Maureen Lichtveld
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6056145 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maureen Lichtveld |
| NOMBRES | Maureen |
| APELLIDO | Lichtveld |
| FIRMA | LICHTVELD M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Cumulative Exposure to Unconventional Natural Gas Development and the Risk of Childhood Cancer
The rapid growth of unconventional natural gas development (UNGD), also known as hydraulic fracturing, has raised concerns of potential exposures to hazardous chemicals. Few studies have examined the risk of childhood cancer from exposure to UNGD. A case-control study included 498 children diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, central nervous system neoplasms, and malignant bone tumors during the period 2010-2019 identified through the Pennsylvania …
Development of a Pilot Literacy Scale to Assess Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors towards Climate Change and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Suriname
Prior research has shown that climate literacy is sparse among low- and middle-income countries. Additionally, no standardized questionnaire exists for researchers to measure climate literacy among general populations, particularly with regards to climate change effects on vector-borne diseases (VBDs). We developed a comprehensive literacy scale to assess current knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors towards climate change and VBD dynamics among wo…
Pollution and health
The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. We have now updated this estimate using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuriaes, and Risk Factors Study 2019. We find that pollution remains responsible for approximately 9 million deaths per year, corresponding to one in si…
Big Data to Knowledge Analytics Reveals the Zika Virus Epidemic as Only One of Multiple Factors Contributing to a Year-Over-Year 28-Fold Increase in Microcephaly Incidence
During the 2015-2016 Zika Virus (ZIKV) epidemic in Brazil, the geographical distributions of ZIKV infection and microcephaly outbreaks did not align. This raised doubts about the virus as the single cause of the microcephaly outbreak and led to research hypotheses of alternative explanatory factors, such as environmental variables and factors, agrochemical use, or immunizations. We investigated context and the intermediate and structural determin…
A National Framework to Improve Mortality, Morbidity, and Disparities Data for Covid-19 and Other Large-Scale Disasters
Timely and accurate data on COVID-19 cases and COVID-19‒related deaths are essential for making decisions with significant health, economic, and policy implications. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine proposes a uniform national framework for data collection to more accurately quantify disaster-related deaths, injuries, and illnesses. This article describes how following the report’s recommendations co…
Framework for a Community Health Observing System for the Gulf of Mexico Region
The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) region is prone to disasters, including recurrent oil spills, hurricanes, floods, industrial accidents, harmful algal blooms, and the current COVID-19 pandemic. The GoM and other regions of the U.S. lack sufficient baseline health information to identify, attribute, mitigate, and facilitate prevention of major health effects of disasters. Developing capacity to assess adverse human health consequences of future disasters …
A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Hurricane Katrina
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina resulted in long-term flooding of 80% of New Orleans, Louisiana. Mold-infested homes gave rise to concerns about increased childhood asthma. To address these concerns, a diverse community–academic partnership used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to implement the Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) study in 2007. The study examined the relationship between post-Katrina mold and othe…
Advances in Environmental Health and Disaster Research 15 Years After Hurricane Katrina
Advances in Environmental Health and Disaster Research 15 Years After Hurricane Katrina Maureen Lichtveld MD, MPH, and Linda Birnbaum PhD Affiliation Maureen Lichtveld is with the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. Linda Birnbaum is Scholar In Residence at Duke University, Durham, NC. She is retired from the National Institute of Environmental Health Scie…
Covert et al. Respond
Covert et al. Respond Hannah Covert PhD, Mya Sherman MA, and Maureen Lichtveld MD, MPH Affiliation Hannah Covert, Mya Sherman, and Maureen Lichtveld are with the Center for Gulf Coast Environmental Health Research, Leadership and Strategic Initiatives, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Hannah Covert, PhD, Center for Gulf Coast Environmental Health Research, …
Core Competencies and a Workforce Framework for Community Health Workers
Objectives. To establish a validated, standardized set of core competencies for community health workers (CHWs) and a linked workforce framework. Methods. We conducted a review of the literature on CHW competency development (August 2015), completed a structured analysis of literature sources to develop a workforce framework, convened an expert panel to review the framework and write measurable competencies, and validated the competencies (August…
Disasters Through the Lens of Disparities
An editorial is presented which addresses the author's views about health disparities in relation to natural disasters and public health services in America, and it mentions several other articles which appear in the same issue of the journal and deal with topics such as the vulnerability of communities to disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina, Irma, and Harvey in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Self-preparedness, community resilience, and disaster mana…
