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Introduction: Addressing Air Pollution and Health Science Questions to Inform Science and Policy
Citation:
Solomon, P. Introduction: Addressing Air Pollution and Health Science Questions to Inform Science and Policy. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health. Springer Netherlands, , Netherlands, 5(2):149-150, (2012).
Impact/Purpose:
The National Exposure Research Laboratory′s (NERL′s) 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:
This special issue of Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health (AQAH) is the sixth and final in a series of special journal issues (Solomon 2010, 2011a, b; Solomon et al. 2011; Solomon 2012) associated with the 2010 Air Pollution and Heath Conference: Bridging the Gap between Sources and Health Outcomes (Solomon et al. 2012). The conference was based on a series of eight policy relevant science questions (SQ1 – SQ8), and one policy question (SQ9) (see Table 1). The policy question integrated across the source-to-health effects continuum (NRC 1998). Nine sets of plenary speakers were asked to address the questions listed in Table 1 in their presentations at the conference and then to present a more comprehensive survey of the vast literature on their topics in the papers presented within this issue. The journal articles in this issue represent a 'snap shot' in time and are not comprehensive reviews of the literature, but their strength is collectively drawn from the series, which clearly advances the science as indicated by the conference theme, and begins to ‘bridge the gap between air pollution sources and health outcomes’. Three science questions were not addressed (SQ-2, SQ-3, and SQ-5) but information on these topics can be found in the series of EPA's integrated science assessments (http://www.epa.gov/ncea/isa/).
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