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  • 2011 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to the understanding of multiphase flows, particularly the direct numerical simulations of Newtonian and viscoelastic particulate flows

Overview

Howard Hu is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans environmental science and medicine, with a focus on areas including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, water science and technology, nutrition and dietetics, infectious diseases, and periodontics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics such as heavy metal exposure and toxicity, fluoride effects and removal, air quality and health impacts, dental health and care utilization, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, trace elements in health, and climate change and health impacts.

Howard Hu has contributed to numerous publications, including key recent papers such as:

  • Pollution and health: a progress update (2022) published in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Heavy Metals Exposure and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (2020) published in Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Blood lead levels in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review (2021) published in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Stochasticity and heterogeneity in the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 (2020) published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Environmental Cadmium and Mortality from Influenza and Pneumonia in U.S. Adults (2020) published in Environmental Health Perspectives

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as ISEE Conference Abstracts, Environmental Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Environmental Health Perspectives, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Frequent co-authors working with Howard Hu include Martha María Téllez-Rojo, Karen E. Peterson, E. Angeles Martínez-Mier, Jennifer B. Unger, and Christine Till.

Among recognitions, Howard Hu was awarded the Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2011 for pioneering contributions to the understanding of multiphase flows, particularly direct numerical simulations of Newtonian and viscoelastic particulate flows.

Best Publications

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Maternal Fish Consumption, Hair Mercury, and Infant Cognition in a U.S. Cohort

    Emily Oken;Robert O. Wright;Ken Paul Kleinman;David C. Bellinger

  • Maternal Fish Intake During Pregnancy, Blood Mercury Levels, and Child Cognition at Age 3 Years in a US Cohort

    Emily Oken;Jenny S. Radesky;Robert O. Wright;David C. Bellinger

  • Bone lead as a biological marker in epidemiologic studies of chronic toxicity: conceptual paradigms.

    Howard Hu;Michael Rabinowitz;Donald Smith

  • Exposure to bisphenol A and other phenols in neonatal intensive care unit premature infants.

    Antonia M. Calafat;Jennifer Lynn Weuve;Xiaoyun Ye;Lily T. Jia

  • Recommendations for Medical Management of Adult Lead Exposure

    Michael J. Kosnett;Richard P. Wedeen;Stephen J. Rothenberg;Karen L. Hipkins

  • Fetal Lead Exposure at Each Stage of Pregnancy as a Predictor of Infant Mental Development

    Howard Hu;Howard Hu;Martha María Téllez-Rojo;David Bellinger;Donald Smith

  • The Relationship of Bone and Blood Lead to Hypertension: The Normative Aging Study

    Howard Hu;Antonio Aro;Marinelle Payton;Susan Korrick

  • The epidemiology of lead toxicity in adults: measuring dose and consideration of other methodologic issues.

    Howard Hu;Regina A Shih;Stephen J. Rothenberg;Brian S Schwartz

  • Longitudinal Associations Between Blood Lead Concentrations Lower Than 10 μg/dL and Neurobehavioral Development in Environmentally Exposed Children in Mexico City

    Martha M Téllez-Rojo;David C Bellinger;David C Bellinger;Carmen Arroyo-Quiroz;Héctor Lamadrid-Figueroa

  • Use of Di(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate–Containing Medical Products and Urinary Levels of Mono(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Infants

    Ronald Green;Russ B. Hauser;Antonia M. Calafat;Jennifer Lynn Weuve

  • Cumulative lead dose and cognitive function in adults: a review of studies that measured both blood lead and bone lead.

    Regina A. Shih;Howard Hu;Marc G. Weisskopf;Brian Elliott Schwartz

  • A Longitudinal Study of Low-Level Lead Exposure and Impairment of Renal Function: The Normative Aging Study

    Rokho Kim;Andrea Rotnitzky;David Sparrow;Scott T. Weiss

  • Decrease in Birth Weight in Relation to Maternal Bone-Lead Burden

    Teresa González-Cossío;Karen E. Peterson;Luz Helena Sanín;Eugenia Fishbein

  • Urinary phthalate metabolites in relation to preterm birth in Mexico city.

    John D. Meeker;Howard Hu;David E. Cantonwine;Hector Lamadrid-Figueroa

Frequent Co-Authors

David Sparrow
David Sparrow Boston University
Robert O. Wright
Robert O. Wright Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Joel Schwartz
Joel Schwartz Harvard University
Mauricio Hernández-Avila
Mauricio Hernández-Avila Johns Hopkins University
Karen E. Peterson
Karen E. Peterson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David C. Bellinger
David C. Bellinger Boston Children's Hospital
Avron Spiro
Avron Spiro Boston University
Pantel S. Vokonas
Pantel S. Vokonas Boston University
Scott T. Weiss
Scott T. Weiss Harvard University
Susan A. Korrick
Susan A. Korrick Harvard University

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