Ginger Chew, Sc.D.,
Assistant Professor of Clinical Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences.

Dr. Chew's main research interest is bioaerosol exposure assessment. She is currently working with Drs. Pat Kinney and Frederica Perera (both in the Division of EHS) on two childhood asthma studies in New York City. Dr. Chew's laboratory uses immunoassay techniques to analyze cockroach, cat, dust mite, and fungal antigens in environmental samples. She serves on the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies (CUES) Asthma working group (New York, NY), and is a reviewer for The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, The American Journal of Public Health, The American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, and The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

PUBLICATIONS

Chew, G.L., H.A. Burge, D.W. Dockery, M.L. Muilenberg, S.T. Weiss, and D.R. Gold: Limitations of a home characteristics questionnaire as a predictor of indoor allergen levels. Am J Resp Crit Care Med. 157:5. 1536-1541, 1998.

Higgins, K.M., Davidian, M., Chew, G., and Burge, H.: The effect of serial dilution error on calibration inference in immunoassay. Biometrics V.54, No.1, 19-32, 1998.

Chew, G.L., Higgins, K.M, Milton, D.K., and H.A. Burge: The effects of carpet fresheners on the behaviour of indoor allergen assays. Clin Exp Allergy 29: 470-477, 1999.

Chew, G.L., K.M. Higgins, M.L. Muilenberg, D.R. Gold, and H.A. Burge: Monthly measurements of indoor allergens and the influence of housing type in a northeastern US city. Allergy 54: 1058-1066, 1999.

Kitch, B.T., Chew, G., Burge, H.A., Muilenberg, M.L., Weiss, S.T., Platts-Mills, T.A.E., O=Connor, G., and D.R. Gold: Socioeconomic predictors of high allergen levels in homes in the Greater Boston area. Environ Health Perspectives 108: 301-307, 2000.

Park, J., Spiegelman, D. Burge, H., Gold, D., Chew, G. and D. Milton: Longitudinal Study of Dust and Airborne Endotoxin in the Home. Environ Health Perspectives 108 (11): 1023-1028, 2000.

Northridge, M.E., Kinney, P.L., Chew, G.L., Shepard, P., Corbin-Mark, C., and J. Graziano: Community outreach and education program (COEP) at the NIEHS Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan: The basis for conducting scientifically valid, socially relevant research. Env Epidemiology and Toxicology 2: 142-150, 2000.

Chew, G., J. Douwes, G. Doekes, K.M. Higgins, J. Spithoven, R. van Strien, and B. Brunekreef: Fungal extracellular polysaccharides, and beta(1-3) glucans, and culturable fungi in repeated sampling of house dust. Indoor Air 11(3): 171-178, 2001.