Publications

• 2025
• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2016

2025

• Meltzer GY, Anderson GB, Xie X, Casey JA, Schwartz J, Bell ML, Ornelas Van Horne Y, Fox J, Kioumourtzoglou MA, Parks RM. (2025). Disruption to test scores after hurricanes in the United States Environmental Research: Health


• Shea B, Meltzer GY, Steiger BB, Parks RM, Do V, McBrien H, Flores N, Gordon M, Blake EM, JA Casey. (2025). Co-occurring Climate Events and Environmental Justice in California, 2018-2019 Environmental Research: Health


• Lynch VD, Sullivan JA, Flores AB, Xie X, Aggarwal S, Nethery RC, Kioumourtzoglou MA, Nigra AE, Parks RM. (2025). Large floods drive changes in cause-specific mortality in the United States Nature Medicine

2024

• Do V, Parks RM, Casey JA, Goin DE, Kioumourtzoglou MA. (2024). Use, limitations, and future directions of mixtures approaches to understand the health impacts of weather- and climate change-related exposures, an under-studied aspect of the exposome Exposome


• Ziska LH, Parks RM. (2024). Recent and projected changes in global climate may increase nicotine absorption and the risk of green tobacco sickness Communications Medicine


• Cohen G, Rowland ST, Benavides J, Lindert J, Kioumourtzoglou MA, Parks RM. (2024). Daily temperature variability and mental health-related hospital visits in New York State Environmental Research


• Matte T, Lane K, Tipaldo J, Barnes J, Knowlton K, Torem E, Anand G, Yoon L, Marcotullio P, Balk D, Constible J, Elszasz H, Ito K, Jessel S, Limaye V, Parks RM, Rutigliano M, Sorenson C, Yuan A. (2024). Climate Change and New York City’s Health Risk New York City Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment


• Prada D, Kupsco A, Baccarelli AA, Parks RM. (2024). Climate change and health: understanding mechanisms will inform mitigation and prevention strategies Nature Medicine


• van Daalen KR, Wyma N, Schauer-Berg J, Blom IM, Mattijsen J, Othman R, Eissa MM, Parks RM, Wyns A, Aboushady ATA, Hassan M, Ezzine T, Khan S, Zayed MAE, Neggazi S, Alqodmani L, Lowe R. (2024). The global health community at international climate change negotiations BMJ Global Health


• Singh A, Ezzine T, Guinto RR, Gepp S, Parks RM, Thondoo M, Patil P, van Daalen KR. (2024). Reflections from COP28: Resisting healthwashing in climate change negotiations PLOS Global Public Health


• Tuholske C, Lynch VD, Spriggs R, Ahn Y, Raymond C, Nigra AE, Parks RM. (2024). Hazardous heat exposure among incarcerated people in the United States Nature Sustainability


• Lynch VD, Parks RM. (2024). Incarcerated people in the United States face deadly and growing heat exposure risk Nature Sustainability (accompanying Research Briefing to paper above)


• Ahn Y, Tuholske C, Parks RM. (2024). Comparing Approximated Heat Stress Measures Across the United States GeoHealth

2023

• USGCRP, 2023: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Crimmins, A.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock, Eds. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA. (Technical Contributor to Chapter 14: Air Quality)


• Parks RM, Rowland ST, Do V, Boehme AK, Dominici F, Hart CL, Kioumourtzoglou MA. (2023). The association between temperature and alcohol- and substance-related disorder hospital visits in New York State Communications Medicine


• Parks RM, Kontis V, Anderson GB, Baldwin JW, Danaei G, Toumi R, Dominici F, Ezzati M, Kioumourtzoglou MA. (2023). Short-term excess mortality following tropical cyclones in the United States Science Advances


• Nunez Y, Balalian A, Parks RM, He M, Hansen J, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Ketzel M, Khan J, Brandt J, Vermeulen R, Peters S, Goldsmith J, Re DB, Weisskopf MG, Kioumourtzoglou MA. (2023). Exploring Relevant Time Windows in the Association Between PM2.5 Exposure and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Case-Control Study in Denmark, American Journal of Epidemiology


• Casey JA, Parks RM, Bruckner TA, Unwin HJT, Gemmill A, Catalano Ralph (2023). Excess Injury Mortality in Washington State During the 2021 Heat Wave, American Journal of Public Health


• Flaxman S, Whittaker C, Semenova E, Rashid T, Parks RM, Blenkinsop A, Unwin HJT, Mishra S, Bhatt S, Gurdasani D, Ratmann O (2023). Assessment of COVID-19 as the Underlying Cause of Death Among Children and Young People Aged 0 to 19 Years in the US, JAMA Network Open

2022

• Parks RM, Guinto RR (2022). Invited Perspective: Uncovering the Hidden Burden of Tropical Cyclones on Public Health Locally and Worldwide, Environmental Health Perspectives


• Kepp KP, Bjork JP, Kontis V, Parks RM, Baek KT, Lallukka T (2022). Estimates of excess mortality for the five Nordic countries during the Covid-19 pandemic 2020-2021, International Journal of Epidemiology


