M. Patricia Fabian, ScD
Associate Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Dept of Environmental Health

ScD, Harvard School of Public Health
MS, University of Colorado Boulder

Pronouns: she/her/hers



M. Patricia Fabian is an Associate Professor of the Department of Environmental Health, Associate Director with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability and affiliated with the Hariri Institute for Computing and the Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health. She conducts research and teaching focused on health and environmental health disparities in the built environment, and built the first systems science model linking housing, indoor air quality, energy use, and health. She is the BU site PI for the Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast and co-directs a study of heat exposure and vulnerability in the cities of Chelsea and East Boston. Her research teams are highly interdisciplinary and projects leverage big data at many scales, including electronic health records, remote sensing, and geospatial databases of social and environmental determinants of health (SDOH). Her research group has published over 100 articles in the peer-reviewed literature. Dr. Fabian was a Steering Committee member for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs on the 80x50 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Study.

Current research interests: quantifying the energy-indoor air quality-health tradeoffs of decarbonization initiatives in current and future climate through systems science modeling, evaluating energy-health tradeoffs of interventions to reduce Covid-19 transmission in buildings, and supporting the design of heat adaptation and mitigation interventions at the individual, household, community, and city levels through community engaged research.


Supporting Regional Implementation of Integrated Climate Resilience: Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN) Phase III
09/01/2021 - 08/31/2026 (Subcontract PI)
Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York Dept of Comm NOAA


Examining Home Environments and Asthma Interventions in the Tennessee Valley
01/01/2022 - 12/31/2024 (Subcontract PI)
Three3, Inc. Dept of HUD


Asthma Simulation Tool for Housing, Medication and Social Adversity (ASTHMA)
08/01/2017 - 06/30/2023 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
5R01ES027816-05

To support research on extreme heat impacts and interventions in Chelsea and East Boston
12/20/2019 - 06/20/2022 (PI)
Barr Foundation, Inc.




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  1. Tieskens KF, Smith IA, Jimenez RB, Hutyra LR, Fabian MP. Mapping the gaps between cooling benefits of urban greenspace and population heat vulnerability. Sci Total Environ. 2022 Nov 01; 845:157283.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35820520
     
  2. Bozigar M, Connolly CL, Legler A, Adams WG, Milando CW, Reynolds DB, Carnes F, Jimenez RB, Peer K, Vermeer K, Levy JI, Fabian MP. In-home environmental exposures predicted from geospatial characteristics of the built environment and electronic health records of children with asthma. Ann Epidemiol. 2022 Sep; 73:38-47.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35779709
     
  3. Milando CW, Carnes F, Vermeer K, Levy JI, Fabian MP. Sensitivity of modeled residential fine particulate matter exposure to select building and source characteristics: A case study using public data in Boston, MA. Sci Total Environ. 2022 Sep 20; 840:156625.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35691344; PMCID: PMC9272360; DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156625;
     
  4. Connolly CL, Milando CW, Tieskens KF, Ashmore J, Carvalho L, Levy JI, Fabian MP. Impact of meteorology on indoor air quality, energy use, and health in a typical mid-rise multi-family home in the eastern United States. Indoor Air. 2022 Jun; 32(6):e13065.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35762242
     
  5. Jimenez RB, Lane KJ, Hutyra LR, Fabian MP. Spatial resolution of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and greenness exposure misclassification in an urban cohort. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2022 03; 32(2):213-222.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35094014
     
  6. Chu MT, Ettinger de Cuba S, Fabian MP, Lane KJ, James-Todd T, Williams DR, Coull BA, Carnes F, Massaro M, Levy JI, Laden F, Sandel M, Adamkiewicz G, Zanobetti A. The immigrant birthweight paradox in an urban cohort: Role of immigrant enclaves and ambient air pollution. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2022 Jul; 32(4):571-582.View Related Profiles. PMID: 34980894; PMCID: PMC9250941; DOI: 10.1038/s41370-021-00403-8;
     
  7. McIntyre AM, Scammell MK, Botana Martinez MP, Heidari L, Negassa A, Bongiovanni R, Fabian MP. Facilitators and barriers for keeping cool in an urban heat island: perspectives from residents of an environmental justice community. Environmental Justice. 2022. View Publication
  8. Black-Ingersoll, F.; de Lange, J.; Heidari, L.; Negassa, A.; Botana, P.; Fabian, M.P.; Scammell, M.K. . 2022, 13, 1103. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13071103 . A literature review of cooling center, misting station, cool pavement, and cool roof intervention evaluations. Atmosphere. 2022; 7(13):1103. View Publication
  9. Vanoli J, Coull BA, Ettinger de Cuba S, Fabian PM, Carnes F, Massaro MA, Poblacion A, Bellocco R, Kloog I, Schwartz J, Laden F, Zanobetti A. Postnatal exposure to PM2.5 and weight trajectories in early childhood. Environ Epidemiol. 2022 Feb; 6(1):e181. PMID: 35169661; PMCID: PMC8835545; DOI: 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000181;
     
  10. Spangler KR, Patil P, Peng X, Levy JI, Lane KJ, Tieskens KF, Carnes F, Klevens RM, Erdman EA, Troppy TS, Fabian MP, Leibler JH. Community predictors of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Massachusetts: Evaluating changes over time using geospatially refined data. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2022 03; 16(2):213-221.View Related Profiles. PMID: 34761531; PMCID: PMC8652977; DOI: 10.1111/irv.12926;
     
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AARP 1/24/2022

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BU Today 10/27/2021

Circumventing Covid-19 with better ventilation and air quality

STAT 7/20/2021

What to Know Before Making Your Own DIY Face Mask

Popular Mechanics 4/28/2020

BU Public Health Researchers Aid Chelsea, Epicenter of State’s COVID-19 Outbreak

BU Today 4/28/2020

In Boston, COVID-19 and Climate Change Are Hitting the Same Communities the Hardest

BU Today 4/22/2020

Coronavirus Thank-you Notes from the BU Community

BU Today 4/22/2020

Fighting for Breath in Near-Highway Neighborhoods

US News 4/10/2018
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indoor air quality
climate & health
environmental health disparities
sustainability
built environment
geographical information systems (GIS)
systems science
respiratory infectious disease transmission
exposure assessment
air pollution
aerobiology
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