Ph.D. Student Profile
Abas Shkembi, MS
- Doctoral Candidate
- Cognate: Environmental Health Sciences
Education
- BS Statistics, University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2020)
- MS Environmental Health Science, Subplan: Industrial Hygiene, University of Michigan (2023)
Research Interests & Projects
- Environmental justice
- Environmental epidemiology
- Industrial hygiene
- Spatial epidemiology
Selected Publications
Shkembi A, Park SK, Zelner J, Neitzel RL (2025). Racial and Ethnic Inequities to Cumulative
Environmental and Occupational Impacts in Michigan. GeoHealth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GH001482
Shkembi A and Neitzel RL (2025). Historical Redlining and Cumulative Environmental Impacts across
the United States. Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c01111
Shkembi A, Zelner J, Park SK, Neitzel RL (2024). Workplace exposures vary across neighborhoods in
the US: implications on social vulnerability and racial/ethnic health disparities. Journal of Racial and
Ethnic Health Disparities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-024-02143-5
Shkembi A, Smith LM, Neitzel RL (2024). Linking environmental injustices in Detroit, MI to institutional
racial segregation through historical federal redlining. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental
Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-022-00512-y
Shkembi A, Smith LM, Neitzel RL (2023). Risk perception or hazard perception? Examining
misperceptions of miners’ personal exposures to noise. International Journal of Hygiene and
Environmental Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114263
Shkembi A, Smith LM, Bregg S, Neitzel RL (2022). Evaluating occupational noise exposure as a
contributor to injury risk among miners. Annals of Workplace Exposure and Health. 66(9): 1151-1161.
https://doi.org/10.1093/annweh/wxac059.
Environmental and Occupational Impacts in Michigan. GeoHealth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GH001482
Shkembi A and Neitzel RL (2025). Historical Redlining and Cumulative Environmental Impacts across
the United States. Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c01111
Shkembi A, Zelner J, Park SK, Neitzel RL (2024). Workplace exposures vary across neighborhoods in
the US: implications on social vulnerability and racial/ethnic health disparities. Journal of Racial and
Ethnic Health Disparities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-024-02143-5
Shkembi A, Smith LM, Neitzel RL (2024). Linking environmental injustices in Detroit, MI to institutional
racial segregation through historical federal redlining. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental
Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-022-00512-y
Shkembi A, Smith LM, Neitzel RL (2023). Risk perception or hazard perception? Examining
misperceptions of miners’ personal exposures to noise. International Journal of Hygiene and
Environmental Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114263
Shkembi A, Smith LM, Bregg S, Neitzel RL (2022). Evaluating occupational noise exposure as a
contributor to injury risk among miners. Annals of Workplace Exposure and Health. 66(9): 1151-1161.
https://doi.org/10.1093/annweh/wxac059.