Publications

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

In press

Bell ML, K Ebisu, RD Peng, F Dominici. Air conditioning use lowers particulate matter's adverse health effects: results from national United States studies on hospital admissions and mortality. Accepted for Epidemiology.

Anderson GB, ML Bell. Does one size fit all? The suitability of standard ozone exposure metric conversion ratios and implications for epidemiology. Accepted for Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.

Anderson GB, ML Bell. Weather-related mortality: a study of how heat, cold, and heat waves affect mortality in the United States. Accepted for Epidemiology.

2008

Peng RD, HH Chang, ML Bell, A McDermott, SL Zeger, JM Samet, F Dominici. Coarse particulate matter air pollution and hospital admissions for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases among Medicare patients. Journal of the American Medical Association 299(18), p. 2172-2179.

Bell ML, K Ebisu, RD Peng, J Walker, JM Samet, SL Zeger, F Dominici. Seasonal and regional short-term effects of fine particles on hospital admissions in 202 U.S. counties, 1999-2005. American Journal of Epidemiology 168(1), p. 1301-1310.

O'Neill MS, ML Bell, N Ranjit, LA Cifuentes, D Loomis, N Gouveia, VH Borja-Aburto. Air pollution and mortality in Latin America: the role of education. Epidemiology 19(6), p. 810-819.

Bell ML, K Ebisu, K Belanger. The relationship between air pollution and low birth weight: effects by mother’s age, infant sex, co-pollutants, and pre-term births. Environmental Research Letters 3, Art. No. 044003.

Bell ML, F Dominici. Effect modification by community characteristics on the short-term effects of ozone exposure and mortality in 98 U.S. communities. American Journal of Epidemiology 167(8), p. 986-997.
Supplemental Material.

Bell ML, DL Davis, LA Cifuentes, AJ Krupnick, RD Morgenstern, GD Thurston. Ancillary human health benefits of improved air quality resulting from climate change mitigation. Environmental Health 7:41, doi:10.1186/1476-069X-7-41.
Supplemental Material.

Bell ML, MS O’Neill, N Ranjit, VH Borja-Aburto, LA Cifuentes, NC Gouveia. Vulnerability to heat-related mortality in Latin America: a case-crossover study in São Paulo, Brazil, Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City, Mexico. International Journal of Epidemiology 37(4), p. 796-804.

Stratton L, MS O’Neill, ME Kruk, ML Bell. The persistent problem of malaria: addressing the fundamental causes of a global killer. Social Science & Medicine. 67(5), p. 854-862.

White RH, CH Stineman, JM Symons, PN Breysse, SR Kim, ML Bell, JM Samet. Premature mortality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia associated with particulate matter air pollution from the 1991 Gulf War. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 14(4), p. 645-664.

Jiang R, ML Bell. A comparison of particulate matter from biomass-burning rural and non-biomass burning urban households in Northeastern China. Environmental Health Perspectives 116(7), p. 907-914.

Kinney PL, MS O’Neill, ML Bell, J Schwartz. Approaches for estimating effects of climate change on heat-related deaths: Challenges and opportunities. Environmental Science and Policy 11(1), p. 87-96.

Bell ML, JK Levy, Z Lin. The effect of sandstorms and air pollution on cause-specific hospital admissions in Taipei, Taiwan. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 65(2), p. 104-111.

2007

Dominici F, RD Peng, K Ebisu, SL Zeger, JM Samet, ML Bell. Does the effect of PM₁₀ on mortality depend on PM nickel and vanadium content? A re-analysis of the NMMAPS data. Environmental Health Perspectives 115(12), p. 1701-1703.

Bell ML, JY Kim, F Dominici. Potential confounding of particulate matter on the short-term association between ozone and mortality in multi-site time-series studies. Environmental Health Perspectives 115(11), p. 1591-1595.

Bell ML, R Goldberg, C Hogrefe, PL Kinney, K Knowlton, B Lynn, J Rosenthal, C Rosenzweig, J Patz. Climate change, ambient ozone, and health in 50 U.S. cities. Climatic Change 82(1-2), p. 61-76.

Bell ML, F Dominici, K Ebisu, SL Zeger, JM Samet. Spatial and temporal variation in PM_2.5 chemical composition in the United States for health effects studies. Environmental Health Perspectives 115(7), p. 989-995.
Supplemental Material.

Bell ML, K Ebisu, K Belanger. Ambient Air Pollution and Low Birth Weight in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Environmental Health Perspectives 115(7), p. 1118-1125.
Supplemental Material.

2006

Dominici F, RD Peng, ML Bell, L Pham, A McDermott, SL Zeger, JM Samet. Fine particulate air pollution and hospital admission for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Journal of the American Medical Association 295(10), p. 1127-1134.

Bell ML, RD Peng, F Dominici. The exposure-response curve for ozone and risk of mortality and the adequacy of current ozone regulations. Environmental Health Perspectives 114(4), p. 532-536.

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(3), p. 431-440.

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. Environment International 32(5), p. 586-593.

2005

Bell ML, F Dominici, JM Samet. Meta-analysis of ozone and mortality and comparison to a multi-city study. Epidemiology 16(4), p. 436-445.

Huang Y, F Dominici, ML Bell. Bayesian hierarchical distributed lag models for summer ozone exposure and mortality.Environmetrics 16(5), p. 547-562.

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), p. 97-106.

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), p. 404-422.

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), p. 525-533.

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, p. 2372-2378.

Bell ML, H Ellis. Sensitivity analysis of tropospheric ozone to modified emissions for the Mid-Atlantic Region. Atmospheric Environment 38, p. 1879-1889.

Bell ML, F Dominici, JM Samet. Time-series studies of particulate matter. Annual Review of Public Health 25, p. 247-280.

Bell ML, DL Davis, T Fletcher. A retrospective assessment of mortality from the London smog episode of 1952: the role of influenza, temperature, and pollution. Environmental Health Perspectives 112(1), p. 6-8.

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), p. 1531-1540.

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), p. 289-316.

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. Environmental Health Perspectives 110(11), p. 1163-1168.

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), p. 229-256.

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 (Suppl. 3), p. 389-394.