Mercedes A Bravo
Assistant Research Professor of Global Health Institute
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Research Professor of Global Health Institute, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2021
Contact Information
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Yale University 2014
- Recognition
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In the News
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AUG 17, 2022 Duke Global Health Institute
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- Expertise
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Subject Headings
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Disparate Exposures, Disparate Outcomes: The Effect of Cumulative Disadvantage awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2024
- CEHI data manager awarded by University of Notre Dame 2022 - 2023
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Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants
- Health Effects of Environmental Exposures and Social Determinants of Health as it Relates to Coronavirus and COVID19 Outcomes awarded by EPA 2022
- Bringing Modern Data Science Tools to Bear on Environmental Mixtures awarded by University of Notre Dame 2021 - 2023
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Academic Articles
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Deziel, Nicole C., Joshua L. Warren, Mercedes A. Bravo, Franchesca Macalintal, Rachel T. Kimbro, and Michelle L. Bell. “Assessing community-level exposure to social vulnerability and isolation: spatial patterning and urban-rural differences.” Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology 33, no. 2 (March 2023): 198–206. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-022-00435-8.Full Text
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Fang, Bo, Mercedes A. Bravo, Hong Wang, Lulu Sheng, Wenyi Wu, Yuanke Zhou, Xuan Xi, Truls Østbye, and Qin Liu. “Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are associated with later puberty in girls: A longitudinal study.” Sci Total Environ 846 (November 10, 2022): 157497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157497.Full Text Link to Item
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Alifa, Mariana, Stefano Castruccio, Diogo Bolster, Mercedes Bravo, and Paola Crippa. “Information entropy tradeoffs for efficient uncertainty reduction in estimates of air pollution mortality.” Environmental Research 212, no. Pt D (September 2022): 113587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113587.Full Text
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Zhou, Shan, Robert J. Griffin, Alexander Bui, Aaron Lilienfeld Asbun, Mercedes A. Bravo, Claire Osgood, and Marie Lynn Miranda. “Disparities in air quality downscaler model uncertainty across socioeconomic and demographic indicators in North Carolina.” Environmental Research 212, no. Pt C (September 2022): 113418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113418.Full Text
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Bravo, Mercedes A., Dominique Zephyr, Daniel Kowal, Katherine Ensor, and Marie Lynn Miranda. “Racial residential segregation shapes the relationship between early childhood lead exposure and fourth-grade standardized test scores.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119, no. 34 (August 2022): e2117868119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2117868119.Full Text
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Bravo, Mercedes A., Joshua L. Warren, Man Chong Leong, Nicole C. Deziel, Rachel T. Kimbro, Michelle L. Bell, and Marie Lynn Miranda. “Where Is Air Quality Improving, and Who Benefits? A Study of PM2.5 and Ozone Over 15 Years.” American Journal of Epidemiology 191, no. 7 (June 2022): 1258–69. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwac059.Full Text
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Bravo, Mercedes A., and Marie Lynn Miranda. “A longitudinal study of exposure to fine particulate matter during pregnancy, small-for-gestational age births, and birthweight percentile for gestational age in a statewide birth cohort.” Environmental Health : A Global Access Science Source 21, no. 1 (January 2022): 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-021-00823-x.Full Text
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Bravo, Mercedes A., Man Chong Leong, Alan E. Gelfand, and Marie Lynn Miranda. “Assessing Disparity Using Measures of Racial and Educational Isolation.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 17 (September 2021): 9384. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179384.Full Text
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Kowal, Daniel R., Mercedes Bravo, Henry Leong, Alexander Bui, Robert J. Griffin, Katherine B. Ensor, and Marie Lynn Miranda. “Bayesian variable selection for understanding mixtures in environmental exposures.” Statistics in Medicine 40, no. 22 (September 2021): 4850–71. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.9099.Full Text
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Bravo, Mercedes A., and Marie Lynn Miranda. “Effects of accumulated environmental, social and host exposures on early childhood educational outcomes.” Environmental Research 198 (July 2021): 111241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111241.Full Text
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Erickson, Steven R., Mercedes Bravo, and Joshua Tootoo. “Geosocial Factors Associated With Adherence to Statin Medications.” The Annals of Pharmacotherapy 54, no. 12 (December 2020): 1194–1202. https://doi.org/10.1177/1060028020934879.Full Text
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Bravo, Mercedes A., Rebecca Anthopolos, and Marie Lynn Miranda. “Characteristics of the built environment and spatial patterning of type 2 diabetes in the urban core of Durham, North Carolina.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 73, no. 4 (April 2019): 303–10. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2018-211064.Full Text
