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Cole Brokamp, PhD

  • Member, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
  • Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

About

Biography

As a biostatistician, epidemiologist and geospatial data scientist, I specialize in informatics and machine learning, with applications to population-level environmental, community and health outcome data.

I have been a researcher for more than eight years and began working at Cincinnati Children’s in 2016.

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.

Interests

Developing new methods and technologies to support environmental and population health research; tools for geocoding and geomarker assessment; high resolution spatiotemporal exposure assessment models; causal inference machine learning methods; roles of environmental exposures; community characteristics on pediatric psychiatric health; electronic health records, observational cohort studies, clinical registries, and vital records.

Research Areas

Publications

Association between Air Pollution, Neighborhood Opportunity, and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Admissions in Acute Respiratory Illness. Pitkowsky, Z; Beck, AF; Brokamp, C; Myers, CN. The Journal of Pediatrics. 2025; 284:114662.

Racial Fairness of Individual- and Community-Level Proxies of Socioeconomic Status Among Birthing Parent-Child Dyads. Makkad, H; Saini, A; Manning, ER; Duan, Q; Colegate, S; Brokamp, C. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities. 2025; 12:2293-2298.

Parcel-Level Housing Conditions and Pediatric Asthma Hospital Utilization. Brokamp, C; Ray, S; Duan, Q; Hartlage, CS; Taylor, S; Manning, ER; Unaka, NI; Jones, MN; Michael, J; Henize, AW; Beck, AF. Pediatrics. 2025; 156:e2024069375.

Incorporating Parcel-Based Housing Conditions to Increase the Precision of Identifying Children With Elevated Blood Lead. Manning, ER; Duan, Q; Brokamp, C. Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP. 2025; 31:621-630.

Reply to: Comment on Anemia in Young Children and the Association With Socioeconomic Deprivation Indices. Haacker, L; Littner, L; Martin, M; Brokamp, C; Beck, AF; Luchtman-Jones, L. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 2025; 72:e31743.

Anemia in Young Children and the Association With Socioeconomic Deprivation Indices. Haacker, L; Littner, L; Martin, M; Brokamp, C; Beck, AF; Luchtman-Jones, L. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 2025; 72:e31663.

Integrating geospatial data with birth cohorts to explore social determinants of health and asthma. Ryan, PH; Blossom, J; Brokamp, C; Zanobetti, A; Gold, DR. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2025; 155:1720-1726.

Outdoor air pollution and psychiatric symptoms in adolescents: a study of peripheral inflammatory marker associations. Zundel, CG; Shampine, MM; Jakubiec, A; Lewis, C; Brokamp, C; Strawn, JR; Jovanovic, T; Ryan, PH; Woodcock, E; Yang, Z; Petriello, M; Marusak, H. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2025; 16:1588964.

Increasing temporal sensitivity of omics association studies with epigenome-wide distributed lag models. Parikh, MN; Manning, ER; Niu, L; Ruehlmann, AK; Folger, AT; Brunst, KJ; Brokamp, C. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2025; 194:1418-1425.

A Joint Model for (Un)Bounded Longitudinal Markers, Competing Risks, and Recurrent Events Using Patient Registry Data. Miranda Afonso, P; Rizopoulos, D; Palipana, AK; Gecili, E; Brokamp, C; Clancy, JP; Szczesniak, RD; Andrinopoulou, ER. Statistics in Medicine. 2025; 44:e70057.

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