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Cole Brokamp, PhD

  • Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

About

Biography

As an assistant professor at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, I’m interested in causal inference for machine learning, environmental and population health, fairness in precision medicine and geoinformatics. My research studies the impacts of environmental exposures and community characteristics on child and adolescent health.

One of the most notable discoveries of my career was leading a research study that was the first to show that short-term air pollution is associated with psychiatric exacerbations in children. This study also found that children who are from disadvantaged communities are more susceptible to the effects of air pollution.

I started working at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 2016. My research has been published in a multitude of different journals, including Environmental Health Perspectives, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Open Source Software, Annals of Epidemiology and Health Affairs.

BS: Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2010.

PhD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2016.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2017.

Research Areas

Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Publications

Impact of Personal, Subhourly Exposure to Ultrafine Particles on Respiratory Health in Adolescents with Asthma. Turner, AL; Brokamp, C; Wolfe, C; Reponen, T; Ryan, PH. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2022; 19:1516-1524.

Relationships between socioeconomic deprivation and pediatric firearm-related injury at the neighborhood level. Trinidad, S; Vancil, A; Brokamp, C; Moody, S; Gardner, D; Parsons, AA; Riley, C; Sahay, R; Sofer, N; Beck, AF; et al. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. 2022; 93:283-290.

Neighbourhood socio‐economic environment predicts adiposity and obesity risk in children under two. Conrey, SC; Burrell, AR; Brokamp, C; Burke, RM; Couch, SC; Niu, L; Mattison, CP; Piasecki, A; Payne, DC; Staat, MA; et al. International Journal of Pediatric Obesity. 2022.

Racial Fairness in Precision Medicine: Pediatric Asthma Prediction Algorithms. Pennington, J; Rasnick, E; Martin, LJ; Biagini, JM; Mersha, TB; Parsons, A; Khurana Hershey, GK; Ryan, P; Brokamp, C. American Journal of Health Promotion. 2022.

Understanding racial disparities in childhood asthma using individual- and neighborhood-level risk factors. Correa-Agudelo, E; Ding, L; Beck, AF; Brokamp, C; Altaye, M; Kahn, RS; Mersha, TB. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2022.

Childhood Asthma Incidence, Early and Persistent Wheeze, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Factors in the ECHO/CREW Consortium. Zanobetti, A; Ryan, PH; Coull, B; Brokamp, C; Datta, S; Blossom, J; Lothrop, N; Miller, RL; Beamer, PI; Visness, CM; et al. JAMA Pediatrics. 2022; 176:759-767.

Using Geomarkers and Sociodemographics to Inform Assessment of Caregiver Adversity and Resilience. Shah, AN; Rasnick, E; Bhuiyan, MA; Wolfe, C; Bosse, D; Simmons, JM; Shah, SS; Brokamp, C; Beck, AF. Hospital pediatrics. 2022; 12:689-695.

Mental and Physical Stress Responses to Personal Ultrafine Particle Exposure in Adolescents. Turner, AL; Brokamp, C; Wolfe, C; Reponen, T; Brunst, KJ; Ryan, PH. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19.

Children from disadvantaged neighborhoods experience disproportionate injury from interpersonal violence. Trinidad, S; Brokamp, C; Sahay, R; Moody, S; Gardner, D; Parsons, AA; Riley, C; Sofer, N; Beck, AF; Falcone, RA; et al. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2022.

A high resolution spatiotemporal fine particulate matter exposure assessment model for the contiguous United States. Brokamp, C. 2022; 7.