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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

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Clougherty JE, Levy JI, Kubzansky LD, Ryan PB, Suglia SF, Canner MJ, Wright RJ. Synergistic effects of traffic-related air pollution and exposure to violence on urban asthma etiology. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007 Aug; 115 (8):1140-6. PMID: 17687439.

Clougherty JE, Kubzansky LD. A framework for examining social stress and susceptibility to air pollution in respiratory health. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2009; 117 (9):1351-8. PMCID: PMC2737009. PMID: 19750097.

Clougherty JE. A growing role for gender analysis in air pollution epidemiology. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2010; 118 (2):167-76. PMCID: PMC2831913. PMID: 20123621.

Clougherty JE, Rossi CA, Lawrence J, Long MS, Diaz EA, Lim RH, McEwen B, Koutrakis P, Godleski JJ. Chronic social stress and susceptibility to concentrated ambient fine particles in rats. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2010 Jun; 118 (6):769-75. PMID: 20194079.

Clougherty JE, Kheirbek I, Eisl H, Ross Z, Pezeshki G, Gorczynski J, Johnson S, Markowitz S, Kass D, Matte T. Intra-urban spatial variability in wintertime street-level concentrations of multiple combustion-related air pollutants: The New York City Community Air Survey (NYCCAS). Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 2013 May-Jun;23(3):232-40. doi: 10.1038/jes.2012.125. Epub 2013 Jan 30.

Matte T, Ross Z, Kheirbek I, Eisl H, Johnson S, Gorczynski J, Kass D, Markowitz S, Pezeshki G, Clougherty JE. Monitoring intra-urban spatial patterns of multiple combustion air pollutants in New York City: Design and Implementation. J Expos Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2013 23(3):223-31. doi: 10.1038/jes.2012.126.

Shmool JLC, Kubzansky LD, Ito K, Dotson-Newman O, Spengler JD, Shepard P, Clougherty JE. Spatial correlations across community social stressors and outdoor air pollution in New York City: A GIS-based approach for social-environmental epidemiology. Environ Health. 2014; 13:91. (Highly accessed)

Payne-Sturges DC, Scammell MK, Levy JI, Cory-Slechta DA, Symanski E, Shmool JLC, Laumbach R, Linder S, Clougherty JE. Methods for Evaluating the Combined Effects of Chemical and Nonchemical Exposures for Cumulative Environmental Health Risk Assessment. Int J Environ Res Pub Health 2018, 15(12), 2797; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15122797.

Sheffield PE, Kinnee EJ, Shmool JLC, Clougherty JE. Violent crime and socioeconomic deprivation in shaping asthma-related pollution susceptibility: a case-crossover design. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2019;73:846–853. doi:10.1136/jech-2018-211816.

Burris HH, Lorch S; Kirpalani H; Pursley DM; Elovitz MA; Clougherty JE. Racial disparities in preterm birth in the US; a biosensor of physical and social environmental exposures. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2019;104(10): 931-935. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2018-316486. PMID: 30850379. PMCID: PMC6732250.

Kondo M, Clougherty JE, Hohl BC, Branas CC. Gender Differences in Impacts of Place-based Neighborhood Greening Interventions on Fear of Violence Based on Cluster Randomized Trial. Journal of Urban Health. 2021. 98: 812-821. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00580-9

Bai H, Capitanio JP, Miller LA, Clougherty JE. Social status and susceptibility to wildfire smoke among outdoor-housed male and female rhesus macaques: A natural experiment. Heliyon. 2021. 7(11): e08333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08333.

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.

Clougherty JE, Shmool JL, Kubzansky LD. The role of non-chemical stressors in mediating socioeconomic susceptibility to environmental chemicals. Current Environ Health Reports. 2014: 1(4): 302-313. doi: 10.1007/s40572-014-0031-y.

Clougherty JE, Rider C. Integration of Psychosocial and Chemical Stressors in Risk Assessment. Curr Opin Toxicol. 2020:22: 25-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cotox.2020.07.005.

Clougherty, J.E., Humphrey, J.L., Kinnee, E.J. et al. What Is “Socioeconomic Position (SEP),” and How Might It Modify Air Pollution-Health Associations? Cohering Findings, Identifying Challenges, and Disentangling Effects of SEP and Race in US City Settings. Curr Envir Health Rpt 9, 355–365 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-022-00359-3

Frueh L, Sharma R, Sheffield PE, Clougherty JE. Community Violence and Asthma: A Review. Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. In press: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anai.2024.07.016

Clougherty JE. Temporality and Recursive Dynamics in Stress-Pollution Interactions: A Commentary. Environ Health Perspec. 2022;130(12). https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP12416.

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