Dr. Micaela E. Martinez is a Chicana scientist, artist, and justice advocate. She is the inaugural Environmental Justice Officer at the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). Dr. Martinez earned her Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolution in 2015 at the University of Michigan, and did her postdoctoral training at Princeton University. Before joining the CEC, she served as the Director of Environmental Health at WE ACT for Environmental Justice. She also served as an Assistant Professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, followed by Emory University, in the Department of Biology. From 2017-2023, Dr. Martinez was supported by the prestigious NIH Director’s Early Independence Award. Over the past decade, her research has focused on environmental justice, infectious disease ecology, climate change, maternal and infant health, social justice, and environmental impacts on health (including biological rhythms). *Dr. Martinez is a member of MIDAS in her personal capacity and not in the capacity of the Environmental Justice Officer at the CEC.
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Russian Federation
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
People: Micaela Martinez
2021 – 2023 Continue Reading Hacking Epidemics: Unlocking The Drivers of Transmission Seasonality to Battle Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
National Science Foundation, Biological Sciences (BIO)
People: Micaela Martinez
2020 – 2021 Continue Reading RAPID: Transmission and Immunology of COVID-19 in the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Phase: Real-time Assessment of Social Distancing & Protective Immunity
Vilfranc CL, Houghton LC, Tsui F, Barrett E, Llanos AAM, Pennell K, Walker DAH, Martinez M, Morton B, Shepard P, Terry MB, McDonald JA. (2024). The hair tales of women of color in Northern Manhattan: a qualitative analysis. Frontiers in reproductive health, (6)
Bakker KM, Eisenberg MC, Woods RJ, Martinez ME. (2022). Identifying optimal vaccination scenarios to reduce varicella zoster virus transmission and reactivation. BMC medicine, 20(1)
Nyquist SK, Gao P, Haining TKJ, Retchin MR, Golan Y, Drake RS, Kolb K, Mead BE, Ahituv N, Martinez ME, Shalek AK, Berger B, Goods BA. (2022). Cellular and transcriptional diversity over the course of human lactation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(15)
Bakker KM, Eisenberg MC, Woods R, Martinez ME. (2021). Exploring the seasonal drivers of varicella zoster transmission and reactivation. American journal of epidemiology
Shearston JA, Martinez ME, Nunez Y, Hilpert M. (2021). Social-distancing fatigue: Evidence from real-time crowd-sourced traffic data. The Science of the total environment, (792)
Hess JJ, Ranadive N, Boyer C, Aleksandrowicz L, Anenberg SC, Aunan K, Belesova K, Bell ML, Bickersteth S, Bowen K, Burden M, Campbell-Lendrum D, Carlton E, Cissé G, Cohen F, Dai H, Dangour AD, Dasgupta P, Frumkin H, Gong P, Gould RJ, Haines A, Hales S, Hamilton I, Hasegawa T, Hashizume M, Honda Y, Horton DE, Karambelas A, Kim H, Kim SE, Kinney PL, Kone I, Knowlton K, Lelieveld J, Limaye VS, Liu Q, Madaniyazi L, Martinez ME, Mauzerall DL, Milner J, Neville T, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Pachauri S, Perera F, Pineo H, Remais JV, Saari RK, Sampedro J, Scheelbeek P, Schwartz J, Shindell D, Shyamsundar P, Taylor TJ, Tonne C, Van Vuuren D, Wang C, Watts N, West JJ, Wilkinson P, Wood SA, Woodcock J, Woodward A, Xie Y, Zhang Y, Ebi KL. (2020). Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions. Environmental health perspectives, 128(11)
Sy KTL, Martinez ME, Rader B, White LF. (2020). Socioeconomic Disparities in Subway Use and COVID-19 Outcomes in New York City. American journal of epidemiology
Leung JM, Martinez ME. (2020). Circadian Rhythms in Environmental Health Sciences. Current environmental health reports
Hall KS, Samari G, Garbers S, Casey SE, Diallo DD, Orcutt M, Moresky RT, Martinez ME, McGovern T. (2020). Centring sexual and reproductive health and justice in the global COVID-19 response. Lancet, 395(10231)
Rund SSC, Moise IK, Beier JC, Martinez ME. (2019). Rescuing Troves of Hidden Ecological Data to Tackle Emerging Mosquito-Borne Diseases. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 35(1)
Martinez ME. (2018). The calendar of epidemics: Seasonal cycles of infectious diseases. PLoS pathogens, 14(11)
Tarquini R, Carbone A, Martinez M, Mazzoccoli G. (2019). Daylight saving time and circadian rhythms in the neuro-endocrine-immune system: impact on cardiovascular health. Internal and emergency medicine, 14(1)
Winter AK, Martinez ME, Cutts FT, Moss WJ, Ferrari MJ, McKee A, Lessler J, Hayford K, Wallinga J, Metcalf CJE. (2018). Benefits and Challenges in Using Seroprevalence Data to Inform Models for Measles and Rubella Elimination. The Journal of infectious diseases, 218(3)
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