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Publications

Explore publications resulting from and supported by the REACH Center’s research, programs, and collaborations. These publications highlight the Center’s contributions to advancing interdisciplinary research at the intersection of climate, environmental exposures, and human health.

Publications

Cooperman AD, Rempel JL, Adams EA, Cantor A, Fuerte MM, Osborne-Gowey J, Wilson NJ, Workman CL, Beresford M, Harris LM, Méndez-Barrientos LE, Shah SH, Wutich A, Stoler J. (De)centralized Water Futures: Key Dimensions of Infrastructure, Governance, and Operations. WIREs. Water. 2025 September;12(5):e70035. PubMed PMID: 40988935; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12452054; DOI: 10.1002/wat2.70035.

Khaziakhmetova D, Kuklina V. Bridging Indigenous and municipal perspectives on justice in open public spaces of the urban Arctic. The polar journal. 2025 November 6;15(2):324-347. PubMed PMID: 42281929; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13251537; DOI: 10.1080/2154896x.2025.2575711.

Martin GK, Siu TK, Klein WP, Clark R, Fong KC. Neighborhood privilege and environmental conditions in urban parks: an analysis across the 24 most populated urban areas in the United States. Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site]. 2026 April 28;21(9). PubMed PMID: 42164112; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13186425; DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ae5e93.

Lin J, Zhang J, Wei E, Shea K, Wang HJ, Apanasovich TV, Liddie JM, Hernandez E, Norford C, Hu XC. Hybrid Supervised-Unsupervised Modeling for Post-Hurricane Private Well Contamination Risk Score Using Empirical Validation and Community-Informed Assessment. Geohealth. 2026 Jun 17;10(6):e2026GH001858. doi: 10.1029/2026GH001858. PMID: 42317212; PMCID: PMC13273845.

Clark SN, Anenberg SC, Brauer M. Global Burden of Disease from Environmental Factors. Annual review of public health. 2024 December 17;46(1):233-251. PubMed PMID: 39689276; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13237490; DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-071823-105338.

Burkart K, Wozniak S, Anenberg S, Pereda A, Gilbertson N, Ashbaugh C, Goldberg D, Hystad P, Kerr GH, McLaughlin SA, Mohegh A, Brauer M. Global, regional and national estimates of the burden of childhood asthma attributable to NO(2) exposure for 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2023: a Global Burden of Disease study 2023. EClinicalMedicine. 2025 November 1;90:103580. PubMed PMID: 41245534; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12617645; DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103580.

Siu TK, Goldberg DL, Kerr GH, Chen L, Nawaz MO, Chang RY, Fong KC. Tropospheric NO(2) Patterns in Eastern Canada Using the First Year of TEMPO Observations. Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres : JGR. 2025 December 18;130(24). PubMed PMID: 41737307; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12928767; DOI: 10.1029/2025jd044757.

Tools and Products

Explore resources developed and shared through the REACH Center, including webinar recordings, publicly available data sources, and other research products. These resources are intended to support continued learning, research, and collaboration across the climate and health community.

Title	Link	Description
Satellite Applications for Public Health Workshop	Recording	This workshop introduced air quality and weather datasets from as tools used to download, analyze, and visualize these data.
Global Health in Context: Linking Census Data to Health Surveys using IPUMS DHS and IHGIS Workshop	Recording	This workshop introduced two free IPUMS data collections: Demographic and Health Surveys (IPUMS DHS) - harmonized individual records from DHS program surveys conducted around the world - and International Historical Geographic Information System (IPUMS IHGIS) - consistently formatted tables of population and agricultural censuses around the world. The workshop highlighted a new feature facilitating linkages between the IPUMS DHS and IHGIS databases and included a hands-on component allowing participants to download and explore linked data from IPUMS DHS and IHGIS.
Global, multi-pollutant database: Urban Air Quality Explorer	https://urbanairquality.online/home	This tool gives researchers an easy way to compare air pollution measurements in urban areas, and identify strategies that protect health and support cleaner, more sustainable growth.
Hu pilot project "Data-Driven Solutions to Mitigate the Impact of Hurricanes on Private Well Drinking Water Quality and Human Health" developed publicly available data resources related to the project.	All datasets that can be used to reproduce all tables and figures presented in manuscript published in GeoHealth and its Supporting Information are stored on Harvard Dataverse (Lin, Jilei, 2026, "Replication Data for: Hybrid Supervised-Unsupervised Modeling for Post-Hurricane Private Well Contamination Risk score Using Empirical Validation and Community-Informed Assessment", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AIPJSF, Harvard Dataverse, V1).	This project generated risk-score maps for 25 western North Carolina counties at 1 km × 1 km resolution, covering the hazard, physical vulnerability, social capacity, and composite risk score layers.
Hu pilot project "Data-Driven Solutions to Mitigate the Impact of Hurricanes on Private Well Drinking Water Quality and Human Health" developed publicly available data resources related to the project.	The analytic code is published as an open-source R repository, ncwell (https://github.com/water-health-opportunity-lab/ncwell), and archived on Zenodo as Lin J, Zhang J, Wei E, Shea K, Liddie JM, Hu XC, ncwell v1.0 (DOI:10.5281/zenodo.20055227).	This repository contains the analysis workflow for a data-driven framework to quantify post-hurricane private well contamination risk. The motivating problem is that hurricane-related flooding can mobilize microbial and chemical contaminants, while limited well testing and uneven disaster response capacity leave many households relying on private wells at elevated risk during the early recovery phase.
Based on findings from Kuklina pilot project "Urban heat islands effect on public health in Arctic cities," the project team published a plain-language brochure for distribution to local communities in Alaska.	McConnell, S., Kuklina, V.,Khaziakhmetova, D., Hahn, M., Miles, V., Petrov, A., Sorrels, A. (2025). Urban heat islands' effect on public health in Arctic cities. Fairbanks, Alaska. Findings and takeaways.	This brochure was printed and shared with all participants in Denakkanaaga, Fairbanks North Star Borough, City of Fairbanks Mayor’s office as well as with other project partners in Fairbanks and with research partners interested in this topic. The electronic version of the brochure was also shared on Facebook on the partnering groups and pages, and LinkedIn.