Kristen Cowan
PhD, MPH
Research Topics
Environmental epidemiology; Spatial epidemiology; disaster preparedness and response health impacts of climate-related hazards; health effects of air pollution; structural inequities
Selected Publications
- Cowan, K.N., Krajewski, A.K., Jimenez, M.P., Luben, T.J., Messer, L.C., Rappazzo, K.M. (2024) Examining modification of the associations between air pollution and birth outcomes by neighborhood deprivation in a North Carolina birth cohort, 2011-2015. Frontiers in Reproductive Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/frph.2024.1304749
- Runkle, J.D., Sugg, M.M., Berry, A., Reed, C., Cowan, K.N, Wertis, L., Ryan, S., (2024) Association of Psychiatric Emergency Visits and Warm Ambient Temperature During Pregnancy: A time-stratified case-crossover study. Environmental Health Perspectives. DOI 10.1289/EHP13293.
- Cowan, K.N., Wyatt, L. Luben, T., Sacks, J., Ward-Caviness, C., Rappazzo, K. (2023). Effect measure modification of the association between short-term exposures to PM2.5 and hospitalizations by long-term PM2.5 exposure among a cohort of people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in North Carolina, 2002–2015. Environmental Health. 10.1186/s12940-023-00999-4.
- Cardwell, J., Cowan, K.N. (2022). Local News Sentiment Towards FEMA Recovery Efforts after Hurricane Florence in North Carolina. Disasters. 10.1111/disa.12574.
- Maner, M., Behne, M.F., Cullins, Z., Cowan, K.N., Peterson, M., Brinkley-Rubinstein, L. (2022). Where Do You Go When Your Prison Cell Floods? Inadequacy of Current Climate Disaster Plans of US Departments of Correction. American Journal of Public Health. 10.2105/AJPH.2022.307044.
- Cowan, K.N., Peterson, M., LeMasters, K., Brinkley-Rubinstein, L. (2022). Overlapping Crises: Climate Disaster Susceptibility and Incarceration. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 10.3390/ijerph19127431.
- Slawsky, E.D., Hoffman, J.C., Cowan, K.N., Rappazzo, K.M. (2022). Beneficial Use Impairments, Degradation of Aesthetics, and Human Health: A Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 10.3390/ijerph19106090.
- Cowan, K.N., Pennington, A., Sircar, K., Flanders, W.D. (2021). Asthma-Related Emergency Department Visits in North Carolina Following Hurricane Irene. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 1-4. 10.1017/dmp.2021.143.
- Cowan, K.N., Pennington, A., Gregory, T., Hsu, J. (2021). Impact of Hurricanes on Children with Asthma: A Systematic Literature Review. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 10.1017/dmp.2020.424.
- Cowan, K.N., & Qin, X., & Serrano, K., & Sircar, K., & Pennington, A. (2020). Uncontrolled asthma and household environmental exposures in Puerto Rico. Journal of Asthma. 10.1080/02770903.2020.1858861.
- Chatham-Stephens K, Roguski K, Jang Y, … Lung Injury Response Epidemiology/Surveillance Task Force (Including Cowan, K.N.) Characteristics of Hospitalized and Nonhospitalized Patients in a Nationwide Outbreak of E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use–Associated Lung Injury — United States, November 2019. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 10.15585/mmwr.mm6846e1
- Moritz ED, Zapata LB, Lekiachvili A, … Lung Injury Response Epidemiology/Surveillance Task Force (Including Cowan, K.N.) Update: Characteristics of Patients in a National Outbreak of E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use–Associated Lung Injuries — United States, October 2019. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 10.15585/mmwr.mm6843e1