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Kipruto Kirwa, PhD

Assistant Professor

Boston University School of Public Health

Environmental Health

PhD, Brown University

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Wesselink AK, Gause EL, Spangler KD, Hystad P, Kirwa K, Willis MD, Wellenius GA, Wise LA. Erratum: Exposure to Ambient Heat and Risk of Spontaneous Abortion: A Case-Crossover Study. Epidemiology. 2025 Jul 01; 36(4):e19.View Related Profiles.

Wesselink, Amelia
Wellenius, Gregory
Kirwa, Kipruto
Wise, Lauren
Willis, Mary

PMID: 40424394

Honda T, Henry T, Porucznik CA, Corlin L, Kirwa K, Alshawabkeh A, Cordero JF, Velez Vega CM, Rosario Pabon ZY, Meeker JD, Suh H. Associations among PM2.5, corticotropin releasing hormone, estriol, and progesterone in pregnant persons in Puerto Rico. Environ Res Commun. 2025 Mar 01; 7(3):031008.View Related Profiles.

Kirwa, Kipruto
Corlin, Laura

PMID: 40151202; PMCID: PMC11937643; DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/adc0f1;

Honda T, Henry TD, Corlin L, Kirwa K, Alshawabkeh A, Varshavsky JR, Kennedy W, Cordero JF, Velez Vega CM, Rosario Pabon ZY, Meeker JD, Suh H. Associations Between Ambient PM2.5 and Thyroid Hormones in Pregnant Persons in Puerto Rico. Toxics. 2025 Jan 15; 13(1).View Related Profiles.

Kirwa, Kipruto
Corlin, Laura

PMID: 39853056; PMCID: PMC11769198; DOI: 10.3390/toxics13010058;

Honda T, Henry T, Kirwa K, Corlin L, Alshawabkeh A, Varshavsky J, Kennedy W, Cordero JF, Velez Vega CM, Rosario Pabon ZY, Meeker JD, Suh HH. Associations Between Ambient PM2.5 and Thyroid Hormones in Pregnant Persons in Puerto Rico. In Press. Toxics. 2024.

Wesselink AK, Gause EL, Spangler KD, Hystad P, Kirwa K, Willis MD, Wellenius GA, Wise LA. Exposure to Ambient Heat and Risk of Spontaneous Abortion: A Case-Crossover Study. Epidemiology. 2024 Nov 01; 35(6):864-873.View Related Profiles.

Wesselink, Amelia
Wellenius, Gregory
Spangler, Keith
Kirwa, Kipruto
Wise, Lauren
Willis, Mary

PMID: 39058555

Kirwa K, Gassett AJ, Sack C, Paulin LM, Pirozzi CS, Barr RG, Woodruff PG, Han M, Wilgus ML, Barjaktarevic I, Peters S, Hansel NN, Kaufman JD. Estimating ambient air pollutant concentrations outside and inside homes in the Subpopulations and Intermediate outcomes in COPD air pollution (SPIROMICS air) cohort. Environ Res. 2024 Oct 15; 259:119512. PMID: 38964581; PMCID: PMC11365799; DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119512;

Reimer CJ, Willis MD, Wesselink AK, Hystad P, Campbell EJ, Hatch EE, Kirwa K, Gradus JL, Vinceti M, Wise LA, Jimenez MP. Exposure to residential greenness, perceived stress, and depressive symptoms in a North American preconception cohort. Environ Res. 2024 Nov 01; 260:119438.View Related Profiles.

Wesselink, Amelia
Hatch, Elizabeth
Gradus, Jaimie
Kirwa, Kipruto
Wise, Lauren
Pescador Jimenez, Marcia
Vinceti, Marco
Willis, Mary

PMID: 38901815

Wesselink AK, Kirwa K, Hystad P, Kaufman JD, Szpiro AA, Willis MD, Savitz DA, Levy JI, Rothman KJ, Mikkelsen EM, Laursen ASD, Hatch EE, Wise LA. Ambient air pollution and rate of spontaneous abortion. Environ Res. 2024 Apr 01; 246:118067.View Related Profiles.

Wesselink, Amelia
Savitz, David
Hatch, Elizabeth
Levy, Jonathan
Rothman, Kenneth
Kirwa, Kipruto
Wise, Lauren
Willis, Mary

PMID: 38157969; PMCID: PMC10947860; DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.118067;

Casella C, Kiles F, Urquhart C, Michaud DS, Kirwa K, Corlin L. Methylomic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic Correlates of Traffic-Related Air Pollution in the Context of Cardiorespiratory Health: A Systematic Review, Pathway Analysis, and Network Analysis. Toxics. 2023 Dec 12; 11(12).View Related Profiles.

