Health and Environmental Economics Lab (HEEL)
Welcome to the Health and Environmental Economics Lab (HEEL)
Dr. Elaine Hill leads the Health and Environmental Economics Lab, which carries out diverse research related to health and environmental economics. The lab seeks to apply applied econometric tools and data science approaches to understand the intersection between health, policy, the environment and human capital formation, with an emphasis on the effect of environmental exposures on health and translating research findings into effective policy. The research team uses administrative health data (e.g., claims, hospital discharge data, vital statistics), administrative environmental data (e.g., EPA monitoring, USGS monitoring, regulatory sampling data, regulatory violations data), geographic information systems (GIS), and remote sensing data to address pressing questions for health policy. This lab regularly collaborates with experts in epidemiology, data science, exposure assessment, psychology, and various medical specialties. The goal of this research is to provide policy relevant evidence to promote healthy communities.

Elaine L. Hill, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Publications
- Racial and Urban-Rural Disparities in Lung Cancer Care: Insight from a Latent Class Growth Analysis.; Journal of cancer policy. 2025 Apr 11.
- A Population-Based Study of Rates of Invasive Bacterial Infection (IBI) and Missed IBI in Febrile Infants 8 to 90 Days of Age.; The Journal of pediatrics. 2025 Apr 06.
- Long COVID after SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy in the United States.; Nature communications; Vol 16(1), pp. 3005. 2025 Apr 01.
- Diagnosis and Coding of Opioid Misuse: A Systematic Scoping Review and Implementation Framework.; Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.). 2025 Feb 28.
- Effect of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) on hospitalization among adults with COVID-19: An electronic health record-based target trial emulation from N3C.; PLoS medicine; Vol 22(1), pp. e1004493. 2025 Jan 17.
- Portable Medical Orders and Inpatient Cost at End of Life in Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes.; JCO oncology practice. 2024 Dec 16.
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Hill Lab
601 Elmwood Ave
Rochester, NY 14642