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Special Issue of Inhalation Toxicology for Air Pollution and Health: Bridging the Gap from Sources-to-Health Outcomes
Citation:
SOLOMON, P. A. Special Issue of Inhalation Toxicology for Air Pollution and Health: Bridging the Gap from Sources-to-Health Outcomes . INHALATION TOXICOLOGY. Informa Healthcare USA, New York, NY, 22(S2):1-5, (2010).
Impact/Purpose:
The National Exposure Research Laboratory′s (NERL) Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (HEASD) conducts research in support of EPA′s mission to protect human health and the environment. HEASD′s research program supports Goal 1 (Clean Air) and Goal 4 (Healthy People) of EPA′s strategic plan. More specifically, our division conducts research to characterize the movement of pollutants from the source to contact with humans. Our multidisciplinary research program produces Methods, Measurements, and Models to identify relationships between and characterize processes that link source emissions, environmental concentrations, human exposures, and target-tissue dose. The impact of these tools is improved regulatory programs and policies for EPA.
Description:
Pollution and Health: Bridging the Gap from Sources to Health Outcomes”, an international specialty conference by the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) (http://aaar.2010specialty.org/), provided one such opportunity for these interactions. The Conference was organized and chaired by Drs. Paul A. Solomon (U.S. EPA) and Maria Costantini (HEI) and was designed to help disseminate and integrate results from scientific studies that cut across the range of air pollution and health-related disciplines of the source-to-health effects paradigm (NRC, 1998). Conference objectives are listed in Table 1. The Conference was multipollutant, focusing across the five key science areas of the NRC source-to-health effects paradigm: sources, atmospheric sciences, exposure, dose, and health effects. Eight key policy-relevant science questions that integrated across various parts of the science areas formed the basis of the meeting. A ninth question addressing policy implications of the results was also included. The science questions are listed in Table 2. Abstracts to all presentations can be found at http://aaar.2010specialty.org/secondary.php?section=Conference_Program. The above conference was AAAR’s third international specialty conference and extends the findings presented at AAAR’s first specialty conference “Particulate Matter: Atmospheric Sciences, Exposure, and the Fourth Colloquium on PM and Human Health,” Pittsburgh, PA, 2003 (Davisdon et al. 2005). Results from the 2010 AAAR Air Pollution and Health conference are being published in five special journal issues (Inhalation Toxicology, this issue; Aerosol Science and Technology; Atmospheric Environment; Environmental Health Perspectives; and Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health). These five special issues should be published by Spring 2011. A sixth issue with papers addressing each of the science questions is in process in Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, which should be published later in 2011.
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