Research Bio
Dr. Rich's research interests are quite broad, but his research focuses on the cardiovascular, respiratory, and perinatal/reproductive health effects of exposures to environmental agents such as ambient air pollution, phthalates, bisphenol A, and perchlorate. Dr. Rich is an environmental epidemiologist whose research is directed at understanding not only if specific environmental agents impact health, but also by what mechanism, and in what potentially susceptible sub-group of the population. He also examines the utility of different methodological approaches to address these environmental epidemiology research questions.
Dr. Rich is currently examining the risk of myocardial infarction associated with fine particulate air pollution and specific chemical constituents of fine particulate matter, effects of the drastic air pollution reductions during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics on the preterm birth rate and birth weight in Beijing pregnancies/births, and effects of that same Olympic air pollution reduction on cardio-respiratory biomarkers of various mechanistic pathways thought to underlie air pollutant's effect on cardio-respiratory morbidity/mortality among healthy young medical residents living in Beijing. Other studies are examining the endocrine disruption and inflammatory effect of phthalates, perchlorate, and bisphenol A exposure during pregnancy, and acute cardiovascular responses to varying concentrations of a controlled exposure of ozone in adults.
2013 May
Baxter LK, Burke J, Lunden M, Turpin BJ, Rich DQ, Thevenet-Morrison K, Hodas N, Ozkaynak H. "Influence of human activity patterns, particle composition, and residential air exchange rates on modeled distributions of PM2.5 exposure compared with central-site monitoring data." Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology. 2013 May 0; 23(3):241-7. Epub 2013 Jan 16. |
2013 May
Gong J, Zhu T, Kipen H, Wang G, Hu M, Ohman-Strickland P, Lu SE, Zhang L, Wang Y, Zhu P, Rich DQ, Diehl SR, Huang W, Zhang JJ. "Malondialdehyde in exhaled breath condensate and urine as a biomarker of air pollution induced oxidative stress." Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology. 2013 May 0; 23(3):322-7. Epub 2013 Jan 16. |
2013 Mar
Dadvand P, Parker J, Bell ML, Bonzini M, Brauer M, Darrow LA, Gehring U, Glinianaia SV, Gouveia N, Ha EH, Leem JH, van den Hooven EH, Jalaludin B, Jesdale BM, Lepeule J, Morello-Frosch R, Morgan GG, Pesatori AC, Pierik FH, Pless-Mulloli T, Rich DQ, Sathyanarayana S, Seo J, Slama R, Strickland M, Tamburic L, Wartenberg D, Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Woodruff TJ. "Maternal exposure to particulate air pollution and term birth weight: a multi-country evaluation of effect and heterogeneity." Environmental health perspectives. 2013 Mar 0; 121(3):267-373. Epub 2012 Dec 28. |
2013
Zhang J, Kipen H, Zhu T, Wang G, Huang W, Rich DQ, Zhu P, Wang Y, Lu SE, Ohman-Strickland P, Diehl S, Hu M, Tong J, Gong J. "Cardio-respiratory Biomarker responses of healthy young adults to drastic air quality changes surrounding the Beijing Olympics". Health Effects Institute Research Report. 2013; . |
2012 Sep
Hodas N, Meng Q, Lunden MM, Rich DQ, Ozkaynak H, Baxter LK, Zhang Q, Turpin BJ. "Variability in the fraction of ambient fine particulate matter found indoors and observed heterogeneity in health effect estimates." Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology. 2012 Sep 0; 22(5):448-54. Epub 2012 May 23. |
