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Energy Insecurity Essential Reading List

*Essential Readings in bold

  1. Do, V., Yuan, A., Lane, K., Smalls Mantey, L., Siegel, E., Olson, C., Daouda, M., Casey, J., ^Hernández, D. 2025. A cross-sectional study characterizing the prevalence of utility service outages across demographic characteristics and health correlates in New York City. Environmental Epidemiology [In Press]
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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)
  6. Daouda, M., Carforo, A., Miller, H., Ventrella, J., Tan, Y.A., Feliciano, M., Tryner, J., Hallward-Driemeier, A., Chillrud, S., Commane, R. Hernández, D., Johnson, M., and Jack, D. 2024. “Out of Gas, In with Justice: Findings from a gas-to-induction pilot in low-income housing in NYC.” Energy Research & Social Science, 116, p.103662.
  7. Flores, N. M., Hernández, D., Fahey, C. A., Portis, L. J., & Casey, J. A. (2024). Assessing the Burden of Electrical, Elevator, Heat, Hot Water, and Water Service Interruptions in New York City Public Housing. Journal of Urban Health, 1-10.
  8. 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.
  9. Meltzer, G. Y., Factor-Litvak, P., Herbstman, J. B., Wylie, B. J., & Hernández, D. (2024). Indoor Temperature and Energy Insecurity: Implications for Prenatal Health Disparities in Extreme Heat Events. Environmental Health Perspectives, 132(3), 035001.
  10. Aditi Bansal, Casey Dean, Ellie Kahn, Daphany Rose Sanchez, Diana Hernández. 2024. “Shady Solar: Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to Residential Solar Adoption for Low-and Moderate-Income Homeowners in New York City” Front. Energy Res. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2024.1293291
  11. Lane, K., Smalls-Mantey, L., Hernández, D. et al. Extreme Heat and COVID-19 in New York City: An Evaluation of a Large Air Conditioner Distribution Program to Address Compounded Public Health Risks in Summer 2020. J Urban Health 100, 290–302 (2023).
  12. Diana Hernández, Qëndresa Krasniqi and Alexandra Peek. 2023. Energy Insecurity Fact Sheet. Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University.
  13. Nishi, Andrea, Diana Hernández and Michael Gerard. 2023. “Energy Insecurity Mitigation: The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and Other Low-Income Relief Programs in the US.” Information Guide. Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University.
  14. Hernández, D. 2023. “Energy Insecurity and Health: America’s Hidden Hardship. ” Health Affairs Health Policy Brief (Invited). DOI: 10.1377/hpb20230518.472953
  15. Simes, M., Rahman, T., & Hernández, D. (2023). Vigilant conservation: How energy insecure households navigate cumulative and administrative burdens. Energy Research & Social Science, 101, 103092.
  16. Simes, M., Khan, F., & Hernández, D. (2023). Energy Insecurity and Social Determinants of Health. In Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health (pp. 2119-2137). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  17. 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.
  18. Hernández, D., Yoon, L., & Simcock, N. (2022). Basing “energy justice” on clear terms: Assessing key terminology in pursuit of energy justice. Environmental Justice, 15(3), 127-138.
  19. Mango, M., Casey, J. A., & Hernández, D. (2021). Resilient Power: A home-based electricity generation and storage solution for the medically vulnerable during climate-induced power outages. Futures, 128, 102707.
  20. Yoon, L., & Hernandez, D. (2021). Energy, energy, read all about it: A thematic analysis of energy insecurity in the US mainstream media from 1980 to 2019. Energy Research & Social Science, 74, 101972.
  21. Lewis, J, Hernández, D and Geronimus, A. (2020) “Energy Efficiency as Energy Justice:  Addressing Racial Inequities through Investments in People and Places” Energy Efficiency
  22. Casey, J. A., Fukurai, M., Hernández, D., Balsari, S., & Kiang, M. V. (2020). Power outages and community health: a narrative review. Current environmental health reports, 7, 371-383.
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. Gould, C. F., Chillrud, S. N., Phillips, D., Perzanowski, M. S., & Hernández, D. (2018). Soot and the city: Evaluating the impacts of Clean Heat policies on indoor/outdoor air quality in New York City apartments. PloS one, 13(6), e0199783.
  26. Carrión, D., Lee, W. V., & Hernández, D. (2018). Residual inequity: assessing the unintended consequences of New York City’s clean heat transition. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(1), 117.
  27. *Hernández, D. (2016). “Understanding ‘energy insecurity’ and why it matters to health.” Social  Science & Medicine, 167, 1-10.
  28. Hernández, D., & Phillips, D. (2015). Benefit or burden? Perceptions of energy efficiency efforts among low-income housing residents in New York City. Energy research & social science, 8, 52-59.
  29. Hernández, D. (2015). Sacrifice along the energy continuum: a call for energy justice.  Environmental Justice, 8(4), 151-156.
  30. Hernández, D. (2013). Energy insecurity: A framework for understanding energy, the built environment, and health among vulnerable populations in the context of climate change. Am J Public Health, 103(4), e32-e34.
  31. Bird, S., & Hernández, D. (2012). Policy options for the split incentive: Increasing energy efficiency for low-income renters. Energy policy, 48, 506-514.
  32. Hernández, D. and Bird, S. (2010), Energy Burden and the Need for Integrated Low-Income Housing and Energy Policy. Poverty & Public Policy, 2: 5–25.

