Recent publications:

Nori-Sarma, Amruta, Chad Milando, Kate R. Weinberger, Jeremy J. Hess, Nicole A. Errett, and Gregory A. Wellenius. “Association between the 2021 heat wave in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, and emergency department visits.” JAMA 328, no. 23 (2022): 2360-2362. Link

• We quantified the health impact of the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave among people with commercial health insurance. In Seattle, the rate of ED visits related to heat exposure more than doubled during the heatwave.

Milando, Chad W., Flannery Black-Ingersoll, Leila Heidari, Ibrahim López-Hernández, Julie de Lange, Abgel Negassa, Alina M. McIntyre et al. “Mixed methods assessment of personal heat exposure, sleep, physical activity, and heat adaptation strategies among urban residents in the Boston area, MA.” BMC Public Health 22, no. 1 (2022): 1-11. Link

• We assessed heat exposure in Chelsea MA using a range of traditional to novel methods. We saw significant differences across temperature metrics: median personal temperature exposures were 3.9 °C higher than median ambient weather station temperatures. Existing air conditioning (AC) units did not adequately control indoor temperatures to desired thermostat levels: even with AC use, indoor maximum temperatures increased by 0.24 °C per °C of maximum outdoor temperature.

For a full publication list, please see my Google Scholar page