New Publication in the International Journal of Health Geographics

I co-authored an article in the International Journal of Health Geographics entitled “Geographic patterns in wildland fire exposures and county-level lung cancer mortality in the United States” led by Dr. Richard Remigio. We applied geospatial statistical methods to describe patterns in lung cancer mortality rates (2016-2020) in relation to patterns in various wildland fire metrics (1997-2003) by sex at the US county level after accounting cigarette smoking prevalences (1997-2003). Our findings identified counties outside the western US with wildfires associated with lung cancer mortalityand where further study is needed. This analysis used similar approaches to a previous co-authorship in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Volume 32 Issue 2.