Housing and Health Essential Reading List

*Essential Readings in bold

  1. Garritsen HH, Khan F, Rozema AD, Navas-Acien A, ^Hernández D. 2024. Associations of smoke-free policies in multi-unit housing with smoking behavior and second-hand smoke exposure: A systematic review. Addiction. doi: 10.1111/add.16724.
  2. Hernández, D. (2024). Prisms of Possibility: Biographically situated insights on the transformative potential of sustainable affordable housing. Real Estate Economics. 
  3. Hernandez, D., Khan, F., Albert, D., Giovenco, D., Branas, C., Valeri, L., & Navas-Acien, A. (2023). A randomized control trial to support smoke-free policy compliance in public housing. Trials, 24(1), 551.
  4. 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.
  5. Hernández, D. “Climate Justice Starts at Home: Building Resilient Housing to Reduce Disparate Impacts from Climate Change in Residential Settings.” American journal of public health 112.1 (2022): 66-68.
  6. Hernández, D., Harned, E., Yomogida, M., Attinson, D., Giovenco, D. P., Aidala, A., … & Howard, J. M. (2021). A New Lease on Life in Public Housing. Cityscape, 23(2), 67-94.
  7. Moore, T., Lazzeroni, S., & Hernández, D. (2021). Resident Engagement in the Context of the Rental Assistance Demonstration Program. Cityscape, 23(2), 47-66.
  8. Musa, G. J., Cheslack-Postava, K., Svob, C., Hernández, D., Tang, H., Duque-Villa, Y., … & Hoven, C. W. (2021). Mental Health of High-Risk Urban Youth: The Housing Subsidies Paradox. Race and Social Problems, 1-12.
  9. Hernández, D., Moore, T., Lazzeroni, S., & Nguyen, U. S. (2019). “The ‘Projects’ Are Nice Now”: Resident Perspectives on the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Program.” Housing Policy Debate, 29(6), 853-864
  10. Swope, C and Hernández, D. (2019) “Housing as a Determinant of Health Equity: A Conceptual Model” Social Science and Medicine.
  11. 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.
  12. Hernández, D. (2019) “Housing-based Interventions: Harnessing the Social Utility of Housing to Promote Health” American Journal of Public Health [Special Issue on ‘Innovations in Health Promotion’] Feb;109(S2): S135-S136.
  13. Aratani, Y., Lazzeroni, S., Brooks-Gunn, J., and Hernández, D. (2018) “Housing Subsidies and Early Childhood Development” Housing Policy Debate.
  14. 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.
  15. Hernández, D. (2016). “‘Extra oomph:’ addressing housing disparities through Medical Legal Partnership interventions.” Housing Studies, 31(7), 871-890.
  16. Hernández, D. (2016). “Affording housing at the expense of health: Exploring the Housing and Neighborhood Strategies of Poor Families.” Journal of Family Issues, 37(7), 921-946.