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Cole Brokamp, PhD


  • Member, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
  • Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

About

Biography

As a biostatistician, epidemiologist and geospatial data scientist, I specialize in informatics and machine learning, with applications to population-level environmental, community and health outcome data.

I have been a researcher for more than eight years and began working at Cincinnati Children’s in 2016.

BS: Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2010.

PhD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2016.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2017.

Interests

Developing new methods and technologies to support environmental and population health research; tools for geocoding and geomarker assessment; high resolution spatiotemporal exposure assessment models; causal inference machine learning methods; roles of environmental exposures; community characteristics on pediatric psychiatric health; electronic health records, observational cohort studies, clinical registries, and vital records.

Research Areas

Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Publications

The Test and Protect Program: A Data-Driven, Community-Engaged Approach to COVID-19 Testing Site Localization. Beck, AF; Mattingly, T; Brokamp, C; Sahay, R; Manning, ER; Taylor, S; Kuhnell, P; Kegley, B; Trabue, K; Margolis, PA; Kahn, RS; Hartley, DM. Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP. 2025; 31:61-64.

Community Implementation and Evaluation of the Chicago Parent Program. Ammerman, RT; Zion, C; Cleary, OM; Raglin Bignall, WJ; Mara, CA; Theuerling, AM; Offenbacker, EJ; Triplett, TA; Mitchell, MJ; Brokamp, C; Smith, RR; Stark, LJ. Journal of Community Psychology. 2025; 53:e23176.

Spike and Slab Regression for Nonstationary Gaussian Linear Mixed Effects Modeling of Rapid Disease Progression. Gecili, E; Brokamp, C; Asar, Ö; Andrinopoulou, ER; Brewington, JJ; Szczesniak, RD. Environmetrics. 2025; 36.

The Role of Environmental Exposures on Survival After Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Resection. Whitrock, JN; Carter, MM; Pratt, CG; Brokamp, C; Harvey, K; Pan, J; Rai, S; Salfity, H; Starnes, SL; Van Haren, RM. 2024; 2:618-623.

The Legacy of Redlining: Increasing Childhood Asthma Disparities through Neighborhood Poverty. Ryan, PH; Zanobetti, A; Coull, BA; Andrews, H; Bacharier, LB; Bailey, D; Beamer, PI; Blossom, J; Brokamp, C; Datta, S; Wright, AL; Zoratti, EM; Gern, JE; Gold, DR. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2024; 210:1201-1209.

Robust identification of environmental exposures and community characteristics predictive of rapid lung disease progression. Peterson, CJ; Rao, MB; Palipana, A; Manning, ER; Vancil, A; Ryan, P; Brokamp, C; Kramer, E; Szczesniak, RD; Gecili, E. Science of the Total Environment. 2024; 950:175348.

Integrating a machine learning algorithm to forecast daily asthma hospitalizations. Colegate, SP; Seid, M; Hartley, D; Bruce, J; Beck, AF; Brokamp, C. Annals of Epidemiology. 2024; 97:120.

Particulate Matter Exposure and Default Mode Network Equilibrium During Early Adolescence. Zundel, CG; Ely, S; Brokamp, C; Strawn, JR; Jovanovic, T; Ryan, P; Marusak, HA. Brain Connectivity. 2024; 14:307-318.

Development of a multimodal geomarker pipeline to assess the impact of social, economic, and environmental factors on pediatric health outcomes. Manning, ER; Duan, Q; Taylor, S; Ray, S; Corley, AM S; Michael, J; Gillette, R; Unaka, N; Hartley, D; Beck, AF; Riley, C; Sandoval, L; Shook, L; Steller, J. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2024; 31:1471-1478.

Evaluating precision medicine tools in cystic fibrosis for racial and ethnic fairness. Colegate, SP; Palipana, A; Gecili, E; Szczesniak, RD; Brokamp, C. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2024; 8:e94.

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