Roby Greenwald
Associate Professor and MPH Program Director Population Health Sciences- Education
Ph.D., 2005, Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S., 2001, Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S., 1994, Clemson University
- Biography
Roby Greenwald is an Associate Professor and Director of the MPH program in the Department of Population Health Sciences in the School of Public Health, where he joined the faculty in fall 2014. He also directs the school’s Graduate Certificate in Public Health program.
His primary research interests are measuring the ways in which air pollution influences human health, and much of his work involves the development of unique sampling systems for assessing exposure to air pollution in special microenvironments such as inside vehicles while commuting.
From 2009-2014, he was on the research faculty of the Department of Environmental Health at Emory University. From 2005 to 2008, he was a post-doctoral fellow in Emory’s Department of Pediatrics and worked on a project investigating the influence of air pollution exposure on pediatric asthma patients. From 1999-2005, he was a PhD student at Georgia Tech and worked on two projects: development of an instrument to measure water-insoluble aerosols in real-time and computer modeling of the influence of atmospheric particulate matter on crop production.
Prior to graduate school, he taught beekeeping as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa (1995-1998) and studied civil engineering at Clemson University (1990-1994).
- Publications
Roby Greenwald, Matthew J. Hayat, Jerusha Barton, Anastasia Lopukhin. A novel method for quantifying the inhaled dose of air pollutants based on heart rate, breathing rate and forced vital capacity. PLOS ONE 11(1): e0147578, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147578
Roby Greenwald, Michael H. Bergin, Fuyuen Yip, Tegan Boehmer, Priya Kewada, Martin Shafer, James J. Schauer, Jeremy A. Sarnat. On-roadway in-cabin exposure to particulate matter: measurement results using both continuous and time-integrated sampling approaches. Aerosol Science & Technology, 48: 664-675, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2014.912745
Roby Greenwald, Stefanie Sarnat, Amit Raysoni, Wen-Whai Li, Brent Johnson, Thomas Stock, Fernando Holguìn, Teresa Sosa, Jermey Sarnat. Associations between source-indicative pollution metrics and increases in pulmonary inflammation and reduced lung function in a panel of asthmatic children Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health , 6: 487-499, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11869-012-0186-3
Roby Greenwald, AM Fitzpatrick, B Gaston, NV Marozkina, SC Erzurum, WG Teague. Breath formate is a marker of S-nitrosothiol depletion in severe asthma PLoS ONE , 5: e11919, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011919
Roby Greenwald, JM Ferdinands, WG Teague. Ionic determinants of exhaled breath condensate pH before and after exercise in adolescent athletes Pediatric Pulmonology , 44: 768-777, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppul.21055