Jane Clougherty, ScD, MSc

Jane Clougherty

Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
267-359-6072
jec373@drexel.edu
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Degrees

ScD, Environmental Health and Social Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
MSc, Geography, McMaster University
AB (Hons), Economics and Environmental Studies, University of Chicago

Bio

Jane E. Clougherty, ScD, MSc, is a Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. She served as faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health from 2010-2016. Dr. Clougherty completed her doctorate and post-doctoral training at the Harvard School of Public Health, and worked at New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from 2008-2010.

An interdisciplinary Environmental Health Scientist, Dr. Clougherty’s research focuses on the combined health effects of chronic social stressors and air pollution exposures, particularly in urban community settings. She has designed and implemented a number of studies on intra-urban variation in air pollution exposures and source apportionment, including an assessment of diesel-related organic pollution exposures in downtown Pittsburgh. She is Principal Investigator on several epidemiological studies funded by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Health Effects Institute (HEI) --including a current NIH-funded study using geographic information systems (GIS)-based methods to examine how social and environmental exposures may alter the efficacy of pharmaceutical interventions for asthma in clinical trials.

Dr. Clougherty is a board member of the International Society for Exposure Science (ISES), and a member of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE). She was awarded the ISES Sally Liu Award for an Outstanding New Investigator in 2012.

Research Interests

  • Environmental Exposures
  • Health and Place or Built Environment
  • Health Disparities
  • Urban Health
  • Violence and Trauma
  • Air Pollution
  • Chronic Stress
  • Environmental Epidemiology
  • Exposure Science
  • Gender Analysis
  • Multiple Exposures
  • Social Epidemiology
  • Spatial Analysis/Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Violence Exposures

Publications

Gomez L, Kinnee EJ, Kaufman J, Young MT, Cardet JC, Mauger D, Bacharier L, Beigelman A, Blake KV, Cabana MD, Castro M, Chmiel JF, Covar R, Fitzpatrick A, Gaffin JM, Gentile D, Israel E, Jackson DJ, Krishnan JA, Kumar HV, Lang JE, Lazarus SC, Lemanske RF, Lima J, Martinez F, Morgan W, Moy J, Myers R, Naureckas ET, Ortega VE, Peters SP, Phipatanakul W, Pongracic JA, Ross K, Sheehan WJ, Smith LJ, Solway J, Sorkness CA, Wechsler ME, Wenzel S, White SR, Holguin F, Clougherty JE. Variation in efficacy of clinical treatments for asthma by fine particulate air pollution and neighborhood poverty: The AsthmaNet Stepped-up Yellow Zone Inhaled Corticosteroids to Prevent Exacerbations (STICS). Respiratory Medicine 234 pp. 107853. 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2024.107853.

Sharma R, Schinasi L, Lee B, Weuve J, Weisskopf M, Sheffield PE, Clougherty JE. Air pollution and temperature in seizures and epilepsy: A scoping review of epidemiological studies. Current Curr Envir Health Rpt 12, 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-024-00466-3.

Rule AM, Wagner FA, Negi N, Tajouoh-Daghuie CJ, Rosman L, Naiman J, Lange SS, Clougherty JE, Vorhees D, LaKind JS. Principles and Elements for Creating and Sustaining Successful Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for Environmental Community Monitoring Programs: Results from a Scoping Review and Interviews. Environmental Justice. DOI: 10.1089/env.2024.0025. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2024.0025.

Francis AL, Chen Y, Clougherty JE. Sense of Control and Noise Sensitivity Affect Frustration from Interfering Noise. J Acoust Soc Am. 2024 Sep 1;156(3):1746-1756. PMID: 39283151 DOI: 10.1121/10.0028634.

Humphrey JL, Kinnee EJ, Robinson LF, Clougherty JE. Spatio-temporal associations among multiple pollutants and sub-types of cardiovascular events: A case-crossover analysis. Environ Res. 2024 Feb 1; 242: 117758. PMCID: PMC11378578. PMID: 38029813.

Ocampo P, Clougherty JE. Perceived vs. Objective Measures of Air Pollution as Predictors of Asthma and Self-Reported Health among Urban Adults. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023, 20, 6648. PMID: 37681788 PMCID: PMC10487870 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20176648. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20176648.

Schinasi LH, Kondo MC, Edwards J, Clougherty JE, De Roos A, Bilal U. Does urban greenspace reduce mortality inequalities based on poverty, race or both in Philadelphia, PA? Journal of Urban Health. 100, 686-695 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-023-00748-5.

Girma B, Liu B, Schinasi LH, Clougherty JE, Sheffield PE. High Ambient Temperatures and Child/Young Adult Injury Emergency Department Visits in NYC. Environ Res: Health. 2023 Sep 1; 1(3): 035004. PMCID: PMC10336474. PMID: 37448837.

Niu L, Girma B, Liu B, Schinasi LH, Clougherty JE, Sheffield P. 2023. Temperature and mental health-related emergency department and hospital encounters among children, adolescents and young adults. Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci 32:e22. *NIEHS Paper of the Month July 2023

Yang N*, Quick HS*, Melly SJ, Mullin AM, Zhao Y, Edwards J, Clougherty JE, Schinasi LH, Burris HH. Spatial patterning of spontaneous and medically indicated preterm birth in Philadelphia. Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Feb 5. PMID: 37939071 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwad207 *Contributed equally to this work.

Sharma R, Humphrey JL, Frueh L, Kinnee EJ; Sheffield PE, Clougherty JE. Neighborhood violence and socioeconomic deprivation influence associations between acute air pollution and temperature on childhood asthma in New York City. Environmental Research. 2023. 231(3): 116235. PMID: 37244495 PMCID: PMC10364588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116235.

Edwards JR, Gotschall JW, Clougherty JE, Schinasi LH. Associations of greenspace use and availability with self-reported physical and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS One. 2023; 18(3): e0280837. Published online 2023 Mar 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280837. PMCID: PMC9977027. PMID: 36857353.

Escoto K, Clougherty JE, Mullin A, Tripathy S, Burris H. Benzene, NO2 Exposure During Pregnancy and Preterm Birth in Two Philadelphia Hospitals, 2013-2017. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022, 19, 10365. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610365.

Lovasi GS, Shah I, Treat CA, Fry D, Clougherty JE, Perera FP, Kioumourtzoglou M-A, Berberian A. Clean fleets, different streets: evaluating the effect of New York City’s clean bus program on changes to estimated ambient air pollution. J Expos Sci Environ Epidemiol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-022-00454-5.

Burns C, Naiman J, Boon D, Clougherty JE; Rule A. Zidek A, LaKind JS. Research on COVID-19 and air pollution: A path towards advancing the science. Environ Res. 2022. 212: 113240.

Uibel D, Sharma R, Piontkowski D, Sheffield PE, Clougherty JE. Impact of Ambient Extreme Heat on Pediatric Morbidity : A Scoping Review. Int J Biometeorol. 2022 Aug;66(8):1683-1698. doi: 10.1007/s00484-022-02310-5.

Zhang L, He MZ, Gibson EA, Perera F, Lovasi GS, Clougherty JE, Carrión D, Burke K, Fry D, Johnson S, Kioumourtzoglou, M-A. Evaluating the impact of the Clean Heat Program on air pollution levels in New York City. Environ Health Perspec 2021. 129(12). https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP9976.

View Dr. Clougherty's full list of publications on PubMed