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A full list of publications produced by the E2H2 team can be found here.

Energy Insecurity Essential Reading List

  1. Shumway, E., Hernández, D., Shastry, V., Krasniqi, Q., Austin, A., Gerrard, M. 2024. “Addressing Energy Insecurity Upstream: Equity in Electric Utility Ratemaking and Rate Design” Energy Law Journal.
  2. Carrión, D., ^Hernández, D. 2024. “Heatwaves and Hardships: Enhancing the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to Mitigate Extreme Heat and Energy Insecurity” Electricity Journal.
  3. Lane, K., Daouda, M., Yuan, A., Olson, C. Smalls-Mantley, L., Siegel, E., ^Hernández, D. 2024. “Readiness for a clean energy future: Prevalence, perceptions, and barriers to adoption of electric stoves and solar panels in New York City.” Energy Policy.
  4. Sprague, N., Fan, I., Dandeneau M., Hernandez Perez, J.F., Birmingham, J., De Los Santos, D., Riddick, M., Meltzer, G., Siegel, E.L., ^Hernández, D. 2024. “StreetTalk: exploring energy insecurity in New York City using a novel street intercept interview and social media dissemination method” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature)
  5. Siegel, E. L., Lane, K., Yuan, A., Smalls-Mantey, L. A., Laird, J., Olson, C., & Hernández, D. (2024). Energy Insecurity Indicators Associated With Increased Odds Of Respiratory, Mental Health, And Cardiovascular Conditions: Study examines energy insecurity and health conditions. Health Affairs, 43(2), 260-268.
  6. Hernández, D. 2023. “Energy Insecurity and Health: America’s Hidden Hardship. ” Health Affairs Health Policy Brief (Invited). DOI: 10.1377/hpb20230518.472953
  7. Simes, M., Rahman, T., & Hernández, D. (2023). Vigilant conservation: How energy insecure households navigate cumulative and administrative burdens. Energy Research & Social Science, 101, 103092.
  8. Hernández, D., & Laird, J. (2022). Surviving a shut-off: US households at greatest risk of utility disconnections and how they cope. American Behavioral Scientist, 66(7), 856-880.
  9. Jessel, S., Sawyer, S. and Hernandez, D. (2019) “Energy, Poverty and Health in Climate Change: A Comprehensive Review of an Emerging Literature” Frontiers in Public Health. Link
  10. Hernández, D., Siegel E. (2019) “Energy Insecurity and its Ill Health Effects: A Community  Perspective in New York City” Energy Research and Social Science. pp. 78-83
  11. *Hernández, D. (2016). “Understanding ‘energy insecurity’ and why it matters to health.” Social  Science & Medicine, 167, 1-10.
  12. Bird, S., & Hernández, D. (2012). Policy options for the split incentive: Increasing energy efficiency for low-income renters. Energy policy, 48, 506-514.

Housing and Health Essential Reading List

  1. Hernández, D. (2024). Prisms of Possibility: Biographically situated insights on the transformative potential of sustainable affordable housing. Real Estate Economics. 
  2. Swope, C.; Hernández, D., and Cushing, L. “The relationship of historical redlining with present-day neighborhood environmental and health outcomes: A scoping review and conceptual model” Journal of Urban Health (2022): 1-25.
  3. Swope, C and Hernández, D. (2019) “Housing as a Determinant of Health Equity: A Conceptual Model” Social Science and Medicine.
  4. Hernández, D., Swope, C. B., Azuogu, C., Siegel, E., & Giovenco, D. P. (2019). ‘If I pay rent, I’m gonna smoke’: Insights on the social contract of smokefree housing policy in affordable housing settings. Health & place, 56, 106-117.
  5. Hernández, D., Chang, D., Hutchinson, C., Hill, E., Almonte, A., Burns, R., Shepard, P., Gonzalez, I., Reissig, N. and Evans, D. (2018) “Public Housing on the Periphery: Vulnerable Residents and Depleted Resilience Reserves post-Hurricane Sandy.” Journal of Urban Health pp.1-13.