Justin Remais

About

Justin Remais, PhD, is a Professor and Chair of the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. His professional contact information includes an email and phone number, and his office is located at Berkeley Way West, Office 5301. The page primarily lists members of the Remais Lab, including postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and previous lab members, but does not provide detailed information about his research focus, background, or key contributions.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Environmental health
• Pathology
• Immunology
• Ecology
• Internal medicine
• Intensive care medicine
• Biology

Selected publications

• Environmental Factors Influencing COVID-19 Incidence and Severity

  Annual Review of Public Health · 2022 · 174 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Emerging evidence supports a link between environmental factors-including air pollution and chemical exposures, climate, and the built environment-and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) susceptibility and severity. Climate, air pollution, and the built environment have long been recognized to influence viral respiratory infections, and studies have established similar associations with COVID-19 outcomes. More limited…

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• Scientists’ call to action: Microbes, planetary health, and the Sustainable Development Goals

  Cell · 2024-09-01 · 99 citations

  reviewOpen access

  Microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, and protists, are essential to life on Earth and the functioning of the biosphere. Here, we discuss the key roles of microorganisms in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighting recent and emerging advances in microbial research and technology that can facilitate our transition toward a sustainable future. Given the central role of microorganisms in the biochemical processing of elements, synthesizi…

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• Coccidioidomycosis and COVID-19 Co-Infection, United States, 2020

  Emerging infectious diseases · 2021 · 50 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  P ersons with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) can have a wide range of symptoms, including cough, diffi culty breathing, and fatigue (1). These symptoms are also common among patients with coccidioidomycosis (2), a primarily pulmonary disease caused by inhalation of Coccidioides, a soildwelling dimorphic fungi. These spores spread through the air, especially through wind erosion in dusty environments and dirt disrupting activities such as digging or construction. Coccidioides spores are found in…

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• Recent and Forecasted Increases in Coccidioidomycosis Incidence Linked to Hydroclimatic Swings, California, USA

  Emerging infectious diseases · 2025-03-18 · 12 citations

  articleOpen access

  In 2023, California reported near-record high coccidioidomycosis cases after a dramatic transition from drought to heavy precipitation. Using an ensemble model, we forecasted 12,244 cases statewide during April 1, 2024-March 31, 2025, a 62% increase over cases reported 2 years before and on par with case counts for 2023.

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• Estimating the Exposure–Response Relationship between Fine Mineral Dust Concentration and Coccidioidomycosis Incidence Using Speciated Particulate Matter Data: A Longitudinal Surveillance Study

  Environmental Health Perspectives · 2025-01-01 · 12 citations

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  BACKGROUND: spp. spores, is an emerging infectious disease that is increasing in incidence throughout the southwestern US. The pathogen is soil-dwelling, and spore dispersal and human exposure are thought to co-occur with airborne mineral dust exposures, yet fundamental exposure-response relationships have not been conclusively estimated. OBJECTIVES: We estimated associations between fine mineral dust concentration and coccidioidomycosis incidence in California from 2000 to 2017 at the census tr…

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Recent grants

• EAGER: Collaborative Research: Rapid Production of Geospatial Network Inputs for Spatially Explicit Epidemiological Modeling of COVID-19 in the USA

  NSF · $50k · 2020–2021

• RAPID: Flood-related pathogen risk models appropriate for low resource settings

  NSF · $50k · 2012–2014

• Integrating epidemiologic and environmental approaches to understand and predict Coccidioides exposure and coccidioidomycosis emergence

  NIH · $4.5M · 2019–2025

Frequent coauthors

• Susanne H. Sokolow

  52 shared

• Giulio A. De Leo

  Stanford University

  50 shared

• Philip A. Collender

  University of California, Berkeley

  39 shared

• Christopher M. Hoover

  38 shared

• Jennifer R. Head

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  35 shared

• Gilles Riveau

  35 shared

• Jason R. Rohr

  University of Notre Dame

  27 shared

• Isabel J. Jones

  27 shared

Labs

• REMAIS LAB @ BERKELEYPI

  Environmental Health Sciences

Education

• PhD, Environmental Health Sciences

  University of California, Berkeley

• MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering

  University of California, Berkeley

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