Department

Environmental and Occupational Health

Education

• 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

Background

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.

Please visit the Capone Lab Website here.

Selected Publications

Articles

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.