Kirwa, Kipruto
Corlin, Laura

PMID: 38133415; PMCID: PMC10748071; DOI: 10.3390/toxics11121014;

Wesselink AK, Hystad P, Kirwa K, Kaufman JD, Willis MD, Wang TR, Szpiro AA, Levy JI, Savitz DA, Rothman KJ, Hatch EE, Wise LA. Air pollution and fecundability in a North American preconception cohort study. Environ Int. 2023 Nov; 181:108249.View Related Profiles.

Wesselink, Amelia
Savitz, David
Hatch, Elizabeth
Levy, Jonathan
Rothman, Kenneth
Kirwa, Kipruto
Wise, Lauren
Willis, Mary

PMID: 37862861; PMCID: PMC10841991; DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108249;

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Casella C, Kiles F, Urquhart C, Michaud DS, Kirwa K, Corlin L. Methylomic, proteomic, and metabolomic correlates of traffic-related air pollution: A systematic review, pathway analysis, and network analysis relating traffic-related air pollution to subclinical and clinical cardiorespiratory outcomes. medRxiv. 2023 Oct 02.View Related Profiles.

Kirwa, Kipruto
Corlin, Laura

PMID: 37873294; PMCID: PMC10592990; DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.30.23296386;

Willis MD, Wesselink AK, Hystad P, Pescador Jimenez M, Coleman CM, Kirwa K, Hatch EE, Wise LA. Associations between Residential Greenspace and Fecundability in a North American Preconception Cohort Study. Environ Health Perspect. 2023 Apr; 131(4):47012.View Related Profiles.

Wesselink, Amelia
Hatch, Elizabeth
Kirwa, Kipruto
Wise, Lauren
Pescador Jimenez, Marcia
Willis, Mary

PMID: 37098782; PMCID: PMC10132140; DOI: 10.1289/EHP10648;

Bi J, Zuidema C, Clausen D, Kirwa K, Young MT, Gassett AJ, Seto EYW, Sampson PD, Larson TV, Szpiro AA, Sheppard L, Kaufman JD. Within-City Variation in Ambient Carbon Monoxide Concentrations: Leveraging Low-Cost Monitors in a Spatiotemporal Modeling Framework. Environ Health Perspect. 2022 Sep; 130(9):97008. PMID: 36169978; PMCID: PMC9518741; DOI: 10.1289/EHP10889;

Willis MD, Orta OR, Ncube C, Wesselink AK, Ðoàn LN, Kirwa K, Boynton-Jarrett R, Hatch EE, Wise LA. Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Fertility Among Pregnancy Planners in the US. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Jun 01; 5(6):e2218738.View Related Profiles.

Wesselink, Amelia
Ncube, Collette
Hatch, Elizabeth
Kirwa, Kipruto
Wise, Lauren
Willis, Mary
Orta, Olivia
Boynton-Jarrett, Renee

PMID: 35771576; PMCID: PMC9247730; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.18738;

Wesselink AK, Wise LA, Hatch EE, Mikkelsen EM, Savitz DA, Kirwa K, Rothman KJ. A Prospective Cohort Study of Seasonal Variation in Spontaneous Abortion. Epidemiology. 2022 May 01; 33(3):441-448.View Related Profiles.

Wesselink, Amelia
Savitz, David
Hatch, Elizabeth
Rothman, Kenneth
Kirwa, Kipruto
Wise, Lauren

PMID: 35213511

Kirwa K, Feric Z, Manjourides J, Alshawabekeh A, Vega CMV, Cordero JF, Meeker JD, Suh HH. Preterm birth and PM2.5 in Puerto Rico: evidence from the PROTECT birth cohort. Environ Health. 2021 Jun 11; 20(1):69. PMID: 34116688; PMCID: PMC8196435; DOI: 10.1186/s12940-021-00748-5;

Kirwa K, Szpiro AA, Sheppard L, Sampson PD, Wang M, Keller JP, Young MT, Kim SY, Larson TV, Kaufman JD. Fine-Scale Air Pollution Models for Epidemiologic Research: Insights From Approaches Developed in the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air). Curr Environ Health Rep. 2021 Jun; 8(2):113-126. PMID: 34086258; PMCID: PMC8278964; DOI: 10.1007/s40572-021-00310-y;