Cumulative effects of the Gulf oil spill and other disasters on mental health among reproductive-aged women
These findings may guide efforts to assist those in regions experiencing multiple disasters that occur in close sequence. (PsycINFO Database Record
Reducing the Risk of Postpartum Depression in a Low-Income Community Through a Community Health Worker Intervention
From Design to Dissemination
Objectives. To review how disasters introduce unique challenges to conducting population-based research and community-based participatory research (CBPR). Methods. From 2007–2009, we conducted the Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) Study in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in a Gulf Coast community facing an unprecedented triple burden: Katrina’s and other disasters’ impact on the environment and health, historic health dispariti…
The Resilience Activation Framework
The Public Health Exposome
The lack of progress in reducing health disparities suggests that new approaches are needed if we are to achieve meaningful, equitable, and lasting reductions. Current scientific paradigms do not adequately capture the complexity of the relationships between environment, personal health and population level disparities. The public health exposome is presented as a universal exposure tracking framework for integrating complex relationships between…
Synergism of Science and Social Justice
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Among Immigrants and Refugees
Some immigrants and refugees might be more vulnerable than other groups to pandemic influenza because of preexisting health and social disparities, migration history, and living conditions in the United States. Vulnerable populations and their service providers need information to overcome limited resources, inaccessible health services, limited English proficiency and foreign language barriers, cross-cultural misunderstanding, and inexperience a…
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Among Immigrants and Refugees
Some immigrants and refugees might be more vulnerable than other groups to pandemic influenza because of preexisting health and social disparities, migration history, and living conditions in the United States. Vulnerable populations and their service providers need information to overcome limited resources, inaccessible health services, limited English proficiency and foreign language barriers, cross-cultural misunderstanding, and inexperience a…
Core Competencies and a Workforce Framework for Community Health Workers
Objectives. To establish a validated, standardized set of core competencies for community health workers (CHWs) and a linked workforce framework. Methods. We conducted a review of the literature on CHW competency development (August 2015), completed a structured analysis of literature sources to develop a workforce framework, convened an expert panel to review the framework and write measurable competencies, and validated the competencies (August…
From Design to Dissemination
Objectives. To review how disasters introduce unique challenges to conducting population-based research and community-based participatory research (CBPR). Methods. From 2007–2009, we conducted the Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) Study in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in a Gulf Coast community facing an unprecedented triple burden: Katrina’s and other disasters’ impact on the environment and health, historic health dispariti…
Disasters Through the Lens of Disparities
An editorial is presented which addresses the author's views about health disparities in relation to natural disasters and public health services in America, and it mentions several other articles which appear in the same issue of the journal and deal with topics such as the vulnerability of communities to disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina, Irma, and Harvey in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Self-preparedness, community resilience, and disaster mana…
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Among Immigrants and Refugees
Some immigrants and refugees might be more vulnerable than other groups to pandemic influenza because of preexisting health and social disparities, migration history, and living conditions in the United States. Vulnerable populations and their service providers need information to overcome limited resources, inaccessible health services, limited English proficiency and foreign language barriers, cross-cultural misunderstanding, and inexperience a…
Synergism of Science and Social Justice
The Public Health Exposome
The lack of progress in reducing health disparities suggests that new approaches are needed if we are to achieve meaningful, equitable, and lasting reductions. Current scientific paradigms do not adequately capture the complexity of the relationships between environment, personal health and population level disparities. The public health exposome is presented as a universal exposure tracking framework for integrating complex relationships between…
The Resilience Activation Framework
From Design to Dissemination
Objectives. To review how disasters introduce unique challenges to conducting population-based research and community-based participatory research (CBPR). Methods. From 2007–2009, we conducted the Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) Study in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in a Gulf Coast community facing an unprecedented triple burden: Katrina’s and other disasters’ impact on the environment and health, historic health dispariti…
Cumulative effects of the Gulf oil spill and other disasters on mental health among reproductive-aged women
These findings may guide efforts to assist those in regions experiencing multiple disasters that occur in close sequence. (PsycINFO Database Record
Reducing the Risk of Postpartum Depression in a Low-Income Community Through a Community Health Worker Intervention
Disasters Through the Lens of Disparities
