Ph.D. Student Profile

Abas  Shkembi, MS

Abas Shkembi, MS

  • Doctoral Pre-Candidate
  • Cognate: Environmental Health Sciences

Education

  • BS Statistics, University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2020)
  • MS Environmental Health Science, Subplan: Industrial Hygiene, University of Michigan (2023)

Research Interests & Projects

  • Environmental justice
  • Occupational and environmental epidemiology
  • Spatial epidemiology
  • Urban health

Selected Publications

Shkembi A, Le AB, Neitzel RL (2023). Associations between poorer mental health with work-related effort, reward, and overcommitment among a sample of formal US solid waste workers. Safety & Health at Work. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2023.01.004 

Shkembi A
, Smith LM, Neitzel RL (2022). Linking environmental injustices in Detroit, MI to institutional racial segregation through historical federal redlining. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-022-00512-y

Shkembi A, Smith LM, Bregg S, Neitzel RL (2022). Evaluating occupational noise exposure as a contributor to injury risk among miners. Ann Work Exp Health. 66(9): 1151-1161. https://doi.org/10.1093/annweh/wxac059

Roberts B, Shkembi A, Smith LM, Neitzel RL (2022). Beware the Grizzlyman: A comparison of job and industry-based noise exposure estimates using manual coding and the NIOSH NIOCCS System. J Occ & Env Hygiene. 19(7): 437-447. https://doi.org/10.1080/15459624.2022.2076860

Shkembi A and Neitzel R.L. (2022), Noise as a risk factor for COVID-19 transmission: Comment on Zhang: “Estimation of differential occupational risk of COVID-19 by comparing risk factors with case data by occupational group”. Am J Ind Med. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23349

Shkembi A
, Nambunmee K, Jindaphong S, Parra-Giordano D, Yohannessen K, Ruiz-Rudolph P, Neitzel RL, Arain A (2021). Work Task Association with Lead Urine and Blood Concentrations in Informal Electronic Waste Recyclers in Thailand and Chile. Inter J Env Res & Public Health. 18(20): 10580. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010580

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