Nina Brooks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Brooks’ research interests are in understanding the environmental and social determinants of health and generating evidence to inform climate and health policy, primarily in the Global South. Her current research is focused on implementing an energy efficiency intervention to reduce emissions and air pollution from the brick sector in Bangladesh and examines the relationships between heat stress, land-cover change, and reproductive health outcomes. Her previous work has studied the environmental and health consequences of brick manufacturing in Bangladesh, how variability in agricultural growing season quality affects fertility preferences in sub-Saharan Africa, and how abortion policies impact women’s health and economic outcomes. Her research employs a range of disciplinary approaches and tools from economics, demography, data science, geography, and epidemiology.

Recent publications

• Nina Brooks, Debashish Biswas, Raduan Hossin, Alexander Yu, Shampa Saha, Senjuti Saha, Samir K. Saha, Stephen P. Luby. Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh. World Development. 2023