New State of Global Air special report on air quality and health in Southeast Europe

April 26, 2022

A new report from Health Effects Institute’s Global Health program highlights air quality and its health impacts for nine countries, including, Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, and Slovenia.

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Jane Warren Trainee Conference Award recipients announced

April 13, 2022

HEI is excited to showcase the work of the 2022 Jane Warren Trainee Conference Award winners at the Annual Conference in Washington D.C., taking place June 26-28, 2022.

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Research Committee welcomes expert in exposure assessment

April 11, 2022

The HEI Board of Directors has appointed Ana María Rule of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to the Research Committee.

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Virtual Workshop on Health Applications for Satellite-Derived Air Quality: Opportunities and Potential Pitfalls

This workshop series identified opportunities for health application research using new and expected satellite remote sensing data and potential pitfalls to avoid in those applications. 

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Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator for 2021 announced

March 10, 2022

Lucas Henneman, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, has received an HEI Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award.

 

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HEI's State of Global Air releases two special reports

March 1, 2022

HEI’s Global Health program has released two new special reports that provide detailed data on air quality for every country in the world, as measured against the WHO’s new Air Quality Guidelines.

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New study examines effects of air pollution on children’s brain development

February 1, 2022

A new study published by HEI examines whether early life air pollution exposure affects brain outcomes, focusing on brain structural and functional measures in children in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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New low-level air pollution exposure report examines risk of mortality in older Americans

This webinar provided new results from an HEI study examining the risk of mortality associated with exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations in a cohort of 68.5 million older Americans. 

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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.

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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.

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