Ted Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3825727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ted Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ted |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2804-4294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Resident Odor Reports and Differing Health Outcomes in Areas of Industrial Emission Odor, Louisville, Kentucky
Background: Air pollution regulations have historically treated odors as a public nuisance. Participatory, or citizen science, can provide important data through systematic, mobile application-assisted odor reporting. Objectives: This study leverages participatory public health science using the Smell MyCity app to investigate resident-reported odors and their association with census tract health outcomes in Louisville, Kentucky. Methods: We anal…
Evaluating Microclimate Modification and Acute Cardiovascular Stress Responses to a Dense Urban Microforest
The Green Oasis (GRO) Project is a targeted urban greening intervention designed to evaluate the environmental and health impacts of compact, high-density plantings in dense built environments. Initiated in downtown Louisville, the project transformed Founders Square, a 0.64-acre sparsely planted park, into a microforest ("Trager Microforest"), a multilayered planting of 119 trees and more than 200 shrubs. The impact of this intervention is being…
Using wastewater for population-level colorectal cancer surveillance
BACKGROUND: Individual screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) is typically performed through either direct clinical examination, such as a colonoscopy, or an approved non-invasive test that measures CRC markers shed from the tumour into stool. There are known barriers to current screening recommendations. METHODS: We present feasibility data demonstrating the detection of CRC-associated RNA biomarkers in community wastewater. RNA expression values…
Health in Harmony
There is a need to shift from deficit-based environmental health approaches toward a more balanced framework that also considers community strengths at a granular level. The Universal Basic Neighborhood Framework integrates both qualitative and quantitative data across 35 health-supportive elements within topics of environmental, housing, social, and transportation domains, promoting an understanding of health as emerging from a range of environm…
Environmental Levels of Volatile Organic Compounds, Race, and Socioeconomic Markers Correlate with Areas of High Colorectal Cancer Incidence
Wastewater-Informed Digital Advertising as a Covid-19 Geotargeted Neighborhood Intervention
We sought to deliver a geotargeted digital health advertising intervention. We assessed risk of community infection through an integrated public health and wastewater rubric and delivered advertisements between November 2021 and April 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky. The average daily click-through rates for the campaigns were 0.19%, 0.15%, and 0.13%. Results show potential for digital public health interventions that are geographically anchored to …
Does Wastewater-Based Surveillance Protect the Health of Incarcerated Individuals
Addressing the challenges of establishing quality wastewater or non-sewered sanitation-based surveillance, including laboratory and epidemiological considerations, in Malawi
Learning from clinical laboratories, wastewater or environmental (including non-sewered sanitation) environmental microbiology laboratories can be established in resource-limited settings that focus on pathogen detection and pandemic prevention. Transparent discussions on the laboratory challenges and adaptations required for this can help meet the future requirements of health research and surveillance. This report aims to describe the challenge…
Beyond Covid-19
Wastewater-based epidemiology is a promising and expanding public health surveillance method. The current wastewater testing trajectory to monitor primarily at community wastewater treatment plants was necessitated by immediate needs of the pandemic. Going forward, specific consideration should be given to monitoring vulnerable and underserved communities to ensure inclusion and rapid response to public health threats. This is particularly import…
Stratified Simple Random Sampling Versus Volunteer Community-Wide Sampling for Estimates of Covid-19 Prevalence
Objectives. To evaluate community-wide prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection using stratified simple random sampling. Methods. We obtained data for the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, from adult random (n = 7296) and volunteer (n = 7919) sampling over 8 waves from June 2020 through August 2021. We compared results with administratively reported rates of COVID-19. Results. Rand…
Using wastewater to overcome health disparities among rural residents
Wastewater Surveillance Can Have a Second Act in Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution
The success of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination effort may be limited by the ability to equitably and expediently reach the general public in the final deployment phase. Prior experience has shown that significant cultural, economic, racial, and communication barriers prevent widespread participation in public health initiatives, such as COVID-19 testing and, now, vaccination. Public health agencies would benefit from tools tha…
Mourning 9/11
The tenth anniversary of 9/11 presses with new urgency the question of how to mourn. In the presence of that anniversary, I revisit the work of Walter Benjamin and Gillian Rose. The two could be taken as irreconcilable opposites. Benjamin stresses the need to refuse consolation, Rose the need to engage in the work of mourning. Rose accentuates the differences, developing key parts of her account of mourning in direct contrast with Benjamin. I fol…
Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View
Challenging the Chip
From Grassroots to Global
Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood Around 1900
David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist
(2007). David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. Political Theology: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 253-256
Why Elections Are Bad News
Beginning in 1992, news organizations adopted a more assertive posture in covering presidential elections in order to raise the level of campaign discourse. This article assesses the impact of this change in professional norms by comparing network television news coverage of the 1996 Republican presidential primaries with the speeches and paid advertisements of the candidates. A content analysis is applied to both the media and candidate messages…
Challenging the Chip
Why Elections Are Bad News
Beginning in 1992, news organizations adopted a more assertive posture in covering presidential elections in order to raise the level of campaign discourse. This article assesses the impact of this change in professional norms by comparing network television news coverage of the 1996 Republican presidential primaries with the speeches and paid advertisements of the candidates. A content analysis is applied to both the media and candidate messages…
Wastewater-Informed Digital Advertising as a Covid-19 Geotargeted Neighborhood Intervention
