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.

Research Impact Dashboard

Publications

• Louisiana’s Community Air Monitoring Reliability Act Protects Industry while Restricting the Rights of Affected Communities , Environmental Justice (2026)
• A case study of long-term disease burden in a rural community near an open burn facility , Experimental Biology and Medicine (2025)
• A systematic review of environmentally persistent free radical (EPFR) formation, characteristics, and health effects: are there sufficient data for risk assessment? , Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part B (2025)
• Correction: Soil contamination by environmentally persistent free radicals and dioxins following train derailment in East Palestine, OH , Environmental Science Processes & Impacts (2025)
• CyanoHABs and CAPs: assessing community-based monitoring of PM _2.5 with regional sources of pollution in rural, northeastern North Carolina , Environmental Science Atmospheres (2025)
• High-dimensional Bayesian mediation analysis with adaptive Laplace priors , Statistics and Its Interface (2025)
• Persistent chemicals in particulate matter (PM) near a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility , Atmospheric Pollution Research (2025)
• Proximity to a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility alters human physiology: a community-driven pilot study , Experimental Biology and Medicine (2025)
• Soil contamination by environmentally persistent free radicals and dioxins following train derailment in East Palestine, OH , Environmental Science Processes & Impacts (2025)
• Spatial distribution of persistent components of particulate matter near a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility , Environmental Pollution (2025)