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Center for Global Health Faculty

Christopher D. Heaney

Assistant Professor

Christopher D. Heaney

Academic Degrees

  • PhD
  • MS

Departmental Affiliation

Departmental Address

W7033B, 615 North Wolfe Street Baltimore, MD 21205 USA

Contact Information

Phone:
443-287-4989
Fax:
410-955-0617

Research and Professional Experience

Environmental epidemiology

Occupational and environmental health

Infectious disease

Water and health

Global climate change

Community-based participatory research

Honors and Awards

W.K. Kellogg Health Scholar - Community Track, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Steve Wing International Academic Environmental Justice Award

Sigma Xi International Scientific Research Honor Society

Selected Publications

Heaney CD, Wade TJ, Dufour A. Health effects associated with recreational beach activities. Eds. Robert and Carol Friis. In press: Praeger Handbook on Environmental Health.

Wilson, OR, Heaney CD, Snipes M, Bumpass N, Cooper J, Wilson S.  Institutional racism: A teachable moment.  The authors reply to a "Letter to the Editor". J. Environ. Health.  2012;74(6):74-77.

Heaney CD, Sams E, Dufour A, Brenner K, Haugland R, Wymer L, Wing S, Marshall S, Serre M, Love D, Noble R, Wade TJ. Fecal indicators in sand, sand contact, and risk of enteric illness among beach-goers. Epidemiology. 2012;23(1):95–106.

Heaney CD, Wing S, Campbell RL, Caldwell D, Hopkins B, Richardson D, Yeatts K.  Relation between malodor, ambient hydrogen sulfide, and health in a community bordering a landfill.  Environ. Res. 2011;111(6):847-52.

Heaney CD, Wilson SM, Wilson OR, Cooper JR, Bumpass NG, Snipes MH.  Use of community-owned and -managed research to assess the safety of water and sewer services in marginalized and underserved environmental justice communities.  J. Environ. Health.  2011;74(1):8-17.

Wilson SM, Heaney CD, Wilson OR, Cooper JR.  Governance structures and lack of basic amenities: Can community engagement be effectively used to address environmental justice in underserved black communities.  Envir. Justice 2011;3(4):125-133. 

Lowman A, Wing S, Crump C, MacDonald P, Heaney CD, Aitken MD.  Public officials’ perspectives on tracking and investigating symptoms reported near sewage sludge land application sites.  J. Environ. Health.  2011;73(6):14-20.

Heaney CD, Sams E, Wing S, Marshall S, Brenner K, Dufour A, Wade TJ.  Contact with beach sand among beach-goers and risk of illness.  Amer. J. of Epidemiology.  2009;170(2):164-172.

Wilson SM, Heaney CD, Wilson OR, Cooper JR.  Built environment issues in unserved and underserved African-American neighborhoods in North Carolina.  Environ. Justice.  2008;1(2):63-72.

Wilson SM, Heaney CD, Wilson OR, Cooper JR.  Community driven environmental protection: Reducing the PAIN of the built environment in low-income African-American communities in North Carolina.  Social Justice in Context.  2008;3:41-57.

Heaney CD, Wilson SM, Wilson OR.  The West End Revitalization Association’s community-owned and managed research model: Development, implementation, and action.  Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action.  2007;1(4).

Heaney CD, Wilson SM, Wilson OR.  Beyond the manuscript: Interview transcript.  Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action.  2007;1(4).

Wilson SM, Wilson OR, Heaney CD, Cooper JR.  Use of EPA collaborative problem-solving model to obtain environmental justice in North Carolina.  Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action.  2007;1(4).

Aitken M, Crump C, Heaney CD, Lowman A, MacDonald P, Wing S.  Epidemiologic surveillance and investigation of symptoms of illness reported by neighbors of biosolids land application sites.  Water Environment Research Foundation Technical Reports.  Alexandria, VA. 2007.

Simmons III OD, Sobsey MD, Schaefer III FW, Francy DS, Nally RA, Heaney CD.  Evaluation of USEPA method 1622 for detection of Cryptosporidium oocysts in stream waters.  J. Amer. Water Works Assoc.  2001;93(1):78-87.

Simmons III OD, Sobsey MD, Heaney CD, Schaefer III FW, and Francy DS.  Concentration and detection of Cryptosporidium Oocysts in surface water samples by method 1622 using ultrafiltration and capsule filtration.  Appl. Environ. Microbiol.  2001;67(3):1123-1127.

Projects

  • Information Field development and validation of a salivary hepatitis E assay in Bangladesh

      
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