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Air Pollution and Health: Bridging the Gap from Health Outcomes: Conference Summary
Citation:
SOLOMON, P. A., M. Costantini, T. J. Grahame, M. E. Gerlofs-Nijland, F. Cassee, A. G. RUSSELL, J. R. BROOK, P. K. HOPKE, G. HIDY, R. F. PHALEN, P. Saldiva, S. E. SARNAT, J. R. BALMES, I. TAGER, H. A. OZKAYNAK, S. Vedal, S. G. Wierman, AND D. L. COSTA. Air Pollution and Health: Bridging the Gap from Health Outcomes: Conference Summary. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health. Springer Netherlands, , Netherlands, 5(1):9-62, (2012).
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:
“Air Pollution and Health: Bridging the Gap from Sources to Health Outcomes,” an international specialty conference sponsored by the American Association for Aerosol Research, was held to address key uncertainties in our understanding of adverse health effects related to air pollution and to integrate and disseminate results from recent scientific studies that cut across a range of air pollution-related disciplines. The Conference addressed the science of air pollution and health within a multipollutant framework (herein “multipollutant” refers to gases and particulate matter mass, components, and physical properties), focusing on five key science areas: sources, atmospheric sciences, exposure, dose, and health effects. Eight key policy-relevant science questions integrated across various parts of the five science areas and a ninth question regarding findings that provide policy relevant insights served as the framework for the meeting. Results synthesized from this Conference provide new evidence, reaffirm past findings, and offer guidance for future research efforts that will continue to incrementally advance the science required for reducing uncertainties in linking sources, air pollutants, human exposure, and health effects. This paper summarizes the Conference findings organized around the science questions.
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