A5045442194- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Noise Effects and Management
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Health disparities and outcomes
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Regional Development and Management Studies
- Disaster Response and Management
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Global Health Care Issues
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Latin American Urban Studies
- International Development and Aid
- Global Trade and Competitiveness
Climate Central
2021-2022
University of California, Berkeley
2011-2017
Faculty of Public Health
2013
University of California System
2012
Worldwatch Institute
2007
In the Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) done as part of Global Burden Disease project (GBD-2010), global and regional burdens household air pollution (HAP) due to use solid cookfuels, were estimated along with 60+ other risk factors. This article describes how HAP CRA was framed; exposures modeled; diseases judged have sufficient evidence for inclusion; meta-analyses exposure-response modeling estimate relative risks. We explore relationships factors: ambient pollution, smoking, secondhand...
Background: Approximately 2.8 billion people cook with solid fuels. Research has focused on the health impacts of indoor exposure to fine particulate pollution. Here, for 2010 Global Burden Disease project (GBD 2010), we evaluated impact household cooking fuels regional population-weighted ambient PM2.5 (particulate matter ≤ 2.5 μm) pollution (APM2.5).Objectives: We estimated proportion and concentrations APM2.5 attributable (PM2.5-cook) years 1990, 2005, in 170 countries, associated ill...
To improve air quality, knowledge of the sources and locations pollutant emissions is critical. However, for many global cities, no previous estimates exist how much exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), largest environmental cause mortality, caused by within city vs. outside its boundaries. We use Intervention Model Air Pollution (InMAP) global-through-urban reduced complexity quality model with a high-resolution, inventory quantify contribution source type location 96 cities. Among...
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While ambitious carbon reduction policies are needed to avoid dangerous levels of climate change, the costs these can be balanced by wide ranging health benefits for local communities. Cities, responsible ~70% world's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and home a growing majority population, offer enormous opportunities both action improvement. We aim review current state knowledge on key pathways leading from mitigation human benefits, evaluate our ability quantify cities around world. For...
As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, growing populations are exposed to poor ambient air quality and at risk of associated health outcomes. Urban is affected both by local sources pollution outside city borders. Policy-makers who develop policies need know whether it most effective focus on or spend resources fostering larger regional management cooperation. Identifying fraction exposure from emissions as a function distance critical element design. We estimate burden with fine...
Cities emit the majority of greenhouse gas emissions globally and are increasingly committing to aggressive mitigation actions. also experiencing poor—and in some cases worsening—air quality, contributing large disease burdens for adults children. Integrated planning frameworks can help cities leverage prioritize measures that achieve climate, air health benefits simultaneously. We developed applied an integrated climate action process includes utilizing Pathways-AQ, a new assessment tool,...
Over the span of just a few weeks in fall 2005, major disasters devastated southern United States, Central America, and Pakistan/India, dominating international headlines. These events-less than year after the massive Indian Ocean tsunami-provide dramatic evidence devastation that nature’s fury is capable inflicting.
In financial capitals across the world, brokers are hard at work trading a key commodity of twenty-first century: carbon credits. These allowances or offsets that represent quantity carbon dioxide (CO2) or other greenhouse gas (GHG) measured in tons equivalent.1
Many actions to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) in cities have benefits for environmental quality, public health, and equity. These local immediate “co-benefits” can include cleaner air, expanded green space, improved physical activity, reduced noise. However, progress incorporating co-benefits assessments into climate mitigation planning has been limited. Here, we capitalized on the new availability of action plans (CAPs) from dozens C40 explore stated role equity urban GHG planning....
Welcome to Annals of Global Health,Annals Health is a peer-reviewed, fully open access, online journal dedicated publishing high quality articles all aspects global health. The journal's mission advance health, promote research, and foster the prevention treatment disease worldwide. Its goals are improve health well-being people, equity, wise stewardship earth's environment. latest impact factor 3.64.Annals supported by Program for Public Common Good at Boston College. It was founded in 1934...
Background: Incomplete combustion of solid fuels for household heating is a significant source health-damaging fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and climate forcing black carbon, particularly in temperate areas during winter. With 3.2 million deaths per year attributable to ambient PM2.5 (APM2.5), better understanding the contribution specific sources, including heating, needed. Recent work has shown that globally about 15% APM2.5 emissions are due cooking with fuels; this proportion much...