Brent Coull

Biography

Dr. Coull's current research interests fall into the broad areas of categorical data analysis and semiparametric regression modeling. Recent topics in the analysis of categorical data include capture-recapture mixture models, random effect models for multiple discrete binary outcomes, confidence intervals for a binomial proportion, and order-restricted methods for stratified contingency tables. In the area of semiparametric regression modeling, he has focused on the development of such models for complex data structures often encountered in public health settings, such as cross-over and longitudinal settings.

Dr. Coull is also involved in collaborative research in environmental health. Current projects focus on the health effects of air pollution and the interrelationship between the microbial community and pollutants in the New Bedford Harbor area.

Publications

• High-resolution national radon maps based on massive indoor measurements in the United States.

  Li L, Coull BA, Zilli Vieira CL, Koutrakis P. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2025 Jan 21

• Associations of maternal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance plasma concentrations during pregnancy with offspring polycystic ovary syndrome and related characteristics in project viva.

  Wang Z, Fleisch A, Rifas-Shiman SL, Calafat AM, James-Todd T, Coull BA, Chavarro JE, Hivert MF, Whooten RC, Perng W, Oken E, Mahalingaiah S. Environ Res 2025 Jan 09

• A novel approach for inferring effects on pregnancy loss.

  Leung M, Rowland ST, Modest AM, Hacker MR, Papatheodorou S, Wei Y, Schwartz J, Coull BA, Wilson A, Kioumourtzoglou MA, Weisskopf MG. Am J Epidemiol 2024 Dec 26

• Air pollution mixture exposure during pregnancy and postpartum psychological functioning: racial/ethnic- and fetal sex-specific associations.

  Chiu YM, Coull BA, Wilson A, Hsu HL, Xhani N, Nentin F, Deli BC, Schwartz J, Colicino E, Wright RO, Wright RJ. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2024 Nov 21

• Neighborhood Food Access in Early Life and Trajectories of Child Body Mass Index and Obesity.

  Aris IM, Wu AJ, Lin PD, Zhang M, Farid H, Hedderson MM, Zhu Y, Ferrara A, Chehab RF, Barrett ES, Carnell S, Camargo CA, Chu SH, Mirzakhani H, Kelly RS, Comstock SS, Strakovsky RS, O'Connor TG, Ganiban JM, Dunlop AL, Dabelea D, Breton CV, Bastain TM, Farzan SF, Call CC, Hartert T, Snyder B, Santarossa S, Cassidy-Bushrow AE, O'Shea TM, McCormack LA, Karagas MR, McEvoy CT, Alshawabkeh A, Zimmerman E, Wright RJ, McCann M, Wright RO, Coull B, Amutah-Onukagha N, Hacker MR, James-Todd T, Oken E. JAMA Pediatr 2024 Nov 01