Nina Brooks
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Nina Brooks, PhD

Assistant Professor, Global Health - Boston University School of Public Health

(617) 638-5234
nrbrooks@bu.edu
Crosstown Center
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Biography

Nina Brooks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Brooks' research interests are in understanding the environmental and social determinants of health and generating evidence to inform climate and health policy, primarily in the Global South. Her current research is focused on implementing an energy efficiency intervention to reduce emissions and air pollution from the brick sector in Bangladesh and examines the relationships between heat stress, land-cover change, and reproductive health outcomes. Her previous work has studied the environmental and health consequences of brick manufacturing in Bangladesh, how variability in agricultural growing season quality affects fertility preferences in sub-Saharan Africa, and how abortion policies impact women's health and economic outcomes. Her research employs a range of disciplinary approaches and tools from economics, demography, data science, geography, and epidemiology.

Education

  • Stanford University, PhD Field of Study: Environmental Health
  • Stanford University, MA Field of Study: Economics
  • Duke University, MPP Field of Study: Public Policy
  • University of California, Berkeley, BA Field of Study: Political Economy

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Publications

  • Published on 8/31/2024

    Nina Brooks, Debashish Biswas, Sameer Maithel, Sonal Kumar, Mohammad Rofi Uddin, Shoeb Ahmed, Moogdho Mahzab, Grant Miller, Mahbubur Rahman, Stephen P. Luby. Building blocks of change: The energy, health, and climate co-benefits of more efficient brickmaking in Bangladesh. Energy Research & Social Science. 2024; 117(103738).

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  • Published on 4/19/2024

    Eick SM, Eatman JA, Chandler M, Brooks NR. Reproductive and Social Policies, Sociopolitical Stress, and Implications for Maternal and Child Health Equity. Curr Environ Health Rep. 2024 Jun; 11(2):279-287. PMID: 38639910.

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  • Published on 12/6/2023

    Brooks N, Gunther M, Bendavid E, Boyle EH, Grace K, Miller G. U.S. global health aid policy and family planning in sub-Saharan Africa. Sci Adv. 2023 Dec 08; 9(49):eadk2684. PMID: 38055817.

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  • Published on 10/1/2023

    Nina Brooks, Debashish Biswas, Raduan Hossin, Alexander Yu, Shampa Saha, Senjuti Saha, Samir K. Saha, Stephen P. Luby. Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh. World Development. 2023; 170:106318.

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  • Published on 5/1/2023

    Brooks N, Grace K, Kristiansen D, Shukla S, Brown ME. Investigating the relationship between growing season quality and childbearing goals. Glob Environ Change. 2023 May; 80:102677. PMID: 37250477.

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  • Published on 4/27/2021

    Lee J, Brooks NR, Tajwar F, Burke M, Ermon S, Lobell DB, Biswas D, Luby SP. Scalable deep learning to identify brick kilns and aid regulatory capacity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Apr 27; 118(17). PMID: 33888583.

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  • Published on 6/27/2019

    Brooks N, Bendavid E, Miller G. USA aid policy and induced abortion in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of the Mexico City Policy. Lancet Glob Health. 2019 Aug; 7(8):e1046-e1053. PMID: 31257094.

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  • Published on 5/22/2019

    Pattanayak SK, Jeuland M, Lewis JJ, Usmani F, Brooks N, Bhojvaid V, Kar A, Lipinski L, Morrison L, Patange O, Ramanathan N, Rehman IH, Thadani R, Vora M, Ramanathan V. Experimental evidence on promotion of electric and improved biomass cookstoves. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Jul 02; 116(27):13282-13287. PMID: 31118284.

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  • Published on 1/1/2018

    M. Hino, E. Benami, N. Brooks. Machine learning for environmental monitoring. Nature Sustainability. 2018; (1):583–588.

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  • Published on 2/1/2016

    N. Brooks, V. Bhojvaid, M.A. Jeuland, J.J. Lewis, O. Patange, S.K. Pattanayak. How much do alternative cookstoves reduce biomass fuel use? Evidence from North India. Resource and Energy Economics. 2016; 43:153-171.

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