Jenna Krall, PhD

Dr. Jenna R. Krall is an assistant professor in the Department of Global and Community Health. Krall is a biostatistician with research interests in air pollution and environmental epidemiology. Her work has been focused on developing methods for estimating sources of air pollution and their associations with health. She is also interested in statistical computing (R, SAS, Stata) and collaborative work related to chemical mixtures, spatial statistics, and missing data. She received her PhD in biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her BA from George Mason University. Prior to joining GCH, Krall completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University. Please see her research website for more information.

University Service

• Member, Inclusive Excellence Working Group, College of Public Health, 2021-present
• Member, Master’s Program Advisory Committee, Department of Global and Community Health, 2021-present
• Member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Statistics, 2021-2022
• Member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Global and Community Health, 2020-2021
• Senator, Faculty Senate, 2018-2020
• Member, Faculty Matters Committee, George Mason University, 2019-2020
• Member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Global and Community Health, 2019-2020
• Member, PhD Task Force, Department of Global and Community Health, 2018-2019
• Member, Faculty Search Committee, College of Health and Human Services, 2018-2019
• Member, Graduate Program Advisory Committee, Department of Global and Community Health, 2017-2018
• Applicant reviewer, Master of Public Health, 2017-present
• Member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Global and Community Health, 2016-2017

Community Service

• Secretary/Treasurer, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, American Statistical Association, 2022-2024
• Representative, Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR), ENAR 2022 program committee, 2021
• Member, Student awards committee, ENAR, 2018-2021
• Organizer, ENAR invited session, 2018, 2020, 2022
• Ad hoc reviewer, Medical Research Council, UK Research and Innovation, 2021
• Ad hoc reviewer, NIEHS R21 Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities in Environmental Health, 2020-2021
• Ad hoc reviewer, Harvard T.H. Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health Pilot Project, 2020
• Ad hoc reviewer, Health Effects Institute, 2018

Research

Research Interests

• Biostatistics
• Environmental Epidemiology
• Air pollution
• Source apportionment

Select Publications

Krall JR, Keller JP, Peng RD. Assessing the health estimation capacity of air pollution exposure prediction models. Environ Health. 2022 Mar 17;21(1):35. doi: 10.1186/s12940-022-00844-0. PubMed PMID: 35300698; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8928613.

Krall JR, Adibah N, Babin LM, Lee YC, Motti VG, McCombs M, McWilliams A, Thornburg J, Pollack AZ. Estimating exposure to traffic-related PM2.5 for women commuters using vehicle and personal monitoring. Environ Res. 2020 Aug;187:109644. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109644. Epub 2020 May 11. PubMed PMID: 32422483.

Krall JR, Chang HH, Waller LA, Mulholland JA, Winquist A, Talbott EO, Rager JR, Tolbert PE, Sarnat SE. A multicity study of air pollution and cardiorespiratory emergency department visits: Comparing approaches for combining estimates across cities. Environ Int. 2018 Nov;120:312-320. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2018.07.033. Epub 2018 Aug 11. PubMed PMID: 30107292; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6218942.

Krall JR, Hackstadt AJ, Peng RD. A hierarchical modeling approach to estimate regional acute health effects of particulate matter sources. Stat Med. 2017 Apr 30;36(9):1461-1475. doi: 10.1002/sim.7210. Epub 2017 Jan 18. PubMed PMID: 28098412; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5378603.

Krall JR, Mulholland JA, Russell AG, Balachandran S, Winquist A, Tolbert PE, Waller LA, Sarnat SE. Associations between Source-Specific Fine Particulate Matter and Emergency Department Visits for Respiratory Disease in Four U.S. Cities. Environ Health Perspect. 2017 Jan;125(1):97-103. doi: 10.1289/EHP271. Epub 2016 Jun 17. PubMed PMID: 27315241; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5226704.

Krall JR, Simpson CH, Peng RD. A model-based approach for imputing censored data in source apportionment studies. Environ Ecol Stat. 2015 Dec 1;22(4):779-800. Epub 2015 Jun 4. PubMed PMID: 26640398; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4667983.

Powell H, Krall JR, Wang Y, Bell ML, Peng RD. Ambient Coarse Particulate Matter and Hospital Admissions in the Medicare Cohort Air Pollution Study, 1999-2010. Environ Health Perspect. 2015 Nov;123(11):1152-8. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1408720. Epub 2015 Apr 14. PubMed PMID: 25872223; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4629736.

Krall JR, Anderson GB, Dominici F, Bell ML, Peng RD. Short-term exposure to particulate matter constituents and mortality in a national study of U.S. urban communities. Environ Health Perspect. 2013 Oct;121(10):1148-53. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1206185. Epub 2013 Aug 2. PubMed PMID: 23912641; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3801200.

Grants

CURRENT AS CO-INVESTIGATOR

2021-2022: Detailed Emissions in Virginia (DEVA): Identifying air pollution sources for environmental justice
PI: Henneman LRF
Source: Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research

2021-2026: A multicity study of wintertime inversions and acute cardiorespiratory health events in the western U.S.
PI: Holmes HA
Source: University of Utah (Prime: NIEHS R01 ES032810)

2020-2024 Investigating mixtures of pollutants and Endometriosis in tissue (IMPLANT) study (PI: Pollack AZ) 
Source: NIEHS R01 ES031079

COMPLETED AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

2019-2021: Hierarchical source apportionment for exposure to traffic-related air pollution
Source: Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research PI: Krall JR

2017-2018: GEST DC: Gestational ExpoSure to Traffic in the DC metro area
Source: 2017-2018 George Mason University Multidisciplinary Research Award PI: Krall JR

Affiliations

• Member

   
  ENAR
• Member

   
  ASA

Degrees

• PhD, Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
• BA, Mathematics and Dance, George Mason University