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Blog posts : "data integration"

David participates in the "From Free Radicals to Key Characteristics" workshop at UC Berkeley

The event brought together experts to celebrate the leadership of Prof. Martyn Smith in developing the "Key Characteristics of Human Carcinogens" and collaborate on future directions for the Key Characteristics approach.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-free-radicals-to-key-characteristics-ticke…

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David participates in NAS workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Open Data Practices in Chemical Hazard Assessment

David served on the planning committee and moderated sessions as part of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Workshops to Support EPA's Development of Human Health Assessments: Artificial Intelligence and Open Data Practices in Chemical Hazard Assessment

https://www.nationalacademies.org/event…

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David participates in NAS workshop on Triangulation of Evidence in Environmental Epidemiology

David served on the planning committee as part of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Workshops to Support EPA's Development of Human Health Assessments: Triangulation of Evidence in Environmental Epidemiology

https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/05-09-2022/workshops-to-support-epas-deve…

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Comparison of National Vulnerability Indices Used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the COVID-19 Response (2022) Public Health Reports

Wolkin A, Collier S, House J, Reif D, Motsinger-Reif A, Duca L, Sharpe D. Comparison of National Vulnerability Indices Used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the COVID-19 Response. Public Health Rep. 2022 May 5:333549221090262. doi: 10.1177/00333549221090262. Epub ahead of print.…

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David takes part in EPA advisory committee meeting on Assessing Ambient Air and Water Exposures to Fenceline Communities

As a member of the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC), David took part in the meeting "Peer Review of the EPA TSCA Screening Level Approach for Assessing Ambient Air and Water Exposures to Fenceline Communities."

On March 15-17, 2022, EPA will hold a public virtual meeting of the Scie…

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toxpiR package posted on CRAN

An R package for the ToxPi framework has been assembled and posted to CRAN:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/toxpiR/index.html

 

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Demonstrating a systems approach for integrating disparate data streams to inform decisions on children's environmental health (2022) BMC Public Health

Hubal EAC, DeLuca NM, Mullikin A, Slover R, Little JC, Reif DM. Demonstrating a systems approach for integrating disparate data streams to inform decisions on children's environmental health. BMC Public Health. 2022 Feb 15;22(1):313. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-12682-3. PMID: 35168583; PMCID: PMC8845296…

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David interviewed by ABC11 News for story on pandemic community vulnerability

David Reif was interviewed by ABC11 News for the story "How do vaccines impact an area's risk for COVID-19?"
 
https://abc11.com/health/how-do-vaccines-impact-an-areas-risk-for-covid-19-/10821276/

Nnamdi wins Best Poster award at 2021 Genomic Sciences Symposium!

Nnamdi Osakwe won the "Best Poster" award at the 2021 Genomic Science Symposium for his presentation entitled: "Building Comprehensive Models of Environmental Integrity" 

 

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David presents at INA meeting in Germany

David presented a platform presentation at the at the International Neurotoxicology Association meeting in Dusseldorf, Germany. 

David's talked was entitled "The power of data integration for systems neurotoxicology".  It was given as part of the  session "Systems neurotoxicology: From in v…

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Marissa Kosnik successfully defends her PhD!

Title - Data integration elucidates connections between environmental factors and health outcomes
 
Abstract : It is well understood that environmental factors contribute to the development of human diseases. Multiple types and sources of data are necessary to address the complex relationsh…

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Associations between access to healthcare, environmental quality, and end-stage renal disease survival time: Proportional-hazards models of over 1,000,000 people over 14 years (2019) PLoS One

Kosnik MB, Reif DM, Lobdell DT, Astell-Burt T, Feng X, Hader JD, Hoppin JA.
Associations between access to healthcare, environmental quality, and end-stage
renal disease survival time: Proportional-hazards models of over 1,000,000 people
over 14 years. PLoS One. 2019 Mar 21;14(3):e0214094. doi:…

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Marissa presents at UNC Environmental Epidemiology Seminar Series

Kosnik M.B., Reif D.M., Lobdell D.T., Astell-Burt T., Feng X., Hader J.D., Hoppin J.A. Associations between access to healthcare, environmental quality, and end-stage renal disease survival time: proportional-hazards models of over 1,000,000 people over 14 years. (manuscript submitted/in revision)

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