Selected Publications

2006

Dominici, F, RD Peng, ML Bell, L Pham, A McDermott, SL Zeger, JM Samet. Short-term exposure to fine particles and hospital admission for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases: results for 204 US urban communities, 1999-2002. Accepted for publication in Journal of the American Medical Association.

Bell ML, RD Peng, F Dominici. The exposure-response curve for ozone and risk of mortality and the adequacy of current ozone regulations. Accepted for publication in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Bell, ML. The use of ambient air quality modeling to estimate individual and population exposure for human health research: a case study of ozone in the northern Georgia region of the United States. Accepted for publication in Environment International.

Bell, ML, DL Davis, N Gouveia, VH Borja-Aburto, LA Cifuentes. The avoidable health effects of air pollution in three Latin-American cities: Santiago, São Paulo, and Mexico City. Environmental Research 100:431-40. [Full text PDF ]

2005

Bell, ML, MS O'Neill, LA Cifuentes, AL Braga, C Green, A Nweke, J Rogat, K Sibold. Challenges and recommendations for the study of socioeconomic factors and air pollution health effects: an international symposium. Environmental Science and Policy 8(5):525-33. [Full text PDF ]

Bell, ML, F Dominici, JM Samet. Meta-analysis of ozone and mortality and comparison to a multi-city study. Epidemiology 16(4):436-45. [Full text PDF]

Bell, ML, H Ellis. The impact of biogenic VOC emissions on tropospheric ozone formation in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Air Pollution XIII, WIT Press, Southampton, UK:89-95. [Full text PDF]

Huang, Y, F Dominici, ML Bell. Bayesian hierarchical distributed lag models for summer ozone exposure and mortality. Environmetrics 5(16): 547-62. [Full text PDF]

Bell, ML, BF Hobbs, H Ellis. Metrics matter: conflicting air quality rankings from different indices of air pollution. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 55(1): 97-106. [Full text PDF]

Taji, K, JK Levy, J Hartmann, ML Bell, RM Anderson, BF Hobbs, T Feglar. Identifying potential repositories for radioactive waste: multiple criteria decision analysis and critical infrastructure systems. International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Systems 1(4): 404-22. [Full text PDF]

2004

Bell, ML, A McDermott, SL Zeger, JM Samet, F Dominici. Ozone and mortality in 95 U.S. urban communities, 1987 to 2000. Journal of the American Medical Association 292: 2372-8. [Full text PDF]

Bell, ML, H Ellis. Sensitivity analysis of tropospheric ozone to modified emissions for the Mid-Atlantic Region. Atmospheric Environment 38: 1879-9. [Full text PDF]

Bell, ML, F Dominici, J Samet. Time-series studies of particulate matter. Annual Review of Public Health 25: 247-80. [Full text PDF]

Bell, ML, DL Davis, T Fletcher. Increased mortality and morbidity during London’s great smog episode of 1952: the role of influenza, temperature, and pollution. Environmental Health Perspectives 112(1): 6-8. [Full text PDF]

2003

Bell, ML, H Ellis. Comparison of the 1-hour and 8-hour National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone using an air pollution modeling system. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 53(12): 1531-40. [Full text PDF]

Bell, ML, BF Hobbs, H Ellis. The use of multi-criteria decision-making methods in integrated assessment of climate change: implications for IA practitioners. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 37(4): 289-316. [Full text PDF]

2002

Bell, ML, DL Davis, L Cifuentes, A Cohen, N Gouveia, L Grant, C Green, T Johnson, J Rogat, J Spengler, G Thurston. International expert workshop on the analysis of the economic and public health impacts of air pollution - workshop summary. Environmental Health Perspectives 110(11): 1163-8. [Full text PDF]

Anderson, RM, BF Hobbs, ML Bell. Multiobjective decision making in negotiation and conflict resolution. Chapter 6 of Topic 1.40.4, “Formal Models for Conflict Resolution” edited by K.W. Hipel. Prepared for The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). [Full text PDF]

2001

Bell, ML, BF Hobbs, EM Elliott, H Ellis, Z Robinson. An evaluation of multi-criteria methods in integrated assessment of climate policy. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 10(5): 229-56. [Full text PDF]

Bell, ML, DL Davis. Reassessment of the lethal London Fog of 1952: novel indicators of acute and chronic consequences of acute exposure to air pollution. Environmental Health Perspectives 19(S3): 389-94. [Full text PDF]

2000

Bell, ML, BF Hobbs, EM Elliott, H Ellis, Z Robinson. An evaluation of multicriteria decision-making methods in integrated assessment of climate policy. In Research and Practice in Multiple Criteria Decision Making: Lecture Notes in Economic and Mathematical Systems 487: 228-37.