Sheryl's primary research focus is understanding the relative contribution of social factors and environmental exposures on chronic disease. She has worked extensively in the elementary school setting on developing surveillance methods and educational programs for childhood asthma, understanding the role of lead exposure in educational outcomes, and analyzing the role of social culture and indoor environmental quality and the health and performance of students and teachers. She has active collaborations with exposure scientists to develop refined exposure assessment models in community and agricultural settings in studies of childhood and occupational respiratory disease. Her current methodological work focuses on application of novel approaches to understand environmental pollutant mixtures in community-based studies. Sheryl is the epidemiology concentration lead at the ColoradoSPH at CSU.
Areas of Expertise
- Asthma epidemiology
- Geographic information systems
- Air pollution
- Epidemiological methods
Education, Licensure & Certifications
- PhD, Epidemiology, School of Public Health, The University of California, Berkeley, 2007
- MPH, Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1997
- BS, Biology, Cornell University, 1996
Courses
- ERHS 430 Human Disease and the Environment
- ERHS 332 Principles of Epidemiology
Publications and Presentations
- Raanan R, Balmes JR, Harley KG, Gunier RB, Magzamen S, Bradman A, Eskenazi B. Decreased lung function in 7-year-old children with early-life organophosphate exposure. Thorax 2016; 71: 148 – 153.
- Schulte JK, Fox JR, Oron A, Larson TV, Simpson CD, Paulsen M, Beaudet N, Kaufman JD, Magzamen S. Neighborhood-scale spatial models of disease exhaust concentration profile using 1-Nitropyrene and other nitroarenes. Environmental Science & Technology 2015; 40: 13422 - 30.
- Magzamen S, Mayer AP, Schaeffer JW, Reynolds SJ. Advancing a multidisciplinary research framework on school environment, occupant health and performance. Indoor Air 2015; 25: 457 – 61.
- Magzamen S, Amato MS, Imm P, Havlena JA, Coons MJ, Anderson HA, Kanarek MS, Moore CF. Quantile regression in environmental health: Early life lead exposure and end-of-grade exams. Environmental Research 2015; 137: 108 – 119.
- Magzamen S, Brandt SJ, Tager IB. Examining household asthma management behavior through a microeconomic framework. Health Education & Behavior 2014; 41: 651 – 62.
- Magzamen S, Tager IB. Factors related to undiagnosed asthma in urban adolescents: A multilevel analysis. Journal of Adolescent Health 2010; 46: 583 – 591.