Research Summary

My research focuses on environmental factors that contribute to low birth weight and adverse perinatal outcomes, such as neonatal morbidity and mortality. My current research interests are to expand the evidence of an association between low birth weight and decreased anthropometric growth (primarily stunting and wasting) among children who are heavily exposed to particulate matter and carbon monoxide from solid-fuel cook stoves in lesser-developed countries.

My long-term goal is to examine other social, economic and institutional forces that drive environmental health disparities, both globally, and among Latino immigrant populations residing in urban California.

Research Funding

  • August 18, 2021 - May 31, 2026 - Combustion of plastic waste and human health effects in Guatemala , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01ES032009
  • August 15, 2015 - July 31, 2017 - Prenatal household air pollution exposure: gas stove and behavioral interventions , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R21ES025032

Education

Tulane University, BA, 06/84, Latin American Studies
San Francisco State University, BS/MS, 06/91, Nursing
San Francisco State University, FNP, 06/96, Family Nurse Practitioner
University of California, Berkeley, MS, 06/04, Environmental Health Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, PhD, 06/08, Environmental Health Sciences

Honors & Awards

  • 2008
    Henrik L. Blum Award for Distinguished Social Action, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
  • 2009
    Burke Family Global Health Faculty Award, UCSF Global Health Sciences
  • 2009
    Faculty Development Award, UCSF Academic Senate
  • 2009
    NIH Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program Award, National Institutes of Health
  • 2010
    Service Award, San Lorenzo Ministry of Health, San Marcos, Guatemala
  • 2011
    CTSI KL2 Career Development Award in Multidisciplinary Clinical Research, UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute
  • 2012
    Service Award, San Lorenzo Ministry of Health, San Marcos, Guatemala
  • 2014
    Volunteer Award, Street Level Health Project, Oakland, California

