A selection of my publications is below. A complete list can be found at my Google Scholar profile.

Bicycle infrastructure, bicycling volumes, and safety using high-resolution data

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)

Causal inference and policy evaluation

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.

Urban climate resilience and exposure measurement

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

Methods and principles for using mobile-device-generated data in epidemiologic studies

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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