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A full list of Dr. Nethery's publications can be found on her CV or Google Scholar page. Selected papers by Nethery Lab members are highlighted by topic below, and links to publicly available statistical code/software are provided where available.

 

Estimating the Causal Effects of Contaminant Exposures and Environmental Regulations on Health

Featured Papers:

  1. Nethery R.C., Mealli F., Sacks J.D., Dominici F. (2020) Evaluation of the Health Impacts of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments Using Causal Inference and Machine Learning. Journal of the American Statistical Association. [PAPER] [CODE]
  2. Nethery R.C., Mealli F., Dominici F. (2019). Estimating Population Average Causal Effects in the Presence of Non-Overlap: The Effect of Natural Gas Compressor Station Exposure on Cancer Mortality. Annals of Applied Statistics 13(2), 1242-1267. [PAPER] [CODE]
  3. Nethery R.C., Yang Y., Brown A., Dominici F. (2020). A Causal Inference Framework for Cancer Cluster Investigations Using Publicly Available Data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 183(3), 1253-1272. [PAPER] [CODE]
  4. Nethery R.C., Dominici F. (2019) Estimating pollution-attributable mortality at the regional and global scales: challenges in uncertainty estimation and causal inference. European Heart Journal 40(20), 1597-1599. [PAPER]
  5. Wu X., Nethery R.C., Sabath M.B., Braun D., Dominici F. (2020). Air pollution and COVID-19
    mortality in the United States: strengths and limitations of an ecological regression design. Science Advances 6(45), eabd4049. [PAPER] [CODE]
  6. Josey K., Delaney S., deSouza P., Wu X., Nethery R.C., Braun D., Dominici F. (2023). Air pollution and
    mortality at the intersection of race and social class. Accepted, New England Journal of Medicine. [PAPER] [CODE]
  7. Josey K., deSouza P., Wu X., Braun D., Nethery R.C. (2023). Estimating a causal exposure
    response function with a continuous error-prone exposure: A study of ne particulate matter and
    all-cause mortality. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 28: 20-41. [PAPER] [CODE]
  8. Nethery R.C., Josey K., Gandhi P., Kim J.H., Visaria A., Bates B., Schwartz J., Robinson D.,
    Setoguchi S. (2023). Air Pollution and Cardiovascular and Thromboembolic Events in Older Adults
    with High-Risk Conditions. In press, American Journal of Epidemiology.
  9. Nethery R.C., Vega S., Frazier A.L., Laden F. (2023). Mobile source benzene regulations and risk
    of childhood and young adult hematologic cancers in Alaska: a quasi-experimental study. In press, Epidemiology. [PAPER] [CODE]

 

Extreme Climate Exposure Measurement, Health Impacts, and Vulnerability

Featured Papers:

  1. Nethery, R. C., Katz-Christy, N., Kioumourtzoglou, M. A., Parks, R. M., Schumacher, A., & Anderson, G. B. (2021). Integrated Causal-Predictive Machine Learning Models for Tropical Cyclone Epidemiology. Biostatistics, kxab047. [PAPER] [CODE]
  2. Nethery R.C., Sandler D.P., Zhao S., Engel L.S., Kwok R.K. (2018). A Joint Spatial Factor Analysis Model to Accommodate Data from Misaligned Areal Units with Application to Louisiana Social Vulnerability. Biostatistics 20(3), 468-484. [CODE]
  3. Considine E.M., Hao J., deSouza P., Braun D., Reid C.E., Nethery R.C. (2023). Evaluation of Model-Based PM2.5 Estimates for Exposure Assessment during Wildfire Smoke Episodes in the Western U.S. Environmental Science & Technology 57(5): 2031-2041. [PAPER] [CODE]

 

Characterizing Patterns and Inequities in Health and Health-Related Exposures

Featured Papers:

  1. Nethery R.C., Chen J.T., Krieger N., Waterman P.D., Peterson E., Waller L.A., Coull B.A. (2021). Statistical Implications of Endogeneity Induced by Residential Segregation in Small-Area Modelling of Health Inequities. The American Statistician 76(2), 142-151. [PAPER]
  2. Nethery R.C., Rusovich T., Peterson E., Chen J., Waterman P., Krieger N., Waller L., Coull B. (2021). Comparing Denominator Sources for Real-Time Disease Incidence Modeling: American Community Survey and WorldPop. Social Science and Medicine- Population Health 14, 100786. [PAPER] [CODE]
  3. Chen K.L., Henneman L.R.F., Nethery R.C. (2021). Differential impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on PM2.5 across the United States. Environmental Advances 6, 100122. [PAPER] [CODE]
  4. Considine E.M., Braun D., Kamareddine L., Nethery R.C., deSouza P. (2023). Investigating Use of Low-Cost Sensors to Increase Accuracy and Equity of Real-Time Air Quality Information. Environmental Science & Technology 57(3), 1391-1402. [PAPER] [CODE]
  5. Li Y., Coull B.A., Krieger N., Peterson E., Waller L.A., Chen J.T., Nethery R.C. (2023+) Impacts of Census Differential Privacy for Small-Area Disease Mapping to Monitor Health Inequities. In pre-print. [PAPER] [CODE]