NCSU (PI Brian Reich and Shu Yang) in collaboration with Colorado State and the EPA has been awarded the NIH R01 entitled “Spatial and Tensor Methods for Estimating the Health Effects of PFAS Mixtures”.
Project narrative: PFAS “forever” chemicals are pervasive in the US and have been associated with adverse health outcomes including hypertension, liver and thyroid diseases, and some types of cancer. Precisely quantifying the effects of these chemicals is challenging because the data are typically observational, spatially-dependent and high-dimensional. We develop new causal inference methods and apply them to PFAS data in California, North Carolina and across the US to refine our understanding of this emerging public health risk.