• Parks RM, Nunez Y, Balalian A, Gibson EA, Hansen J, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Ketzel M, Khan J, Brandt J, Vermeulen R, Peters S, Goldsmith J, Re DB, Weisskopf MG, Kioumourtzoglou MA (2022). Long-term traffic-related air pollutant exposure and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diagnosis in Denmark: A Bayesian hierarchical analysis, Epidemiology


• Elser H, Rowland ST, Tartof SY, Parks RM, Bruxvoort K, Morello-Frosch R, Robinson SC, Pressman AR, Wei RX, Casey JA (2022). Ambient temperature and risk of urinary tract infection in California: A time-stratified case-crossover study using electronic health records, Environment International


• WHO (2022). Mental health and Climate Change: Policy Brief, WHO


• Parks RM, Benavides J, Anderson GB, Nethery RC, Navas-Acien A, Dominici F, Ezzati M, Kioumourtzoglou MA (2022). Association of Tropical Cyclones With County-Level Mortality in the US (with editorial), JAMA


• Kontis V, Bennett JE, Parks RM, Rashid T, Pearson-Stuttard J, Asaria P, Zhou B, Guillot M, Mathers CD, Khang Y, McKee M, Ezzati M (2021). Lessons learned and lessons missed: Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 40 industrialised countries prior to mass vaccination, Wellcome Open Research

2021

• Nethery RC, Katz-Christy N, Kioumourtzoglou MA, Parks RM, Schumacher A, Anderson GB (2021). Integrated causal-predictive machine learning models for tropical cyclone epidemiology, Biostatistics


• Bock J, Srivastava P, Jessel S, Klopp JM, Parks RM (2021). Heat vulnerability in New York City during COVID-19: A review of policies, tools and pilot survey results (with NIH NIEHS Disaster Research Response (DR2) Resources Portal resources page), Journal of Extreme Events


• Kruczkiewicz A, Klopp J, Fisher J, Mason S, McClain S, Sheekh NM, Moss R, Parks RM, Braneon C (2021). Compound risks and complex emergencies require new approaches to preparedness, PNAS


• Rowland ST, Parks RM, Boehme AK, Goldsmith J, Rush J, Just AC, Kioumourtzoglou MA (2021). The Association Between Ambient Temperature Variability and Myocardial Infarction in a New York-State-Based Case-Crossover Study: an Examination of Different Variability Metrics, Environmental Research


• Elser H, Parks RM, Moghavem N, Kiang MV, Bozinov N, Henderson VW, Rehkopf DH, Casey JA (2021). Anomalously warm weather and acute care visits in patients with multiple sclerosis: A retrospective study of privately insured individuals in the US, PLoS Medicine


• Parks RM, Anderson GB, Nethery RC, Navas-Acien A, Dominici F, Kioumourtzoglou MA (2021). Tropical cyclone exposure is associated with increased hospitalization rates in older adults, Nature Communications


• deSouza P, Braun D, Parks RM, Schwartz J, Dominici F, Kioumourtzoglou MA (2021). Nationwide Study of Short-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Cardiovascular Hospitalizations among Medicaid Enrollees, Epidemiology

2020

• Kontis V, Bennett JE, Rashid T, Parks RM, Pearson-Stuttard J, Guillot M, Asaria P, Zhou B, Battaglini M, Corsetti G, McKee M, Di Cesare M, Mathers C, Ezzati M (2020). Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries, Nature Medicine


• Parks RM, Thalheimer L (2020). The hidden burden of pandemics, climate change and migration on mental health, UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) thematic series on health


• Kontis V, Bennett JE, Parks RM, Rashid T, Pearson-Stuttard J, Asaria P, Guillot M, Blangiardo M, Ezzati M (2020). Age and sex-specific total mortality impacts of the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic in England and Wales: Application of a Bayesian model ensemble to mortality statistics, MedrXiv (preprint)


• Parks RM, McLaren M, Rivett U, Thomson M (2020). Vital signs: health security in South Africa. Chapter 5: climate, drought, food and health, Brenthurst Foundation, Oppenheimer & Sons


• Parks RM, Bennett JE, Tamura-Wicks H, Kontis V, Toumi R, Ezzati M (2020). Anomalously warm temperatures are associated with increased injury deaths, Nature Medicine

2019

• Bennett JE, Tamura-Wicks H, Parks RM, Burnett RT, Pope CA III, Bechle MJ, Marshall JD, Danaei G, Ezzati M (2019). National and county life expectancy loss associated with particulate matter pollution in the USA: a spatiotemporal analysis, PLoS Medicine


• Parks RM, McLaren M, Toumi R, Rivett U (2019). Experiences and lessons in managing water from Cape Town, Grantham Briefing Papers

2018

• Parks RM, Bennett JE, Foreman KJ, Toumi R, Ezzati M (2018). National and regional seasonal dynamics of all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the USA from 1980 to 2016, eLife

2016

• Parks RM (2016). Weather, climate and health, Weather

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