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Bravo, Mercedes A., Bryan C. Batch, and Marie Lynn Miranda. “Residential Racial Isolation and Spatial Patterning of Hypertension in Durham, North Carolina.” Prev Chronic Dis 16 (March 28, 2019): E36. https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd16.180445.Full Text Link to Item
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Reames, Tony G., and Mercedes A. Bravo. “People, place and pollution: Investigating relationships between air quality perceptions, health concerns, exposure, and individual- and area-level characteristics.” Environment International 122 (January 2019): 244–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2018.11.013.Full Text
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Schurman, Shepherd H., Mercedes A. Bravo, Cynthia L. Innes, W Braxton Jackson, John A. McGrath, Marie Lynn Miranda, and Stavros Garantziotis. “Toll-like Receptor 4 Pathway Polymorphisms Interact with Pollution to Influence Asthma Diagnosis and Severity.” Scientific Reports 8, no. 1 (August 2018): 12713. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30865-0.Full Text
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Bravo, Mercedes A., Rebecca Anthopolos, Rachel T. Kimbro, and Marie Lynn Miranda. “Residential Racial Isolation and Spatial Patterning of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Durham, North Carolina.” American Journal of Epidemiology 187, no. 7 (July 2018): 1467–76. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwy026.Full Text
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Bravo, Mercedes A., Keita Ebisu, Francesca Dominici, Yun Wang, Roger D. Peng, and Michelle L. Bell. “Airborne Fine Particles and Risk of Hospital Admissions for Understudied Populations: Effects by Urbanicity and Short-Term Cumulative Exposures in 708 U.S. Counties.” Environmental Health Perspectives 125, no. 4 (April 2017): 594–601. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp257.Full Text
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Liu, Jia Coco, Loretta J. Mickley, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Francesca Dominici, Xu Yue, Keita Ebisu, Georgiana Brooke Anderson, Rafi F. A. Khan, Mercedes A. Bravo, and Michelle L. Bell. “Particulate Air Pollution from Wildfires in the Western US under Climate Change.” Climatic Change 138, no. 3 (October 2016): 655–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-016-1762-6.Full Text
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Bravo, Mercedes A., Rebecca Anthopolos, Michelle L. Bell, and Marie Lynn Miranda. “Racial isolation and exposure to airborne particulate matter and ozone in understudied US populations: Environmental justice applications of downscaled numerical model output.” Environment International 92–93 (July 2016): 247–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2016.04.008.Full Text
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Bravo, Mercedes A., Jiyoung Son, Clarice Umbelino de Freitas, Nelson Gouveia, and Michelle L. Bell. “Air pollution and mortality in São Paulo, Brazil: Effects of multiple pollutants and analysis of susceptible populations.” Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology 26, no. 2 (March 2016): 150–61. https://doi.org/10.1038/jes.2014.90.Full Text
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Son, Ji-Young, Nelson Gouveia, Mercedes A. Bravo, Clarice Umbelino de Freitas, and Michelle L. Bell. “The impact of temperature on mortality in a subtropical city: effects of cold, heat, and heat waves in São Paulo, Brazil.” International Journal of Biometeorology 60, no. 1 (January 2016): 113–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-015-1009-7.Full Text
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Liu, Jia C., Gavin Pereira, Sarah A. Uhl, Mercedes A. Bravo, and Michelle L. Bell. “A systematic review of the physical health impacts from non-occupational exposure to wildfire smoke.” Environmental Research 136 (January 2015): 120–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2014.10.015.Full Text
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Zhang, Yaqun, Min Li, Mercedes A. Bravo, Lan Jin, Amruta Nori-Sarma, Yanwen Xu, Donghong Guan, et al. “Air Quality in Lanzhou, a Major Industrial City in China: Characteristics of Air Pollution and Review of Existing Evidence from Air Pollution and Health Studies.” Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 225, no. 10 (October 2014): 2187. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-014-2187-3.Full Text
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Bravo, Mercedes A., Montserrat Fuentes, Yang Zhang, Michael J. Burr, and Michelle L. Bell. “Comparison of exposure estimation methods for air pollutants: ambient monitoring data and regional air quality simulation.” Environmental Research 116 (July 2012): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2012.04.008.Full Text
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Bravo, Mercedes A., and Michelle L. Bell. “Spatial heterogeneity of PM10 and O3 in São Paulo, Brazil, and implications for human health studies.” Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995) 61, no. 1 (January 2011): 69–77. https://doi.org/10.3155/1047-3289.61.1.69.Full Text
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Preprints
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Bravo, Mercedes A., Fang Fang, Dana B. Hancock, Eric O. Johnson, and Kathleen Mullan Harris. “Long-term air pollution exposure and markers of cardiometabolic health in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) Study.” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, December 8, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.07.22283112.Full Text
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
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