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Kristina Kintziger, PhD, MPH

Claire M. Hubbard Professor of Health and Environment
Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health
Fellow, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, University of Nebraska

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Kristina Kintziger, PhD, is a Claire M. Hubbard Professor of Health & Environment in the UNMC Department of Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health of the College of Public Health. She also is a fellow of the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute of the University of Nebraska.

She is an adjunct associate professor of the Department of Public Health of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where she previously served as an assistant professor.

She also was an environmental consultant of the Public Health Research Unit in the Division of Community Health Promotion of the Florida Department of Health, and she served as an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the Medical College of Georgia.

She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists in the Division of Environmental Health of the 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 everyone's 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. Dr. Kintziger's 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 her 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. Her 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.

Professional Affiliations

International Society for Environmental Epidemiologists
American Meteorological Society
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
American Public Health Association