Sensor innovations to improve epidemiological studies on health effects of air pollution.
The study of health effects of air pollution has been complicated by limited options to conduct exposure assessment, specifically that would allow for personal levels of air pollution exposure assessment. An additional limitation relies on use of secondary data (i.e., hospitalization or death records) to record health events, which may be rare, and not represent the full health impacts of air pollution exposure. This talk will describe sensor innovations from the exposure side (low-cost, personal air monitors) and outcome side (GPS-enabled albuterol inhalers) to improve epidemiological studies on the health effects of air pollution.
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- Date: 21 Nov 2019
- Time: 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
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- 201 E. 4th Street
- Loveland, Colorado
- United States
- Building: Desk Chair
- Room Number: First Floor Conference Room
- Starts 15 October 2019 08:00 AM
- Ends 20 November 2019 05:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
- No Admission Charge
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Dr. Magzamen of Colorado State University
sensor innovations to improve epidemiological studies on health effects of air pollution.
Biography:
Sheryl Magzamen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences at Colorado State University. An epidemiologist by training, her primary research focus is understanding the relative contribution of social factors and environmental exposures on childhood chronic disease. Sheryl has worked extensively in the elementary school setting on developing surveillance methods and educational programs for childhood asthma, understanding the role of lead exposure in educational outcomes, and analyzing the role of social culture and indoor environmental quality and the health and performance of students and teachers. She has active collaborations with exposure scientists to develop refined exposure assessment models in community and agricultural settings in studies of childhood and occupational respiratory disease. Her current methodological work focuses on application of novel approaches to understand environmental pollutant mixtures in community-based studies. Sheryl holds appointments in the Department of Epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health, and at the Veterans Administration (VA) Eastern Colorado Health Care System. She currently teaches a graduate-level course in Geographic Information Systems & Health and an undergraduate course in Human Disease and the Environment.
Sheryl received her BS in Biology from Cornell, and her PhD in epidemiology from Berkeley. Prior to arriving at Colorado State in 2013, she was a faculty member of the Biostatistics and Epidemiology program at the University of Oklahoma.