
Carina Gronlund
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BIO
As an environmental epidemiologist and with funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and Detroit community input, I study how social, economic, health, and built environment characteristics and/or air quality affect vulnerability to extreme heat and extreme precipitation. This research will help cities understand how to adapt to heat, heat waves and heavy rainfall in a changing climate.
I received my BA in Biology from the University of Chicago, with a specialization in Ecology and Evolution. Subsequently, I worked as a research assistant in the Clinical Trials Office at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, MI before pursing a Masters in Public Health at the University of Michigan. I completed my MPH in 2008 and then completed my PhD in 2013 in the University of Michigan Department of Environmental Health Sciences, where I was a National Institute on Aging Public Health and Aging trainee. My dissertation focused on associations between high temperatures and hospital admissions and mortality among the elderly as well as sociodemographic and land cover characteristics that modify these associations. In my postdoctoral fellowships, I studied how social and environmental characteristics influence vulnerability to heat-related health effects, using data from longitudinal studies of cardiovascular health in seven U.S. cities as well as state and national records of severe health events.
- Snider-Hoy, Natalie G., Buchalter, R. Blake, Hastert, Theresa A., Dyson, Gregory, Carina Gronlund, Ruterbusch, Julie J., Schwartz, Ann G., Stoffel, Elena M., Rozek, Laura S., Purrington, Kristen S.. 2025. Social-Environmental Burden Is Associated with Increased Colorectal Cancer Mortality in Metropolitan Detroit. Cancer Research Communications 5(4):694-705.
- Claire McKenna, Carina Gronlund, Diana Hernández, Parth Vaishnav. 2025. When homeowners lose momentum after an energy audit: Barriers to completing weatherization in the United States Midwest. Energy Research & Social Science 122:103979.
- Larson, Peter S., Steiner, Allison L., O'Neill, Marie S., Baptist, Alan P., Carina Gronlund. 2025. Chronic and infectious respiratory mortality and short-term exposures to four types of pollen taxa in older adults in Michigan, 2006-2017. BMC Public Health 25(1):1-12.
- Siddika, Nazeeba, Carina Gronlund, Handal, Alexis J., O'Neill, Marie S.. 2024. Advancing research on greenspace and climate-sensitive adverse birth outcomes for equity and impact. Environmental Epidemiology 8(6):e353.
- Larson, Peter S., Steiner, Allison L., Bennion, Erica, Baptist, Alan P., O'Neill, Marie S., Carina Gronlund. 2024. Pollen effects in a changing climate: Ragweed pollen exposure and sleepiness in immunotherapy patients of a Southeastern Michigan allergy clinic. International Journal of Biometeorology 68:2143-2152.
- Brian Stone, Jr., Carina Jane Gronlund, Evan Mallen, David Hondula, Marie S. O’Neill, Mayuri Rajput, Santiago Grijalva, Kevin Lanza, Sharon Harlan, Larissa Larsen, Godfried Augenbroe, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Ashley Broadbent, Matei Georgescu. 2023. How Blackouts during Heat Waves Amplify Mortality and Morbidity Risk. Environmental Science & Technology 57(23):8245-8255.
- Miatta A. Buxton, Safa Heydarzadeh, Carina Jane Gronlund, Marisol Castillo-Castrejon, Myrna Souraye Godines-Enriquez, Marie S. O’Neill, Felipe Vadillo-Ortega. 2023. Associations between Air Pollution Exposure and Blood Pressure during Pregnancy among PRINCESA Cohort Participants. Toxics 11(5):424.
- Larissa Larsen, Carina Jane Gronlund, Kaan Cem Ketenci, Sharon L. Harlan, David M. Hondula, Brian Stone Jr., Kevin Lanza, Evan Mallen, Mary K. Wright, Marie S. O'Neill. 2023. Safe at Home? A Comparison of Factors Influencing Indoor Residential Temperatures During Warm Weather Among Three Cities. Journal of the American Planning Association 89(3):363-375.
- Gronlund,Carina Jane, Kaan Cem Ketenci, Tony G. Reames, Peter S. Larson, Justin Schott, Zachary Rowe, Quinton S. Jenkins, Mario O. Sanca, Troy Tournat, Sol,Ketlyne, Don'aa Williams, Emma Gijsbers, Marie S. O'Neill. 2021. Indoor apparent temperature, cognition, and daytime sleepiness among low-income adults in a temperate climate. Indoor Air 32(1):e12972.
- Khan, Anam Mashaal, Finlay, Jessica Marie, Clarke, Philippa J, Sol,Ketlyne, Melendez, Robert A, Judd, Suzanne, Gronlund, Carina Jane. 2021. Association between temperature exposure and cognition: a cross-sectional analysis of 20,687 aging adults in the United States. BMC Public Health 21:1484.