An editorial is presented which addresses the author's views about health disparities in relation to natural disasters and public health services in America, and it mentions several other articles which appear in the same issue of the journal and deal with topics such as the vulnerability of communities to disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina, Irma, and Harvey in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Self-preparedness, community resilience, and disaster mana…
Covert et al. Respond
Covert et al. Respond Hannah Covert PhD, Mya Sherman MA, and Maureen Lichtveld MD, MPH Affiliation Hannah Covert, Mya Sherman, and Maureen Lichtveld are with the Center for Gulf Coast Environmental Health Research, Leadership and Strategic Initiatives, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Hannah Covert, PhD, Center for Gulf Coast Environmental Health Research, …
Core Competencies and a Workforce Framework for Community Health Workers
Objectives. To establish a validated, standardized set of core competencies for community health workers (CHWs) and a linked workforce framework. Methods. We conducted a review of the literature on CHW competency development (August 2015), completed a structured analysis of literature sources to develop a workforce framework, convened an expert panel to review the framework and write measurable competencies, and validated the competencies (August…
Framework for a Community Health Observing System for the Gulf of Mexico Region
The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) region is prone to disasters, including recurrent oil spills, hurricanes, floods, industrial accidents, harmful algal blooms, and the current COVID-19 pandemic. The GoM and other regions of the U.S. lack sufficient baseline health information to identify, attribute, mitigate, and facilitate prevention of major health effects of disasters. Developing capacity to assess adverse human health consequences of future disasters …
A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Hurricane Katrina
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina resulted in long-term flooding of 80% of New Orleans, Louisiana. Mold-infested homes gave rise to concerns about increased childhood asthma. To address these concerns, a diverse community–academic partnership used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to implement the Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) study in 2007. The study examined the relationship between post-Katrina mold and othe…
Advances in Environmental Health and Disaster Research 15 Years After Hurricane Katrina
Advances in Environmental Health and Disaster Research 15 Years After Hurricane Katrina Maureen Lichtveld MD, MPH, and Linda Birnbaum PhD Affiliation Maureen Lichtveld is with the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. Linda Birnbaum is Scholar In Residence at Duke University, Durham, NC. She is retired from the National Institute of Environmental Health Scie…
A National Framework to Improve Mortality, Morbidity, and Disparities Data for Covid-19 and Other Large-Scale Disasters
Timely and accurate data on COVID-19 cases and COVID-19‒related deaths are essential for making decisions with significant health, economic, and policy implications. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine proposes a uniform national framework for data collection to more accurately quantify disaster-related deaths, injuries, and illnesses. This article describes how following the report’s recommendations co…
Pollution and health
The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. We have now updated this estimate using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuriaes, and Risk Factors Study 2019. We find that pollution remains responsible for approximately 9 million deaths per year, corresponding to one in si…
Big Data to Knowledge Analytics Reveals the Zika Virus Epidemic as Only One of Multiple Factors Contributing to a Year-Over-Year 28-Fold Increase in Microcephaly Incidence
During the 2015-2016 Zika Virus (ZIKV) epidemic in Brazil, the geographical distributions of ZIKV infection and microcephaly outbreaks did not align. This raised doubts about the virus as the single cause of the microcephaly outbreak and led to research hypotheses of alternative explanatory factors, such as environmental variables and factors, agrochemical use, or immunizations. We investigated context and the intermediate and structural determin…
Development of a Pilot Literacy Scale to Assess Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors towards Climate Change and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Suriname
Prior research has shown that climate literacy is sparse among low- and middle-income countries. Additionally, no standardized questionnaire exists for researchers to measure climate literacy among general populations, particularly with regards to climate change effects on vector-borne diseases (VBDs). We developed a comprehensive literacy scale to assess current knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors towards climate change and VBD dynamics among wo…
Cumulative Exposure to Unconventional Natural Gas Development and the Risk of Childhood Cancer
The rapid growth of unconventional natural gas development (UNGD), also known as hydraulic fracturing, has raised concerns of potential exposures to hazardous chemicals. Few studies have examined the risk of childhood cancer from exposure to UNGD. A case-control study included 498 children diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, central nervous system neoplasms, and malignant bone tumors during the period 2010-2019 identified through the Pennsylvania …
Medicine (18 obras) · Environmental health (15 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Public health (11 obras) · Nursing (9 obras) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (7 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Disaster Response and Management (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Business (5 obras)