Cole Brokamp, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

cole.brokamp@cchmc.org

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.

Interests

Understanding the heterogeneous effects of environmental exposures and community characteristics on pediatric psychiatric health; develops new methods and technologies to support environmental and population health research, including statistical computing tools for geocoding and geomarker assessment, high resolution spatiotemporal exposure assessment models, and causal inference machine learning methods.

Research Areas

Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Publications

789: NEIGHBORHOOD AIR POLLUTION AND PICU LENGTH OF STAY IN PEDIATRIC ACUTE RESPIRATORY ILLNESS. Pitkowsky, Z; Beck, A; Brokamp, C; Egbo, J; Myers, C. Critical Care Medicine. 2024; 52:s367.

Social-environmental phenotypes of rapid cystic fibrosis lung disease progression in adolescents and young adults living in the United States. Palipana, AK; Vancil, A; Gecili, E; Rasnick, E; Ehrlich, D; Pestian, T; Andrinopoulou, ER; Afonso, PM; Keogh, RH; Ni, Y; et al. Environmental Advances. 2023; 14:100449.

Report-Back of Personal Air Sampling Results and Study Participants' Perceived Knowledge, Attitudes, and Awareness of Air Pollution. Ryan, PH; Wolfe, C; Parsons, A; Brokamp, C; Turner, A; Ingram, S; Haynes, E. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2023; 131:117702.

624 Evaluating precision medicine tools in cystic fibrosis for racial and ethnic fairness. Colegate, S; Palipana, A; Szczesniak, R; Brokamp, C. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 2023; 22:s335.

Impact of Environmental Exposures on Lung Cancer in Patients Who Never Smoked. Chandwani, R; Brokamp, C; Salfity, H; Starnes, SL; Van Haren, RM. World Journal of Surgery. 2023; 47:2578-2586.

622 Hypercubes to identify key environmental exposures predictive of rapid cystic fibrosis lung disease progression. Cheng, Y; Gecili, E; Brokamp, C; Rasnick, E; Ryan, P; Szczesniak, R. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 2023; 22:s334.

618 Environmental exposures and spatiotemporal effects that characterize rapid lung function decline in a Midwest U.S. cystic fibrosis cohort. Gecili, E; Brokamp, C; Asar, O; Andrinopoulou, E; Brewington, J; Ryan, P; Szczesniak, R. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 2023; 22:s330.

Racial Disparities in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Care: Differences in Outcomes and Health Service Utilization Between Black and White Children. Smith, J; Liu, C; Beck, A; Fei, L; Brokamp, C; Meryum, S; Whaley, KG; Minar, P; Hellmann, J; Denson, LA; et al. The Journal of Pediatrics. 2023; 260:113522.

Lung function and secondhand smoke exposure among children with cystic fibrosis: A Bayesian meta-analysis. Reifenberg, J; Gecili, E; Pestian, T; Andrinopoulou, ER; Ryan, PH; Brokamp, C; Collaco, JM; Szczesniak, RD. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 2023; 22:694-701.

Air pollution exposure and social responsiveness in childhood: The cincinnati combined childhood cohorts. Iyanna, N; Yolton, K; LeMasters, G; Lanphear, BP; Cecil, KM; Schwartz, J; Brokamp, C; Rasnick, E; Xu, Y; MacDougall, MC; et al. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 2023; 251:114172.