis and implications for dispersion model chemistry methods using Las Vegas, Nevada near-road field measurements (2017)
• Air Pollution Exposure Model for Individuals (EMI) in Health Studies: Evaluation for Ambient PM2.5 in Central North Carolina (2015)
• Cross-species coherence in effects and modes of action in support of causality determinations in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Integrated Science Assessment for Lead (2015)

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