Jenna Krall, PhD

Dr. Jenna R. Krall is an associate professor in the Department of Global and Community Health. Krall is a biostatistician with research interests in air pollution and environmental epidemiology. Her work has been focused on developing methods for estimating sources of air pollution and their associations with health. She is also interested in statistical computing (R, SAS, Stata) and collaborative work related to chemical mixtures, spatial statistics, and missing data. She received her PhD in biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her BA from George Mason University. Prior to joining GCH, Krall completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University. Please see her research website for more information.

Research

Research Interests

• Biostatistics
• Environmental Epidemiology
• Environmental Health

Select Publications

• Chin H, Krall JR. Goldberg M, Stanczyk FZ, Darge K, Stallings VA, Rogan WJ, Umbach DM, Baird DD.  Early life anti-Mullerian hormone trajectories in infant girls. Epidemiology, 2023 Apr 10;32(4):568-575.  doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001610. PubMed PMID: 36943795; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10238655
• Krall JR, Keller JP, Peng RD. Assessing the health estimation capacity of air pollution exposure prediction models. Environ Health. 2022 Mar 17;21(1):35. doi: 10.1186/s12940-022-00844-0. PubMed PMID: 35300698; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8928613.
• Krall JR, Moore KD*, Joannidis C*, Lee YC, Pollack AZ, McCombs M, Thornburg J, Balachandran S. Commuter types identified using clustering and their associations with source-specific PM2.5., 200. Environ Res. 2021. Sep;200: doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111419. Epub 2021 Jun 1. PubMed PMID: 34087193
• Krall JR, Adibah N*, Babin LM*, Lee YC, Motti VG, McCombs M, McWilliams A, Thornburg J, Pollack AZ. Estimating exposure to traffic-related PM2.5 for women commuters using vehicle and personal monitoring. Environ Res. 2020 Aug;187:109644. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109644. Epub 2020 May 11. PubMed PMID: 32422483.
• Krall JR, Chang HH, Waller LA, Mulholland JA, Winquist A, Talbott EO, Rager JR, Tolbert PE, Sarnat SE. A multicity study of air pollution and cardiorespiratory emergency department visits: Comparing approaches for combining estimates across cities. Environ Int. 2018 Nov;120:312-320. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2018.07.033. Epub 2018 Aug 11. PubMed PMID: 30107292; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6218942.
• Krall JR, Hackstadt AJ, Peng RD. A hierarchical modeling approach to estimate regional acute health effects of particulate matter sources. Stat Med. 2017 Apr 30;36(9):1461-1475. doi: 10.1002/sim.7210. Epub 2017 Jan 18. PubMed PMID: 28098412; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5378603.
• Krall JR, Mulholland JA, Russell AG, Balachandran S, Winquist A, Tolbert PE, Waller LA, Sarnat SE. Associations between Source-Specific Fine Particulate Matter and Emergency Department Visits for Respiratory Disease in Four U.S. Cities. Environ Health Perspect. 2017 Jan;125(1):97-103. doi: 10.1289/EHP271. Epub 2016 Jun 17. PubMed PMID: 27315241; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5226704.
• Krall JR, Simpson CH, Peng RD. A model-based approach for imputing censored data in source apportionment studies. Environ Ecol Stat. 2015 Dec 1;22(4):779-800. Epub 2015 Jun 4. PubMed PMID: 26640398; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4667983.
• Powell H, Krall JR, Wang Y, Bell ML, Peng RD. Ambient Coarse Particulate Matter and Hospital Admissions in the Medicare Cohort Air Pollution Study, 1999-2010. Environ Health Perspect. 2015 Nov;123(11):1152-8. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1408720. Epub 2015 Apr 14. PubMed PMID: 25872223; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4629736.
• Krall JR, Anderson GB, Dominici F, Bell ML, Peng RD. Short-term exposure to particulate matter constituents and mortality in a national study of U.S. urban communities. Environ Health Perspect. 2013 Oct;121(10):1148-53. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1206185. Epub 2013 Aug 2. PubMed PMID: 23912641; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3801200.

Honors and Awards

• Master Teacher Award for Junior Faculty, College of Public Health, George Mason University, 2023
• Early Career Researcher Award, College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University, 2022
• Finalist and Teacher of Distinction, Teaching Excellence Award, George Mason University, 2022

Affiliations

• Secretary/Treasurer

          A section on Statistics in Epidemiology, American Statistical Association,

• Member

          ENAR

• Member

          ASA

Degrees

• PhD, Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
• BA, Mathematics and Dance, George Mason University