Associate Professor

Department of Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center

College of Public Health

Professional Summary

• 2022-present, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health
• 2022-present, Claire M. Hubbard Professor of Health and Environment
• 2022-present, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• 2016-2022, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• 2013-2016, Environmental Consultant, Public Health Research Unit, Division of Community Health Promotion, Florida Department of Health
• 2010-2013, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Medical College of Georgia
• 2008-2010, Postdoctoral Fellow, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Applied Epidemiology Fellowship, Division of Environmental Health, Florida Department of Health

Education

• 2008, PhD, University of South Carolina
• 2003, MPH, Emory University
• 2001, BA, Emory University

Research interests

• Environmental exposures affect every aspect of our physical and mental health, quality of life, and life expectancy. Understanding the complex interactions between the environment and vulnerabilities, particularly in the context of disasters and other natural hazards, is an important public health focus, and will remain a vital component of the advancement and success of public health initiatives. My training includes environmental and infectious disease epidemiology and related methods, and my professional career has spanned both academia and public health practice, often integrating the two sectors. Therefore, much of my scholarly research is focused on the application of advanced epidemiologic and interdisciplinary methods to improve public health practice in environmental epidemiology, with a specific focus on climate & health and disaster epidemiology. My research seeks to measure the impacts that weather, climate, and disasters have on human health and systems from the micro (e.g., personal heat exposure measurement) to macro scales (e.g., population-level analyses, system dynamics modeling).

Selected Publications

• Hass AL, McCanless K, Cooper W, Ellis K, Furhmann C, Kintziger KW, Sugg M, Runkle J. Heat exposure misclassification: Do current methods of classifying diurnal range in individually experienced temperatures and heat indices accurately reflect personal exposure? Int J Biometerology 2022 (Online ahead of print); doi: 10.1007/s00484-022-02280-8.
• Jung J, Uejio CK, Kintziger KW, DuClos C, Reid K, Jordan M, Spector JT. Heat illness data strengthens vulnerability maps. BMC Public Health 2021; 21(1): 1999. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-12097-6.
• Kintziger KW, Stone KW, Jagger MA, Horney JA. What’s left undone: The impact of the COVID-19 response on the provision of public health services in the U.S.: A cross sectional study. PLOS One 2021; 16(10): e0255844. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255844.
• Jung J, Al-Hamdan MZ, Crosson WL, Uejio CK, DuClos C, Kintziger KW, Reid K, Jordan M, Zierden D, Spector JT, Insaf TZ. Evaluation of the NLDAS 2 and down-scaled air temperature data in Florida. Physical Geography 2021. doi: 10.1080/02723646.2021.1928878.
• Stone KW, Kintziger KW, Jagger MA, Horney JA. Public health workforce burnout in the COVID-19 Response in the U.S. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021; 18(8): 4369. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18084369.
• Rodriguez E, DuClos C, Joiner J, Jordan M, Reid K, Kintziger KW. Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER) following Hurricane Michael, Bay and Gulf County, Florida, 2019. J Public Health Manag Pract 2022; 28(2): E542-E551. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001365.
• Uejio C, Harduar Morano L, Jung J, Kintziger K, Jagger M, Chalmers J, Holmes T. Occupational heat exposure among municipal workers. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 2018; 91(6): 705-15. doi: 10.1007/s00420-018-1318-3.
• Kintziger KW, Jordan M, DuClos C, Gray A, Palcic JD. Measuring arsenic exposure among residents of Hernando County, Florida, 2012-2013. J Environ Health 2017; 80(3): 22-32.
• Kintziger K, Ortegren J, DuClos C, Jordan M, Smith T, Foglietti R, Merritt R, Donado L. Health impact assessments and extreme weather – challenges for environmental health. J Public Health Manag Pract 2017; 23: S60-66. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000604.
• Conlon KC, Kintziger KW, Jagger M, Stefanova L, Uejio CK, Konrad C. Working with climate projections to estimate disease burden: Perspectives from public health. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2016; 13: 804. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13080804.

Professional Affiliations

• Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
• American Meteorological Society