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ArticleCurrent environmental health reports2025

Pitfalls of Using Negative Control Outcomes in Environmental Epidemiology.

Heather McBrien, Kara E Rudolph, Joan A Casey, Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, Shodai Inose, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou

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6 authors.

Heather McBrienColumbia Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, New York, NY, USA. hm2913@cumc.columbia.edu.
Kara E RudolphColumbia Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, New York, NY, USA.
Joan A CaseyUniversity of Washington School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA.
Elizabeth Rose MayedaUniversity of California Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Shodai InoseColumbia Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, New York, NY, USA.
Marianthi-Anna KioumourtzoglouColumbia Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

True Metal fac coreP30ES009089 · NIEHS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MATTHEW S PERZANOWSKI · 1998 to 2026
$44.7M
XENOBIOTIC BIOTRANSFORMATION AND DISPOSITIONP30ES007033 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI ALI SHOJAIE · 1995 to 2026
$42.5M
Project 4: Social isolation as a driver of AD/ADRD incidence and disparitiesP01AG082653 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI Paola Gilsanz, Medellena Maria Glymour · 2024 to 2026
$23.6M
Integrating Air Pollution Prediction Models: Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation in Health StudiesR01ES030616 · NIEHS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI DOMINICI, FRANCESCA, KIOUMOURTZOGLOU, MARIANTHI-ANNA · 2020 to 2024
$3.1M
Network biology-based markers of extreme weather-induced neurodegenerationP20AG093975 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI KIOUMOURTZOGLOU, MARIANTHI-ANNA · 2024 to 2025
$2.8M
CIHR Doctoral Foreign Study AwardNIA NIH HHS P01 AG082653NIA NIH HHS P01AG082653NIA NIH HHS P20 AG093975NIEHS NIH HHS P30ES007033NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES009089NIH HHS R01 ES030616
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