Ongoing Research Projects

  • Born in a Haze: Early-life exposure to forest fires and child health in Indonesia
    • Examines impacts of forest fire–related haze on children’s HAZ/WAZ growth indicators using IFLS data.
    • Develops clustering algorithms and k-means quintile regression for fire exposure.
  • Crude Consequences: The Impact of Oil Spills on Child Health and Environmental Vulnerability in Nigeria
    • Integrates MICS data with daily oil spill trackers.
    • Explores stratified vulnerability and child health outcomes.
  • Climate–Health across Biomes: Stratified impacts of precipitation and temperature on children’s health
    • Multi-country analysis of diarrhea, fever, cough, and WHZ outcomes.
    • Examines biome interactions with climate anomalies.
  • Cross-Border Nutritional Vulnerability in Shared Ecologies (India, Bangladesh, Nepal)
    • DHS-based spatial analysis of child undernutrition near borders.
    • Tests whether ecological context outweighs political boundaries.
  • CRAM (Climate-Resilient Access Metric): Healthcare isolation in vulnerable regions
    • Developing an index to measure resilience of healthcare access to climate shocks.
    • Focus on flood seasonality and maternal health risks.
  • Long-Term PM2.5 Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease in Indonesia
    • Cohort-based study using IFLS (2000–2014).
    • Models morbidity-adjusted CVD outcomes under cumulative pollution exposure.
  • Disaster–Health Mediation: Natural disasters as instruments for water contamination
    • Uses IV regression with MICS surveys to assess diarrheal outcomes.
    • Explores mediation via healthcare-seeking behaviors and infrastructure.

In Progress Methodological Work

  • Multistate Life Table Models
    • Transition modeling between Healthy–Unhealthy–Dead states in IFLS morbidity data.
    • Replication of Payne et al. (2013) with microsimulation extensions.
  • Spatial Climate–Health Pipelines
    • Dynamic extraction of precipitation/temperature anomalies via CHIRPS/NOAA rasters.
    • Integrating z-scores and climate windows aligned with DHS/MICS survey interviews.

Publications

  1. Disparate social impacts by satellite and self-report: Floods in Pernambuco, Brazil — Population & Environment (under review)
  2. Racism, Discrimination, and Scapegoating in the Era of COVID-19 — IMS Policy and Working Paper Series
  3. Environmental Determinants of Migration: Air Pollution in Developing Nations — IMS Blog – Borders and Limitations (2022)
  4. Gender Inequity in Engineering Higher Education: A Case Study of an American University in a Middle Eastern Country — ICIET Conference Proceedings (2022)
  5. The Impact of Faculty Scholarly Collaborations with Non-Doctoral Students — IEEE IRTM Conference (2022)
  6. The Lebanese Diaspora: From Passive to Retaliatory — IMS Blog – Borders and Limitations (2022)
  7. Quantifying Publisher’s Competence Through Scholarly Engagement — Publishing Research Quarterly (2021)
  8. A Case Study of Gender Diversity in a Middle Eastern University — IEEE IT-Based Higher Education & Training Conference (2021)
  9. Setting the Boundaries of COVID-19 Lockdown Relaxation Measures — Library Hi Tech (2021)
  10. Sustainable Gender Equity Influenced by an Americanized Lebanese Pedagogy — World Conference on Women’s Studies (2021)
  11. Toward an Improvement of Engineering Teaming Skills Through an In-House Professionalism Course — IEEE Transactions on Education (2020)
  12. Formation of Policies Guided by Multivariable Control Theory — Operations Research Perspectives (2020)
  13. The Impact of Collaborative Research: A Case Study in a Developing Country — IEEE SMIT Conference (2020)
  14. On the Impact of Multi-Authorship Scholarly Publications — IEEE ATMR Conference (2020)