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Urban air and noise pollution in sub-Saharan Africa: A study of prenatal exposures, birth outcomes, and sleep disturbances in infants

Principal Investigator: 
Raphael E Arku
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst

This New Investigator Award study seeks to examine associations of long-term maternal exposures to PM2.5, NO2, and environmental noise with adverse birth outcomes in Accra, Ghana. The investigators also seek to determine the effect of these exposures on the risk of lower respiratory infections in infants.

Funded under
RFA 19-2 Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award
Status: 
Ongoing
Abstract

The abstract for the poster presented at the 2024 HEI Annual Conference can be found here.