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Final webinar in series on air pollution & health in Southeast Europe

January 13, 2022

Join us on February 2, 2022 (8:30 am - 10:30 am EST | 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm CET) for the final webinar in the series, "The Role of Scientific and Other Evidence in Informing Southeast European Regional and National Air Quality Legislation."

HEI issues request for Rosenblith Award applications

December 20, 2021

HEI has issued RFA 21-2, the Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award. This RFA solicits proposals from promising candidates at the assistant professor level or equivalent for research on air pollution and health.

New HEI report examines major sources of PM and impacts on global health

December 13, 2021

A new report published by HEI brings together for the first time comprehensive global estimates of the most common sources of fine particulate matter (PM) air pollution and its impacts on global health. Key findings in the report, Global Burden of Disease from Major Air Pollution Sources (GBD MAPS), show that PM exposure from the burning of fossil fuels contributed to more than one million deaths globally in 2017, with more than half of those coming from coal combustion. The burning of solid biofuels, such as wood for indoor heating and cooking, accounts for an additional 740,000 deaths.

HEI issues RFIQ to study health effects of air pollution in India

November 17, 2021

HEI has issued RFIQ 21-3, Studies of Air Pollution and Health Effects in India, to identify and fund scientific teams to conduct epidemiologic studies of exposure to air pollution and cardiovascular and respiratory disease or other relevant health outcomes in India.

New experts join HEI's Research and Review Committees

November 15, 2021

HEI’s Board of Directors recently approved the appointments of three distinguished scientists to the Research Committee and two to the Review Committee. In collaboration with HEI staff, these committees perform distinct and independent roles to ensure the quality of HEI’s research: to select and oversee research projects (Research Committee) and critically review results (Review Committee). 

Greenbaum appointed to EPA Clean Air Committee

October 26, 2021

HEI President Dan Greenbaum was appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC) this fall by EPA Administrator Michael Regan, along with several other new members. The CAAAC is a senior-level policy committee established in 1990 to advise EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation and the broader EPA on issues related to implementing the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.