Applications for HEI's Rosenblith Award are now being accepted!

December 15, 2022

Health Effects Institute is excited to announce a new funding opportunity: RFA 22-1, the Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award. We encourage creative, new investigators conducting research on the health effects of air pollution to apply.

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Fellowship applications are now being accepted!

December 9, 2022

The Health Effects Institute is excited to launch a new paid summer fellowship program! The program, which provides a mentor for each fellow, encourages undergraduate students from backgrounds underrepresented in the environmental health sciences to pursue research in this area.

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Study aims to better understand air pollutant concentrations near busy roads

August 30, 2022

Exposure to traffic-related air pollution, especially at the higher levels occurring in cities, has been associated with adverse health effects such as childhood asthma, impaired lung function, and cardiovascular disease.

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Comprehensive new report details two major air pollutants and related health impacts in more than 7,000 cities

August 16, 2022

The world’s biggest cities and urban areas face some of the worst air quality on the planet, according to a new report published by HEI. The report, Air Quality and Health in Cities, released by HEI’s State of Global Air Initiative, provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of air pollution and global health impacts for more than 7,000 cities around the world, focusing on two of the most harmful pollutants; fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2).

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Webinar: Health Risks from Low-level Air Pollution Exposure in Canada

In this webinar, HEI will shared the results from its recently published report, Mortality–Air Pollution Associations in Low-Exposure Environments (MAPLE): Phase 2, by Dr. Michael Brauer from The University of British Columbia and his colleagues.

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New Canadian study reports health effects at very low air pollution levels

July 13, 2022

A comprehensive new HEI study examining potential health risks from low levels of air pollution exposure in millions of Canadian citizens reports increased risks of mortality, including at the lowest levels of exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5), levels tha

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Detailed review finds strong links between adverse health effects and traffic pollution

June 16, 2022

A comprehensive new scientific review released today finds growing confidence in the links between several adverse health effects and traffic-related air pollution (TRAP). The review, the largest of its type to date, was conducted by a panel of thirteen renowned experts who evaluated 353 scientific reports published between 1980 and 2019 on traffic pollution and related health effects.

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HEI Traffic Review Webinar: Health Effects of Traffic-Related Air Pollution

In this webinar, HEI presented the findings of its 2022 critical review on the health effects of traffic-related air pollution, which is the largest systematic effort to date to evaluate the epidemiological evidence regarding the associations between long-term exposure to TRAP and selected adverse health outcomes. A video recording and slides from the webinar are available.

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State of Global Air Special Report on air quality and health in Bulgaria

June 10, 2022

A new report from Health Effects Institute’s Global Health program, Trends in Air Quality and Health in Bulgaria highlights air quality and its health impacts for Bulgaria and is part of HEI's ongoing series of State of Global Air special reports.  

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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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