Faculty Profile

Marie O'Neill's research interests include health effects of air pollution, temperature extremes and climate change (mortality, asthma, hospital admissions, and cardiovascular endpoints); environmental exposure assessment; and socio-economic influences on health. She has worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Pan American Health Organization, in Mexico at the National Institute of Public Health and the National Center for Environmental Health as a Fulbright Scholar, and as a Research Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at University of Michigan from 2004 to 2006.

• EHS608: Environmental Epidemiology

• EHS668: Professional Seminar in Occupational Health

• EPID530: Scientific Writing for Epidemiologists

• EPID608: Environmental Epidemiology

• EPID665: Research Seminar in International Health

• Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, 2000

• M.S., Environmental Health Sciences, Harvard University, 1997

• B.A., Environmental Studies/Hispanic Literature and Culture, Brown University, 1990

• Cardiovascular mechanisms for air pollution health effects Climate change, weather and health Environmental equity and susceptible populations Environmental exposure assessment Air pollution, temperature and health in Latin American cities

• White-Newsome, J.L., McCormick, S., Sampson, N., Buxton, M.A., O'Neill, M.S., Gronlund, C. J., Catalano, L., Conlon, K.C., Parker, E.A. (February, 2014). Strategies to reduce the harmful effects of extreme heat events: a four-city study International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 1960-88.

• Fleischer NL, Merialdi M, van Donkelaar A, Vadillo-Ortega F, Martin RV, Betran AP, Souza JP, O'Neill MS (2014). Outdoor Air Pollution, Preterm Birth, and Low Birth Weight: Analysis of the World Health Organization Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health. Environmental Health Perspectives .

• O'Neill, MS, Osornio-Vargas, AR, Buxton, MA, Sanchez, BN, Rojas-Bracho, L, Castillo-Castrejon, M, Mordhukovich, I, Brown, DG, Vadillo-Ortega, F (2013). Air pollution, inflammation and preterm birth in Mexico City: Study design and methods Science of the Total Environment .

• Smarr, M.M., Vadillo-Ortega, F., Castillo-Castrejon, M., O'Neill, M.S. (April, 2013). The use of ultrasound measurements in environmental epidemiological studies of air pollution and fetal growth Current Opinions in Pediatrics 240-6.

• Park SK, Auchincloss AH, O'Neill MS, Prineas R, Correa JC, Keeler J, Barr RG, Kaufman JD, Diez Roux AV (2010). Particulate air pollution, metabolic syndrome, and heart rate variability: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Environmental Health Perspectives 1406-1411.

• Reid, CE, O'Neill MS, Gronlund, CJ, Brines, SJ, Brown, DG, Diez Roux, AV, Schwartz, J. (2009). Mapping community determinants of heat vulnerability Environmental Health Perspectives .

• O'Neill, M.S., Kinney, P.L., Cohen, A.J. (2008). Environmental equity in air quality management: Local and international implications for air quality and climate change Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health .

• O'Neill, M.S., McMichael, A.J., Schwartz, J., Wartenberg, D. (2007). Poverty, environment and health: The role of environmental epidemiology and environmental epidemiologists. Commentary. Epidemiology 664-668.

• O'Neill, M.S., Loomis, D. and Borja-Aburto, V.H. (2004). Ozone, area social conditions, and mortality in Mexico City. In 94(3) (Ed.) Environmental Research 234-242.

• O'Neill, M.S., Zanobetti, A. and Schwartz, J. (2003). Modifiers of the temperature and mortality association in seven U.S. cities. American Journal of Epidemiology 1074-1082.

• International Society for Environmental Epidemiology