We sought to deliver a geotargeted digital health advertising intervention. We assessed risk of community infection through an integrated public health and wastewater rubric and delivered advertisements between November 2021 and April 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky. The average daily click-through rates for the campaigns were 0.19%, 0.15%, and 0.13%. Results show potential for digital public health interventions that are geographically anchored to …
Stratified Simple Random Sampling Versus Volunteer Community-Wide Sampling for Estimates of Covid-19 Prevalence
Objectives. To evaluate community-wide prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection using stratified simple random sampling. Methods. We obtained data for the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, from adult random (n = 7296) and volunteer (n = 7919) sampling over 8 waves from June 2020 through August 2021. We compared results with administratively reported rates of COVID-19. Results. Rand…
Environmental Levels of Volatile Organic Compounds, Race, and Socioeconomic Markers Correlate with Areas of High Colorectal Cancer Incidence
Why Elections Are Bad News
Beginning in 1992, news organizations adopted a more assertive posture in covering presidential elections in order to raise the level of campaign discourse. This article assesses the impact of this change in professional norms by comparing network television news coverage of the 1996 Republican presidential primaries with the speeches and paid advertisements of the candidates. A content analysis is applied to both the media and candidate messages…
David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist
(2007). David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. Political Theology: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 253-256
Challenging the Chip
From Grassroots to Global
Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood Around 1900
Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View
Mourning 9/11
The tenth anniversary of 9/11 presses with new urgency the question of how to mourn. In the presence of that anniversary, I revisit the work of Walter Benjamin and Gillian Rose. The two could be taken as irreconcilable opposites. Benjamin stresses the need to refuse consolation, Rose the need to engage in the work of mourning. Rose accentuates the differences, developing key parts of her account of mourning in direct contrast with Benjamin. I fol…
Wastewater Surveillance Can Have a Second Act in Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution
The success of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination effort may be limited by the ability to equitably and expediently reach the general public in the final deployment phase. Prior experience has shown that significant cultural, economic, racial, and communication barriers prevent widespread participation in public health initiatives, such as COVID-19 testing and, now, vaccination. Public health agencies would benefit from tools tha…
Addressing the challenges of establishing quality wastewater or non-sewered sanitation-based surveillance, including laboratory and epidemiological considerations, in Malawi
Learning from clinical laboratories, wastewater or environmental (including non-sewered sanitation) environmental microbiology laboratories can be established in resource-limited settings that focus on pathogen detection and pandemic prevention. Transparent discussions on the laboratory challenges and adaptations required for this can help meet the future requirements of health research and surveillance. This report aims to describe the challenge…
Beyond Covid-19
Wastewater-based epidemiology is a promising and expanding public health surveillance method. The current wastewater testing trajectory to monitor primarily at community wastewater treatment plants was necessitated by immediate needs of the pandemic. Going forward, specific consideration should be given to monitoring vulnerable and underserved communities to ensure inclusion and rapid response to public health threats. This is particularly import…
Stratified Simple Random Sampling Versus Volunteer Community-Wide Sampling for Estimates of Covid-19 Prevalence
Objectives. To evaluate community-wide prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection using stratified simple random sampling. Methods. We obtained data for the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, from adult random (n = 7296) and volunteer (n = 7919) sampling over 8 waves from June 2020 through August 2021. We compared results with administratively reported rates of COVID-19. Results. Rand…
Using wastewater to overcome health disparities among rural residents
Wastewater-Informed Digital Advertising as a Covid-19 Geotargeted Neighborhood Intervention
We sought to deliver a geotargeted digital health advertising intervention. We assessed risk of community infection through an integrated public health and wastewater rubric and delivered advertisements between November 2021 and April 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky. The average daily click-through rates for the campaigns were 0.19%, 0.15%, and 0.13%. Results show potential for digital public health interventions that are geographically anchored to …
Does Wastewater-Based Surveillance Protect the Health of Incarcerated Individuals
Health in Harmony
There is a need to shift from deficit-based environmental health approaches toward a more balanced framework that also considers community strengths at a granular level. The Universal Basic Neighborhood Framework integrates both qualitative and quantitative data across 35 health-supportive elements within topics of environmental, housing, social, and transportation domains, promoting an understanding of health as emerging from a range of environm…
Environmental Levels of Volatile Organic Compounds, Race, and Socioeconomic Markers Correlate with Areas of High Colorectal Cancer Incidence
Resident Odor Reports and Differing Health Outcomes in Areas of Industrial Emission Odor, Louisville, Kentucky
Background: Air pollution regulations have historically treated odors as a public nuisance. Participatory, or citizen science, can provide important data through systematic, mobile application-assisted odor reporting. Objectives: This study leverages participatory public health science using the Smell MyCity app to investigate resident-reported odors and their association with census tract health outcomes in Louisville, Kentucky. Methods: We anal…
Evaluating Microclimate Modification and Acute Cardiovascular Stress Responses to a Dense Urban Microforest
The Green Oasis (GRO) Project is a targeted urban greening intervention designed to evaluate the environmental and health impacts of compact, high-density plantings in dense built environments. Initiated in downtown Louisville, the project transformed Founders Square, a 0.64-acre sparsely planted park, into a microforest ("Trager Microforest"), a multilayered planting of 119 trees and more than 200 shrubs. The impact of this intervention is being…
Using wastewater for population-level colorectal cancer surveillance
BACKGROUND: Individual screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) is typically performed through either direct clinical examination, such as a colonoscopy, or an approved non-invasive test that measures CRC markers shed from the tumour into stool. There are known barriers to current screening recommendations. METHODS: We present feasibility data demonstrating the detection of CRC-associated RNA biomarkers in community wastewater. RNA expression values…
Medicine (9 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)