A selection of my publications is below. A complete list can be found
at my Google
Scholar profile.
Bicycle
infrastructure and the incidence rate of crashes with cars: A
case-control study with Strava data in Atlanta
Michael Garber,
Kari Watkins, Dana Flanders, Michael Kramer, Felipe Lobelo, Steve
Mooney, David Ederer, Lauren McCullough. Journal of
Transport & Health. 2023. (full
text)
Have
paved trails and protected bike lanes led to more bicycling in Atlanta?
A generalized synthetic-control analysis
Michael Garber, Dana
Flanders, Kari Watkins, Felipe Lobelo, Michael Kramer, Lauren
McCullough. Epidemiology. 2022. (full
text) (video
abstract)
Precision
and Weighting of Effects Estimated by the Generalized Synthetic Control
and Related Methods: The Case of Medicaid Expansion
Michael
Garber. Epidemiology. 2024. (code
and online appendix)
A
definition of the causal effect of a political party’s nominee on the
U.S. general presidential election using counterfactual response
types
Michael Garber, Lindsay Collin, Dana Flanders.
Annals of Epidemiology. 2020. (full
text)
Is
the Smog Lifting? Causal Inference in Environmental Epidemiology
Dana Flanders, Michael Garber. Epidemiology.
2019. (full
text)
The
Authors Respond
Dana Flanders, Michael Garber.
Epidemiology. 2019.
Parking
and Public Health
Michael Garber, Tarik Benmarhnia, Jacob Mason,
Emily Morales-Zamora, David Rojas-Rueda. Current
Environmental Health Reports. 2025
The epidemiologic
case for urban health: conceptualizing and measuring the magnitude of
challenges and potential benefits
Michael Garber, Tarik
Benmarhnia, Audrey de Nazelle, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, David Rojas-Rueda.
F1000 Research. 2024 (under open peer
review)
Greening
urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can
reduce premature mortality
Michael Garber, Tarik Benmarhnia,
Weiqi Zhou, Pierpaolo Mudu, David Rojas-Rueda.
Communications Earth & Environment.
2024
Is home
where the heat is? comparing residence-based with mobility-based
measures of heat exposure in San Diego, California
Michael
Garber, Anaïs Teyton, Marta Jankowska, Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar, David
Rojas-Rueda, Antony Barja-Ingaruca, Tarik Benmarhnia.
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental
Epidemiology. 2024
Impact
of native-plants policy scenarios on premature mortality in Denver: A
quantitative health impact assessment
Michael Garber, Michael
Guidi, Jennifer Bousselot, Tarik Benmarhnia, Daniel Dean, David
Rojas-Rueda. Environment International.
2023
On
selection bias in comparison measures of smartphone-generated population
mobility: an illustration of no-bias conditions with a commercial data
source
Michael Garber, Katie Labgold, Michael Kramer.
Annals of Epidemiology. 2022. (full
text)
At-risk-measure
sampling in case-control studies with aggregated data
Michael
Garber, Lauren McCullough, Steve Mooney, Michael Kramer, Kari Watkins,
Felipe Lobelo, Dana Flanders. Epidemiology.
2021. (Winner of 2022 Rothman
Prize)
Comparing
bicyclists who use smartphone apps to record rides with those who do
not: Implications for representativeness and selection
bias
Michael Garber, Kari Watkins, Michael Kramer.
Journal of Transport & Health. 2019. (full
text)
Sampling
and Sampling Frames in Big Data Epidemiology
Steve Mooney,
Michael Garber. Current Epidemiology Reports.
2019. (full
text)
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