Doug Brugge, PhD, MS

Positions

Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine

Contact

Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Phone   (617) 636-0326
Fax (617) 636-4017
Email dbrugge@aol.com
Education
Degree(s) PhD, MS
Institution(s) Harvard University; Harvard University School of Public Health
Research Focus

Douglas M. Brugge, PhD, MS has a PhD in cellular and developmental biology from Harvard University and a MS in industrial hygiene from the Harvard School of Public Health.  He is an Professor in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.  He is director of the NIH funded Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health study, a 5-year community-based participatory research project.  He also directs the Tufts Community Research Center and is part of the leadership core for the community engagement core of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute.  He has worked in community-collaborations with many neighborhoods of Boston, including Chinatown, and with Navajo communities in the Southwest.  His research has largely employed the model of community-collaborative research and methodologically has involved focus groups, oral histories, surveys, environmental sampling and health outcome assessment.  His research includes studies of asthma; of the impact of culture and language on health communication; the impact of environmental tobacco smoke; motor vehicle related injuries; and the impact of uranium mining and processing on Native Americans.  In 2007 he testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on uranium contamination in the Navajo Nation.  He has published over 100 academic publications that include original research, reviews, policy and historical analysis.  He is co-editor (with Pat Hynes) of Community Research in Environmental Health (Ashgate Publishing Group, UK, 2005) and co-editor (with Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Timothy Benally) of The Navajo People and Uranium Mining (University of New Mexico Press, 2006).

Select Publications

Brugge D, Benally T, Yazzie-Lewis E eds.  The Navajo People and Uranium Mining.  University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 2006 (hard cover), 2007 (soft cover).

Repace JL, Hyde JN, Brugge D. Air pollution in Boston bars before and after a smoking ban. BMC Public Health, 6:266, 2006.

Levy JI, Brugge D, Peters JL, Clougherty  JE, Saddler S.  A community-based participatory research study of the efficacy of multifaceted in-home environmental interventions for pediatric asthmatics in public housing.  Social Science & Medicine, 63:2191-2203, 2006.

Brugge D, deLemos JL, Bui C.  The Sequoyah corporation fuels release and the Church Rock spill: unpublicized nuclear releases in American Indian communities. American Journal of Public Health. 2007 97:1595-600. 

Henkin S, Brugge D, Bermudez OI, Gao X.  A case-control study of BMI and asthma in Asian children.  Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology 2008, 100:447-451. 

Donroe J, Tincopa M, Gilman RH, Brugge D, Moore DAJ.  Pedestrian road traffic injuries in urban Peruvian children and adolescents: Case control analyses of personal and environmental risk factors.  PLoS ONE 2008, 3: e3166. 

Brugge D, Woodin W, Schuch TJ, Salas FL, Bennett A, Osgood N-D.  Community level data suggest that asthma prevalence varies between US and foreign born black subpopulations. Journal of Asthma 2008, 45:785–789. 

DeLemos JL, Brugge D, Cajero M, Downs M, Durant JL, George CM, Henio-Adeky S, Nez T, Manning T, Rock T, Seschillie B, Shuey C, Lewis J.  Development of Risk Maps to Minimize Uranium Exposures in the Navajo Churchrock Mining District.  Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source., 2009, 8:29. 

Brugge D, Edgar T, George K, Heung J, Laws MB.  Beyond literacy and numeracy in patient provider communication: Focus groups suggest roles for empowerment, provider attitude and language.  BMC Public Health 2009, 9:354. 

Brugge D, Rivera-Carrasco E, Zotter J, Leung A.  Community-based participatory research in Boston’s neighborhoods: Asthma case examples.  Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health.  2010; 65:38-44. 

Rioux CL, Tucker KL, Mwamburi M, Gute DM, Cohen SA, Brugge D.Residential Traffic Exposure, Pulse Pressure and C-Reactive Protein: Consistency and Contrast Among Exposure Characterization Methods. Environmental Health Perspectives 2010; 118:803-811.

Brugge D, Kapunan P, Babcock-Dunning L, Matloff R, Cagua-Koo D, Okoroh E, Salas F, Bradeen L, Woodin M. Developing methods to compare low-education community-based and university-based survey teams.  Health Promotion Practice 2010, 11:645-653.

Durant JL, Ash CA, Wood EC, Herndon SC, Jayne JT, Knighton WB, Canagaratna MR, Trull JB, Brugge D, Zamore W, and Kolb CEShort-term variation in near-highway air pollutant gradients on a winter morning.  Atmospheric. Chemistry and Physics. 2010, 10, 8341–8352.

Phan L, Hui D, Fefferman N, Brugge D.  Impact of Street Crime on Boston Chinatown.  Local Environment 2010; 15: 481–491.

Henkin S, Tucker KL, Gao X, Falcon LM, Qawi I, Brugge D.  Association of depression, psycho-social stress and acculturation with respiratory disease among Puerto Rican adults in Massachusetts.  Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 2011, 13:214–223. 

Woodin M, Tin AH, Moy S, Palella M, Brugge D.  Lessons for primary prevention of asthma: Foreign-born children have less association of SES and pests with asthma diagnosis.  Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.  2011; 13:462–469.

Rioux CL, Tucker KL, Brugge D, Gute DM, Mwamburi M.  Traffic Exposure in a Population with High Prevalence Type 2 Diabetes  -  Do Medications Influence Concentrations of C-Reactive Protein?  Environmental Pollution.  2011; 159:2051-2060

Martinez LS, Rubin CL, Russell B, Leslie LK, Brugge D.  Community Conceptualizations of Health: Implications for Transdisciplinary Team Science.  Clinical and Translational Science Journal. 2011; 4:163-167.

 

 

 

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