Dr. Amanda Northcross, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, uses her “background in environmental chemistry and engineering” to study and specialize in “the chemical constituents of airborne pollutants and monitory human exposures to air pollution.” Areas of Dr. Northcross’ expertise include but are not limited to Environmental and Occupational Health and Global Environmental Health.
While Dr. Northcross studies the factors and effects of air pollution in DC, her studies span across the globe. To learn more about Dr. Northcross’ “Clearing DC’s Air,” please click here. Dr. Northcross also studies factors and effects that contribute to air pollution in Guatemala, Nigeria, and North East Brazil.
In Guatemala,” Dr. Northcross studies “quantifying the health effects of household air pollution from wood-fired cookstoves, and a randomized trial in Nigeria investigating whether replacing pregnant women's wood-fired cookstoves with clean-cooking ethanol stoves can reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes such as premature delivery and low birth weight. Currently she is working in North East Brazil in collaboration with local fishermen and women to assess the impacts of the neighboring petrochemical industry.”
To learn more about Dr. Northcross’ recent work in Brazil, please click here. Recently, Dr. Northcross and other scholars published Use of Citizen Science-Derived Data for Spatial and Temporal Modeling of Particulate Matter near the US/Mexico Border. Scholars’ “analysis provides some of the initial evidence for the utility of citizen science-derived pollution measurements to develop spatial and temporal models which can make estimates of pollution levels throughout vulnerable communities” (1). To read the full article, please click here.
We are honored to have Dr. Northcross serve as a Nashman Affiliate. If you would like more information on getting your Community Engaged Scholarship course designated, please click here.
