Jennifer Richmond-Bryant

Bio

Jennifer Richmond-Bryant, PhD, joined the Forestry and Environmental Resources department
at North Carolina State University as an Associate Professor of the Practice in 2019 after
holding previous positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and City University of
New York. Her research specializes in human exposure to air pollution with a focus on
marginalized communities. She is a project director with the Louisiana State University
Superfund Research Program, where she has conducted a field campaign to assess air
pollution and health impacts of emissions from an open burn/open detonation (OBOD)
hazardous waste thermal treatment facility in Colfax, LA. She is PI of a time-sensitive grant to
explore impacts to air pollution exposure due to operational changes at the Colfax site. Dr.
Richmond-Bryant also leads a U.S. Department of Agriculture National Needs Fellowship
focused on providing doctoral students with a combination of the natural, physical, and social
sciences needed for conducting research focused on environmental justice and is co-lead of the
Environmental Health Disparities Research Interest Group within the Center for Human Health
and the Environment, an Environmental Health Sciences Core Center that is a collaboration
between North Carolina State University, North Carolina Central University, and East Carolina
University.

Publications

• Calibration of Low-Cost Particulate Matter Sensors PurpleAir: Model Development for Air Quality under High Relative Humidity Conditions , (2024)
• Empowering Citizens Through the Development and Deployment of a Community-Based Environmental Health Reporting Tool , ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (2024)
• Invited Perspective: Increasing Disparities in Air Pollution Health Burdens in the United States - A Concerning Trend for PM_2.5 and a Path Forward , ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES (2024)
• Supplementary material to "Calibration of Low-Cost Particulate Matter Sensors PurpleAir: Model Development for Air Quality under High Relative Humidity Conditions" , (2024)
• A Community-Engaged Oral History Study as a Tool for Understanding Environmental Justice Aspects of Human Exposures to Hazardous Waste Thermal Treatment Emissions in Colfax, LA , ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (2023)
• Associations of COVID-19 Hospitalizations, ICU Admissions, and Mortality with Black and White Race and Their Mediation by Air Pollution and Other Risk Factors in the Louisiana Industrial Corridor, March 2020–August 2021 , International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2023)
• Inclusive excellence through digital learning: an undergraduate research experience to pilot cross-institutional collaboration between a historically black university and a predominantly white institution , Intercultural Education (2023)
• Oral histories document community mobilisation to participate in decision-making regarding a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility , LOCAL ENVIRONMENT (2023)
• Spatial associations of long-term exposure to diesel particulate matter with seasonal and annual mortality due to COVID-19 in the contiguous United States , BMC Public Health (2023)
• A community-integrated geographic information system study of air pollution exposure impacts in Colfax, LA , LOCAL ENVIRONMENT (2022)