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Predictive, Source-Oriented Modeling and Measurements to Evaluate Community Exposures to Air Pollutants and Noise from Unconventional Oil and Gas Development

Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz
David Allen
Pawel Misztal
Elizabeth Matsui
Roger Peng
Yosuke Kimura
et al.
2026
Research Report 240
Air Toxics
Ozone & Oxidants
Particulate Matter
Energy

This report presents a study led by Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz at The University of Texas at Austin. Hildebrandt Ruiz and colleagues examined population exposures to air emissions and noise in a major US oil and gas region and developed a model for use in multiple regions to predict population exposures and assess the effectiveness of interventions intended to mitigate emissions to the air. 

Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Birth Weight: The Roles of Noise, Placental Function, Green Space, Physical Activity, and Socioeconomic Status (FRONTIER)

Payam Dadvand
Jordi Sunyer
Ioar Rivas
Maria Dolores Gómez-Roig
Elisa Llurba
Maria Foraster
et al.
2026
Research Report 236
Air Pollution
Nitrogen Oxides
Multipollutant Mixtures
Particulate Matter
Traffic-related

This report presents a study led by co-principal investigators Payam Dadvand and Jordi Sunyer at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). Dadvand, Sunyer, and colleagues examined the effects of prenatal exposure to traffic-related air pollution on fetal growth and placental function in a newly established cohort of 1,080 women living in Barcelona, Spain.

Early-Life Air Pollution Exposure Is Associated with the Infant Gut Microbiome and Fecal Metabolome in the First Two Years of Life

Tanya L Alderete
Elizabeth A. Holzhausen
Donghai Liang
Roshonda B. Jones
Fredrick Lurmann
Michael I. Goran
et al.
2026
Research Report 237
Air Pollution
Nitrogen Oxides
Ozone & Oxidants
Particulate Matter
Traffic-related
Biological Methods

This report presents a study led by Tanya L. Alderete, a recipient of HEI’s 2019 Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award, at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. Alderete and colleagues examined whether prenatal or postnatal exposures to air pollution were associated with changes in the infant gut microbiome and fecal metabolome during the first 2 years of life.

Ambient Air Pollution and COVID-19 in California

Michael Kleeman
Claudia Nau
Jason Su
Deborah R. Young
Rebecca Butler
Lin-Syuan Yang
Christina Batteate
Sarah Eng
Richard T. Burnett
Michael Jerrett
2026
Research Report 238
Air Pollution
Nitrogen Oxides
Ozone & Oxidants
Particulate Matter
Traffic-related

This report presents a study led by Michael Kleeman at the University of California, Davis. Kleeman and colleagues evaluated associations between estimated outdoor air pollution concentrations and risk of COVID-19 disease, COVID-19 disease progression or recovery, deaths due to COVID-19, and long COVID- 19 conditions among a study population in Southern California.

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