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HEI launches three new studies on the effects of emissions-reductions policies on air quality and health for historically marginalized communities

October 17, 2024

HEI is pleased to announce three new studies funded under RFA 23-2, Assessing Changes in Exposures and Health Outcomes in Historically Marginalized and Environmentally Overburdened Communities from Air Quality Actions, Programs, or Other Interventions. This body of research will provide answers about whether recent air quality actions taken at the state and federal levels equitably improve emissions, air quality, and health for historically marginalized communities potentially affected by the growing goods and freight movement.

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HEI-funded research played important role in European Union’s adoption of new air quality standards to improve public health

October 15, 2024

The European Union’s (EU) revised Ambient Air Quality Directive sets new air quality standards for EU countries to achieve by 2030 for major pollutants to align more closely with the latest World Health Organization guidelines. Findings on low-level air pollution exposure, particularly the findings from an HEI-funded study of 28 million participants in Europe, played an important role in informing the new EU air quality standards

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New report on effects of diesel school bus replacements

October 11, 2024
Cover of Adar report

A new HEI report, Assessing the National Health, Education, and Air Quality Benefits of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s School Bus Rebate Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial Design, presents a study led by Sara Adar of the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.

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Ambient PM Health Effects Research Funding Opportunity

September 16, 2024

HEI is pleased to inform you of a new funding opportunity RFA 24-2: Insights into the Health Effects of Exposure to Low Concentrations of Particulate Matter. The RFA will focus on studies that can help to distinguish between potential sources of heterogeneity or to clarify the biological plausibility of PM health effects at low levels of ambient exposure.

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HEI publishes second large study on air pollution and COVID-19

September 13, 2024

HEI has published a new Research Report, Air Pollution in Relation to COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality: A Large Population-Based Cohort Study in Catalonia, Spain, which presents a study led by Cathryn Tonne of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health.

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New report on air pollution and childhood asthma risk

September 6, 2024

HEI has published a new Research Report, Birth Cohort Studies of Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution in Early Life and Development of Asthma in Children and Adolescents from Denmark. The study presented in the report, led by Marie Pedersen of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, examined children’s asthma in four Danish cohorts and focused on exposure to an array of air pollutants.

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