Morton S, Honda T, Zimmerman E, Kirwa K, Huerta-Montanez G, Martens A, Hines M, Ondras M, Eum KD, Cordero JF, Alshawabekeh A, Suh HH. Non-nutritive suck and airborne metal exposures among Puerto Rican infants. Sci Total Environ. 2021 Oct 01; 789:148008. PMID: 34082200; PMCID: PMC8295239; DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148008;

Hazlehurst MF, Carroll KN, Loftus CT, Szpiro AA, Moore PE, Kaufman JD, Kirwa K, LeWinn KZ, Bush NR, Sathyanarayana S, Tylavsky FA, Barrett ES, Nguyen RHN, Karr CJ. Maternal exposure to PM2.5 during pregnancy and asthma risk in early childhood: consideration of phases of fetal lung development. Environ Epidemiol. 2021 Apr; 5(2). PMID: 33709049; PMCID: PMC7943175; DOI: 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000130;

Kirwa K, Eckert CM, Vedal S, Hajat A, Kaufman JD. Ambient air pollution and risk of respiratory infection among adults: evidence from the multiethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA). BMJ Open Respir Res. 2021 Mar; 8(1). PMID: 33664125; PMCID: PMC7934778; DOI: 10.1136/bmjresp-2020-000866;

Bengtson AM, Espinosa Dice AL, Kirwa K, Cornell M, Colvin CJ, Lurie MN. Patient Transfers and Their Impact on Gaps in Clinical Care: Differences by Gender in a Large Cohort of Adults Living with HIV on Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa. AIDS Behav. 2021 Oct; 25(10):3337-3346. PMID: 33609203; PMCID: PMC8840810; DOI: 10.1007/s10461-021-03191-2;

Zusman M, Gassett AJ, Kirwa K, Barr RG, Cooper CB, Han MK, Kanner RE, Koehler K, Ortega VE, Paine Rd R, Paulin L, Pirozzi C, Rule A, Hansel NN, Kaufman JD. Modeling residential indoor concentrations of PM2.5 , NO2 , NOx , and secondhand smoke in the Subpopulations and Intermediate Outcome Measures in COPD (SPIROMICS) Air study. Indoor Air. 2021 May; 31(3):702-716. PMID: 33037695; PMCID: PMC8202242; DOI: 10.1111/ina.12760;

Wesselink AK, Kirwa K, Hatch EE, Hystad P, Szpiro AA, Kaufman JD, Levy JI, Mikkelsen EM, Quraishi SM, Rothman KJ, Wise LA. Residential proximity to major roads and fecundability in a preconception cohort. Environ Epidemiol. 2020 Dec; 4(6):e112.View Related Profiles.

Wesselink, Amelia
Hatch, Elizabeth
Levy, Jonathan
Rothman, Kenneth
Kirwa, Kipruto
Wise, Lauren

PMID: 33778352; PMCID: PMC7941774; DOI: 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000112;

Bengtson AM, Colvin C, Kirwa K, Cornell M, Lurie MN. Estimating retention in HIV care accounting for clinic transfers using electronic medical records: evidence from a large antiretroviral treatment programme in the Western Cape, South Africa. Trop Med Int Health. 2020 Aug; 25(8):936-943. PMID: 32406961; PMCID: PMC8841816; DOI: 10.1111/tmi.13412;

Paulin LM, Gassett AJ, Alexis NE, Kirwa K, Kanner RE, Peters S, Krishnan JA, Paine R, Dransfield M, Woodruff PG, Cooper CB, Barr RG, Comellas AP, Pirozzi CS, Han M, Hoffman EA, Martinez FJ, Woo H, Peng RD, Fawzy A, Putcha N, Breysse PN, Kaufman JD, Hansel NN. Association of Long-term Ambient Ozone Exposure With Respiratory Morbidity in Smokers. JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Jan 01; 180(1):106-115. PMID: 31816012; PMCID: PMC6902160; DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.5498;

Lurie MN, Kirwa K, Callaway J, Cornell M, Boulle A, Bengtson AM, Smith M, Leon N, Colvin C. Quantifying the HIV treatment cascade in a South African health sub-district by gender: retrospective cohort study. Trop Med Int Health. 2020 Feb; 25(2):186-192. PMID: 31698524; PMCID: PMC7007356; DOI: 10.1111/tmi.13334;

Wang M, Aaron CP, Madrigano J, Hoffman EA, Angelini E, Yang J, Laine A, Vetterli TM, Kinney PL, Sampson PD, Sheppard LE, Szpiro AA, Adar SD, Kirwa K, Smith B, Lederer DJ, Diez-Roux AV, Vedal S, Kaufman JD, Barr RG. Association Between Long-term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Change in Quantitatively Assessed Emphysema and Lung Function. JAMA. 2019 08 13; 322(6):546-556.View Related Profiles.