Selected Publications

  1. Thompson LM. Invited Perspective: Household Air Pollution-Can Randomized Controlled Trials Provide the Answers to Complex Intervention Questions? Environ Health Perspect. 2022 Apr; 130(4):41301.  View on PubMed
  2. Checkley W, Hossen S, Rosa G, Thompson LM, McCracken JP, Diaz-Artiga A, Balakrishnan K, Simkovich SM, Underhill LJ, Nicolaou L, Hartinger SM, Davila-Roman VG, Kirby MA, Clasen TF, Rosenthal J, Peel JL. Facing the Realities of Pragmatic Design Choices in Environmental Health Studies: Experiences from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 23; 19(7).  View on PubMed
  3. Liao J, Liu Y, Steenland K, Pillarisetti A, Thompson LM, Dey S, Balakrishnan K, Clasen T. Child Survival and Early Lifetime Exposures to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter in India: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Environ Health Perspect. 2022 01; 130(1):17009.  View on PubMed
  4. Simkovich SM, Underhill LJ, Kirby MA, Crocker ME, Goodman D, McCracken JP, Thompson LM, Diaz-Artiga A, Castañaza-Gonzalez A, Garg SS, Balakrishnan K, Thangavel G, Rosa G, Peel JL, Clasen TF, McCollum ED, Checkley W, HAPIN Investigators. Resources and Geographic Access to Care for Severe Pediatric Pneumonia in Four Resource-limited Settings. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2022 01 15; 205(2):183-197.  View on PubMed
  5. Deol RM, Thompson LM, Chun KM, Chesla C. Managing Type 2 Diabetes: Beliefs and Daily Practices in First Generation Asian Indians in the United States. SAGE Open Nurs. 2022 Jan-Dec; 8:23779608211054814.  View on PubMed
  6. Quinn AK, Williams KN, Thompson LM, Harvey SA, Piedrahita R, Wang J, Quinn C, Pillarisetti A, McCracken JP, Rosenthal JP, Kirby MA, Diaz Artiga A, Thangavel G, Rosa G, Miranda JJ, Checkley W, Peel JL, Clasen TF. Fidelity and Adherence to a Liquefied Petroleum Gas Stove and Fuel Intervention during Gestation: The Multi-Country Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Randomized Controlled Trial. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 11 29; 18(23).  View on PubMed
  7. Younger A, Alkon A, Harknett K, Jean Louis R, Thompson LM. Adverse birth outcomes associated with household air pollution from unclean cooking fuels in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. Environ Res. 2022 03; 204(Pt C):112274.  View on PubMed
  8. Liao J, Kirby MA, Pillarisetti A, Piedrahita R, Balakrishnan K, Sambandam S, Mukhopadhyay K, Ye W, Rosa G, Majorin F, Dusabimana E, Ndagijimana F, McCracken JP, Mollinedo E, de Leon O, Díaz-Artiga A, Thompson LM, Kearns KA, Naeher L, Rosenthal J, Clark ML, Steenland K, Waller LA, Checkley W, Peel JL, Clasen T, Johnson M, HAPIN Investigators. LPG stove and fuel intervention among pregnant women reduce fine particle air pollution exposures in three countries: Pilot results from the HAPIN trial. Environ Pollut. 2021 Dec 15; 291:118198.  View on PubMed
  9. Suzanne M. Simkovich, Lisa M. Thompson, Maggie L. Clark, Jennifer L. Peel, Thomas Clasen, William Checkley, Joshua Rosenthal. A risk assessment tool for resumption of research activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2021 Aug 23; 2021(1).  View on PubMed
  10. Ashlinn K. Quinn, Anaité Diaz Artiga, Kalpana Balakrishnan, William Checkley, Steven Harvey, Jennifer L. Peel, Ricardo Piedrahita, Ajay Pillarisetti, Casey Quinn, Ghislaine Rosa, Joshua P. Rosenthal, Lisa M. Thompson, Jiantong Wang, Kendra N. Wiliams, Thomas F. Clasen. High Fidelity: Delivery and use of an LPG stove intervention during pregnancy in the HAPIN trial. ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2021 Aug 23; 2021(1).  View on PubMed
  11. Deol RM, Thompson LM, Chun KM, Chesla C. Beliefs About the Causes of Type 2 Diabetes Among First-Generation Asian Indians in the United States. J Transcult Nurs. 2022 01; 33(1):65-71.  View on PubMed
  12. Simkovich SM, Thompson LM, Clark ML, Balakrishnan K, Bussalleu A, Checkley W, Clasen T, Davila-Roman VG, Diaz-Artiga A, Dusabimana E, Fuentes LL, Harvey S, Kirby MA, Lovvorn A, McCollum ED, Mollinedo EE, Peel JL, Quinn A, Rosa G, Underhill LJ, Williams KN, Young BN, Rosenthal J, HAPIN Investigators. A risk assessment tool for resumption of research activities during the COVID-19 pandemic for field trials in low resource settings. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2021 04 12; 21(1):68.  View on PubMed
  13. Dávila-Román VG, Toenjes AK, Meyers RM, Lenzen PM, Simkovich SM, Herrera P, Fung E, Papageorghiou AT, Craik R, McCracken JP, Thompson LM, Balakrishnan K, Rosa G, Peel J, Clasen TF, Hossen S, Checkley W, Fuentes LL, HAPIN Investigators. Ultrasound Core Laboratory for the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial: Standardized Training and Image Management for Field Studies Using Portable Ultrasound in Fetal, Lung, and Vascular Evaluations. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2021 06; 47(6):1506-1513.  View on PubMed
  14. Hengstermann M, Díaz-Artiga A, Otzóy-Sucúc R, Laura Maria Ruiz-Aguilar A, Thompson LM, HAPIN Investigators. Developing Visual Messages to Support Liquefied Petroleum Gas Use in Intervention Homes in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial in Rural Guatemala. Health Educ Behav. 2021 10; 48(5):651-669.  View on PubMed
  15. W. Ye, K. Balakrishnan, G. Thangavel, A. Pillarisetti, L.M. Thompson, K. Steenland, T. Clasen. Associations of PM2.5 Exposure with Blood Pressure among Pregnant Women in Rural India: Evidence from the HAPIN Trial. ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2020 Oct 26; 2020(1).  View on PubMed
  16. A.K. Quinn, L.M. Thompson, A. Pillarisetti, D.L. WIlson, M. Howard, Y. Chen, L. Elon, A. Díaz Artiga, T. Gurusamy, G. Rosa, K. Balakrishnan, J.P. McCracken, J.L. Peel, W. Checkley, J.P. Rosenthal, T.F. Clasen, S.A. Harvey, K.N. Williams, -. on behalf of HAPIN investigators. Monitoring of traditional stove use in the context of a clean fuel (liquefied petroleum gas, LPG) intervention trial in Guatemala, India, Peru, and Rwanda. ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2020 Oct 26; 2020(1).  View on PubMed
  17. Grajeda LM, Thompson LM, Arriaga W, Canuz E, Omer SB, Sage M, Azziz-Baumgartner E, Bryan JP, McCracken JP. Effectiveness of Gas and Chimney Biomass Stoves for Reducing Household Air Pollution Pregnancy Exposure in Guatemala: Sociodemographic Effect Modifiers. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 10 22; 17(21).  View on PubMed
  18. Williams KN, Thompson LM, Sakas Z, Hengstermann M, Quinn A, Díaz-Artiga A, Thangavel G, Puzzolo E, Rosa G, Balakrishnan K, Peel J, Checkley W, Clasen TF, Miranda JJ, Rosenthal JP, Harvey SA, Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial Investigators, HAPIN Investigators. Designing a comprehensive behaviour change intervention to promote and monitor exclusive use of liquefied petroleum gas stoves for the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial. BMJ Open. 2020 09 29; 10(9):e037761.  View on PubMed
  19. Díaz-Vásquez MA, Díaz-Manchay RJ, León-Jiménez FE, Thompson LM, Troncoso K, Failoc-Rojas VE. Adoption and impact of improved cookstoves in Lambayeque, Peru, 2017. Glob Health Promot. 2020 12; 27(4):123-130.  View on PubMed
  20. Clasen T, Checkley W, Peel JL, Balakrishnan K, McCracken JP, Rosa G, Thompson LM, Barr DB, Clark ML, Johnson MA, Waller LA, Jaacks LM, Steenland K, Miranda JJ, Chang HH, Kim DY, McCollum ED, Davila-Roman VG, Papageorghiou A, Rosenthal JP, HAPIN Investigators. Design and Rationale of the HAPIN Study: A Multicountry Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Effect of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Stove and Continuous Fuel Distribution. Environ Health Perspect. 2020 04; 128(4):47008.  View on PubMed

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