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  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Brent A. Coull is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and is active in research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Medicine. Their work focuses on a variety of subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Speech and Hearing, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Pollution, and Statistics and Probability.

Their research topics cover a broad spectrum related to environmental and health effects, with particular attention to Air Quality and Health Impacts, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Noise Effects and Management, Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity, Birth, Development, and Health, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging, and Energy and Environment Impacts.

Notable recent papers include:

  • CMAverse: A Suite of Functions for Reproducible Causal Mediation Analyses, 2021, Epidemiology
  • Population-scale longitudinal mapping of COVID-19 symptoms, behaviour and testing, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Long-Term Association of Air Pollution and Hospital Admissions Among Medicare Participants Using a Doubly Robust Additive Model, 2021, Circulation
  • Childhood Asthma Incidence, Early and Persistent Wheeze, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Factors in the ECHO/CREW Consortium, 2022, JAMA Pediatrics
  • Associations of a Metal Mixture Measured in Multiple Biomarkers with IQ: Evidence from Italian Adolescents Living near Ferroalloy Industry, 2020, Environmental Health Perspectives

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Coull include Joel Schwartz, Petros Koutrakis, Robert O. Wright, Russ Hauser, and Marc G. Weisskopf.

The scientist has published extensively across various venues, with a high volume of work presented in the following:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts (78 publications)
  • Environmental Research (30 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (18 publications)
  • Environmental Epidemiology (14 publications)
  • Environment International (13 publications)

Brent A. Coull's contributions span statistical and epidemiological methods applied to environmental health issues, often addressing complex causal relationships in population health. Their work explores the interface between environmental exposures and health outcomes across different populations and age groups.

Among honors, Brent A. Coull was recognized as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Bayesian kernel machine regression for estimating the health effects of multi-pollutant mixtures

    Jennifer F. Bobb;Linda Valeri;Birgit Claus Henn;David C. Christiani

  • The Teratogenicity of Anticonvulsant Drugs

    Lewis B. Holmes;Elizabeth A. Harvey;Brent A. Coull;Kelly B. Huntington

  • Statistical software for analyzing the health effects of multiple concurrent exposures via Bayesian kernel machine regression

    Jennifer F. Bobb;Jennifer F. Bobb;Birgit Claus Henn;Linda Valeri;Brent A. Coull

  • Prevalence of hyperhomocyst(e)inemia in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease.

    M. R. Malinow;S. S. Kang;L. M. Taylor;P. W. K. Wong

  • Rapid increases in the steady-state concentration of reactive oxygen species in the lungs and heart after particulate air pollution inhalation.

    Sonia A Gurgueira;Joy E. Lawrence;Brent Andrew Coull;G G Krishna Murthy

  • Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Cognitive Function in a Cohort of Older Men

    Melinda C. Power;Marc G. Weisskopf;Stacey E. Alexeeff;Brent A. Coull

  • Diabetes, Obesity, and Hypertension May Enhance Associations between AirPollution and Markers of Systemic Inflammation

    Sara D. Dubowsky;Helen Suh;Joel David Schwartz;Brent Andrew Coull

  • Low-Concentration PM2.5 and Mortality: Estimating Acute and Chronic Effects in a Population-Based Study

    Liuhua Shi;Antonella Zanobetti;Itai Kloog;Brent A. Coull

  • Ambient air pollution and the risk of acute ischemic stroke.

    Gregory A. Wellenius;Mary R. Burger;Brent A. Coull;Joel Schwartz

  • Long- and short-term exposure to PM2.5 and mortality: using novel exposure models.

    Itai Kloog;Bill Ridgway;Petros Koutrakis;Brent A. Coull

  • Lung Inflammation Induced by Concentrated Ambient Air Particles Is Related to Particle Composition

    Paulo H. N. Saldiva;Robert W. Clarke;Brent A. Coull;Rebecca C. Stearns

  • Mechanisms of morbidity and mortality from exposure to ambient air particles.

    J J Godleski;R L Verrier;P Koutrakis;P Catalano

  • Prenatal Particulate Air Pollution and Asthma Onset in Urban Children. Identifying Sensitive Windows and Sex Differences

    Hsiao-Hsien Leon Hsu;Yueh-Hsiu Mathilda Chiu;Brent A. Coull;Itai Kloog

  • A case-control analysis of exposure to traffic and acute myocardial infarction.

    Cathryn Tonne;Steven John Melly;Murray A. Mittleman;Brent Andrew Coull

  • Ambient gas concentrations and personal particulate matter exposures: implications for studying the health effects of particles.

    Jeremy A Sarnat;Kathleen W Brown;Joel Schwartz;Brent A Coull

  • Safety and tolerability of the glutamate antagonist CGS 19755 (Selfotel) in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Results of a phase IIa randomized trial.

    J Grotta;W Clark;B Coull;L C Pettigrew

  • The effect of dose and timing of dose on the association between airborne particles and survival.

    Joel David Schwartz;Brent Andrew Coull;Francine Laden;Louise Marie Ryan

  • The Joint Effect of Prenatal Exposure to Metal Mixtures on Neurodevelopmental Outcomes at 20-40 Months of Age: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

    Linda Valeri;Linda Valeri;Maitreyi M. Mazumdar;Maitreyi M. Mazumdar;Jennifer F. Bobb;Birgit Claus Henn

  • Modeling the Association Between Particle Constituents of Air Pollution and Health Outcomes

    Elizabeth Mostofsky;Joel Schwartz;Brent A. Coull;Petros Koutrakis

  • Evaluation of the Cardiovascular Effects of Methylmercury Exposures: Current Evidence Supports Development of a Dose–Response Function for Regulatory Benefits Analysis

    Henry A. Roman;Tyra L. Walsh;Brent A. Coull;Éric Dewailly

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel Schwartz
Joel Schwartz Harvard University
Petros Koutrakis
Petros Koutrakis Harvard University
Diane R. Gold
Diane R. Gold Harvard University
Robert O. Wright
Robert O. Wright Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Itai Kloog
Itai Kloog Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Pantel S. Vokonas
Pantel S. Vokonas Boston University
Andrea Baccarelli
Andrea Baccarelli Columbia University
Antonella Zanobetti
Antonella Zanobetti Harvard University
Murray A. Mittleman
Murray A. Mittleman Harvard University
Helen H. Suh
Helen H. Suh Tufts University

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