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Patrick L. Kinney, Sc.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Public Health (Environmental Health Sciences)
Patrick L. Kinney, Sc.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Public Health (Environmental Health Sciences)
Dr. Kinney teaches and carries out research addressing the human health impacts of air pollution. He has a particular interest in the impacts of motor vehicle pollution in urban areas and in the context of suburban sprawl. He teaches the course 'Air Pollution' in the EHS department, co-directs the course 'Urban Environmental Planning' at the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and guest lectures on air pollution and health in several other courses, including Environmental Epidemiology, Asthma Epidemiology, and the EHS Core.
His research interests include:
1) Assessing heat and air quality related human health effects of changing climate and land uses.
2) Characterizing outdoor, indoor, and personal concentrations of a variety of toxic air pollutants to which urban residents are exposed. Pollutants of interests include respirable particles, metals, volatile organic compounds, and aldehydes.
3) Documenting the health impacts of diesel vehicle emissions in NYC, especially among school children.
4) Investigating the respiratory effects of long-term (i.e., 18-year) ozone and particle exposures in a college students.
5) Applying spatial methods, including Geographic Information Systems, to the analysis of environmental exposure and health effects data.
6) Studying the acute relationship between daily asthma emergency room visits and ambient air pollution.
7) Assessing exposures and health impacts of air pollution at the cellular and molecular level using human biological samples derived from epidemiology studies.
Lena, T.S., Ochieng, V., Carter, M., Holguín-Veras, J., and Kinney, P.L. Elemental carbon and PM2.5 levels in an urban community heavily impacted by truck traffic. Environ. Health Perspect. 110:1009-1015 (2002).
Kinney, P.L., Aggarwal, M., Northridge, M.E., Janssen, N.A.H.,and Shepard, P. Airborne concentrations of PM2.5 and diesel exhaust particles on Harlem sidewalks: a community-based pilot study. Environ. Health Perspect. 108:213-218 (2000).
Kinney, P.L. and Lippmann, M. Respiratory effects of seasonal exposures to ozone and particles. Archives Environ. Health. 55:210-216 (2000).
Kinney, P.L., The pulmonary effects of outdoor ozone and particle air pollution. Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 20:601-607(1999).
Galizia, A., and Kinney, P.L. Long-term residence in areas of high ozone: associations with respiratory health in a nationwide sample of non-smoking young adults. Environ. Health Perspect. 107:675-679 (1999)
Kinney, P.L., Nilsen, D.M., Lippmann, M., Brescia, M., Gordon, T., McGovern, T., El Fawal, H., Devlin, R.B., and Rom, W.N. Biomarkers of lung inflammation in recreational joggers exposed to ozone. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 154:1430-1435(1996).
