Selected Publications/Presentations

1) Gasana, J., Twagilimana, L., Hallenbeck, W. and Brenniman, G. Industrial Discharges of Metals in Kigali, Rwanda, and the Impact on Drinking Water Quality. Bull. of Envir. Contamin. and ToxicoL (1997) 58:523-526, Springer-Verlag New York INC
2) Gragg, R., Gasana, J., Stephen Leong, & Ron Christalidi. Molecular Biomarkers as Measures of Environmental Justice: A New Proposed Health-Assessment Paradigm, Int'l J. of Public Administration, January, 2002. FAU Press, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
3) McCoy, H.V., Messiah, S.E., Yu, Z., McGeary, K.A., Gasana, J. “Perpetrators, Victims and Observers of Violence: Chronic and Non-Chronic Drug Users”. August 23, 2000. Journal of Interpersonal Violence
4) Gasana, J. and Chamorro, A. Environmental Lead Contamination in Miami Metropolitan Area , Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, July, 2002. V. 12 # 4.5)
5) Gasana, J., Morin, J., Ndikuyeze, A. Impact of Water Supply and Sanitation on Diarrheal Morbidity Among Children in the Socioeconomic Context of Rwanda (Africa), Environmental Research Section A, 90, 76-88 (2002).
6) Gasana, J., Hlaing, W., Siegel, K., Chamorro, A., Niyonsenga, T. Blood Lead Levels in Children and Environmental Lead Contamination in Miami Inner City, Accepted for publication August 2006 by International Journal of Public Health and Environmental Research, Jackson, MS.
7) Siegel, K.A., Gasana, J., Roy, D., Niyonsenga, T., Hlaing, W.M., Evans, K. I. Building Healthy Communities through Communication and Access to Care. Poster Presentation at APHA 133rd Annual Meeting and Exposition: Evidence Based Policy and Practice. December 10-14, 2005, Philadelphia, PA.
8 Siegel, K.A., Gasana, J. Where Do We Go From Here?: Risk Assessment to Policy Change in Children’s Environmental Health: Case of Inner City Miami, FL. Poster Presentation at APHA 133rd Annual Meeting and Exposition: Evidence Based Policy and Practice. December 10-14, 2005, Philadelphia, PA.
9) Gasana, J., Siegel, K.A. Association between Childhood Lead Poisoning and Childhood Asthma Development. Oral Presentation at the NEHA 69th Annual Educational Conference and Exhibition, June 26-29, 2005, Providence, RI.
10) Siegel, K.A., Gasana, J. Geographic Distribution of Childhood Lead Poisoning in Southeastern Florida. Oral Presentation at the NEHA 69th Annual Educational Conference and Exhibition, June 26-29, 2005, Providence, RI.
11) Gasana, J., Siegel, K.A., Hlaing, W.M., Rosario, J., Dummula, K., and Owens, E.A. Assessing the Risks and Knowledge of Economically-Disadvantaged, Minority Urban Population in Preventing and Reducing Childhood Lead Poisoning, Poster Presentation at APHA 132ND Annual Meeting and Exposition: Public Health and the Environment, November 6-10, 2004, Washington, D.C.