B.Eng., Chemical Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology 2013
M.S., Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology 2020
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology 2020

Capone Lab

Welcome to the Capone Lab at Indiana University-Bloomington. We are based in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the School of Public Health. Using tools from engineering, epidemiology, and environmental microbiology we investigate the problems affecting low-income individuals and aim to improve public health in the communities where these people live. Our research focuses on the three pillars of public health engineering:

• Public health surveillance using fecal waste streams;
• Assessing the fate and transport of fecal contamination in the environment;
• Predicting public health outcomes using quantitative microbial risk assessment.

Capone, D.; Bivins, A.; Brown, J. Producing Ratio Measures of Effect with Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment. Risk Analysis. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13972.

Capone, D.; Berendes, D.; Cumming, O.; Holcomb, D.; Knee, J.; Konstantinidis, K. T.; Levy, K.; Nalá, R.; Risk, B. B.; Stewart, J.; Brown, J. Impact of an Urban Sanitation Intervention on Enteric Pathogen Detection in Soils. Environmental Science and Technology. 2021, 55 (14), 9989–10000. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c02168.

Knee, J.; Sumner, T.; Adriano, Z.; Anderson, C.; Bush, F.; Capone, D.; Casmo, V.; Holcomb, D. A.; Kolsky, P.; MacDougall, A.; Molotkova, E.; Braga, J. M.; Russo, C.; Schmidt, W. P.; Stewart, J.; Zambrana, W.; Zuin, V.; Nalá, R.; Cumming, O.; Brown, J. Effects of an Urban Sanitation Intervention on Childhood Enteric Infection and Diarrhea in Maputo, Mozambique: A Controlled before-and-after Trial. Elife 2021, 10. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62278.

Capone, D.; Chigwechokha, P.; de los Reyes III, F.; Holm, R.; Risk, B.; Tilley, E.; Brown, J. Impact of sampling depth on enteric pathogen detection in pit-latrines. PLoS NTDs, 2021, 55 (3), 1941–1952. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c06972.

Capone, D.; Bivins, A.; Cumming, O.; Knee, J.; Nala, R.; Brown, J. A quantitative microbial risk assessment of pediatric infections attributable to ingestion of fecally contaminated domestic soils in low-income urban Maputo, Mozambique. Environmental Science and Technology 2021, 55 (3), 1941–1952. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c06972.

Capone, D.; Berendes, D.; Cumming, O.; Knee, J.; Nalá, R.; Risk, B. B.; Stauber, C.; Zhu, K.; Brown, J. Analysis of Fecal Sludges Reveals Common Enteric Pathogens in Urban Maputo, Mozambique. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 2020, 7 (12), 889–895. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00610.

Capone, D.; Cumming, O.; Nichols, D.; Brown, J. Water and Sanitation in Urban America, 2017-2019. Am. J. Public Health 2020, 110 (10), 1567–1572. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305833.

Capone, D.; Buxton, H.; Cumming, O.; Dreibelbis, R.; Knee, J.; Nalà, R.; Ross, I.; Brown, J. Impact of an Intervention to Improve Pit Latrine Emptying Practices in Low Income Urban Neighborhoods of Maputo, Mozambique. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 2020, 226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2020.113480.

Capone, D.; Ferguson, A.; Gribble, M. O.; Brown, J. Open Defecation Sites, Unmet Sanitation Needs, and Potential Sanitary Risks in Atlanta Georgia 2017-2018. American Journal of Public Health 2018, 108 (9), 1238–1240. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304531.