Kirwa, Kipruto
Kinney, Patrick

PMID: 31408135; PMCID: PMC6692674; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.10255;

Kirwa K, McConnell-Rios R, Manjourides J, Cordero J, Alshawabekeh A, Suh HH. Low birth weight and PM2.5 in Puerto Rico. Environ Epidemiol. 2019 Aug; 3(4). PMID: 32095739; PMCID: PMC7039618; DOI: 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000058;

Bloomfield GS, Kirwa K, Agarwal A, Eliot MN, Alenezi F, Carter EJ, Foster MC, Kimaiyo S, Lumsden R, Menya D, Mitter SS, Velazquez EJ, Vedanthan R, Wellenius GA. Effects of a Cookstove Intervention on Cardiac Structure, Cardiac Function, and Blood Pressure in Western Kenya. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2019 03; 32(3):427-430.View Related Profiles.

Wellenius, Gregory
Kirwa, Kipruto

PMID: 30665729; DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2018.11.013;

Weinberger KR, Kirwa K, Eliot MN, Gold J, Suh HH, Wellenius GA. Projected Changes in Temperature-related Morbidity and Mortality in Southern New England. Epidemiology. 2018 07; 29(4):473-481.View Related Profiles.

Wellenius, Gregory
Kirwa, Kipruto

PMID: 29561281; PMCID: PMC5980746; DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000825;

Agarwal A, Kirwa K, Eliot MN, Alenezi F, Menya D, Mitter SS, Velazquez EJ, Vedanthan R, Wellenius GA, Bloomfield GS. Household Air Pollution Is Associated with Altered Cardiac Function among Women in Kenya. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2018 04 01; 197(7):958-961.View Related Profiles.

Wellenius, Gregory
Kirwa, Kipruto

PMID: 28925740; PMCID: PMC6020413; DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201704-0832LE;

Shangani S, Operario D, Genberg B, Kirwa K, Midoun M, Atwoli L, Ayuku D, Galárraga O, Braitstein P. Unconditional government cash transfers in support of orphaned and vulnerable adolescents in western Kenya: Is there an association with psychological wellbeing? PLoS One. 2017; 12(5):e0178076.View Related Profiles.

Kirwa, Kipruto
Shangani, Sylvia

PMID: 28562627; PMCID: PMC5451046; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178076;

Shangani S, Escudero D, Kirwa K, Harrison A, Marshall B, Operario D. Effectiveness of peer-led interventions to increase HIV testing among men who have sex with men: a systematic review and meta-analysis. AIDS Care. 2017 08; 29(8):1003-1013.View Related Profiles.

Kirwa, Kipruto
Shangani, Sylvia

PMID: 28150501; PMCID: PMC5570465; DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2017.1282105;

Oyieng'o DO, Kirwa K, Tong I, Martin S, Antonio Rojas-Suarez J, Bourjeily G. Restless Legs Symptoms and Pregnancy and Neonatal Outcomes. Clin Ther. 2016 Feb; 38(2):256-64. PMID: 26740290

Kirwa K, Eliot MN, Wang Y, Adams MA, Morgan CG, Kerr J, Norman GJ, Eaton CB, Allison MA, Wellenius GA. Residential proximity to major roadways and prevalent hypertension among postmenopausal women: results from the Women's Health Initiative San Diego Cohort. J Am Heart Assoc. 2014 Oct 01; 3(5):e000727.View Related Profiles.

Wellenius, Gregory
Kirwa, Kipruto

PMID: 25274494; PMCID: PMC4323802; DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.113.000727;

Lurie MN, Kirwa K, Daniels J, Berteler M, Kalichman SC, Mathews C. High burden of STIs among HIV-infected adults prior to initiation of ART in South Africa: a retrospective cohort study. Sex Transm Infect. 2014 Dec; 90(8):615-9. PMID: 24837992

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 36 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2021

Bar chart showing 36 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2021

Year	Publications
2014	2
2015	1
2017	2
2018	2
2019	4
2020	4
2021	6
2022	3
2023	5
2024	4
2025	3

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