Grantee Research Project Results
2024 Progress Report: Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions on reducing wildfire smoke exposure and health risks in low-income hard-to-reach communities in California
EPA Grant Number: R840240Title: Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions on reducing wildfire smoke exposure and health risks in low-income hard-to-reach communities in California
Investigators: Wong-Parodi, Gabrielle , Cho, Seung-Hyun
Institution: Stanford University , RTI International
EPA Project Officer: Chung, Serena
Project Period: September 1, 2021 through April 28, 2025
Project Period Covered by this Report: September 1, 2023 through August 31,2024
Project Amount: $999,846
RFA: Interventions and Communication Strategies to Reduce Health Risks of Wildland Fire Smoke Exposures (2021) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Watersheds , Endocrine Disruptors , Environmental Engineering , Air Quality and Air Toxics , Wildfires
Objective:
The main goal of this project is to assess the effectiveness of technical and health risk communication interventions and their interaction with behavior in reducing wildland fire smoke exposures and associated health risks among low-income and non-English speaking communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Specific aims to achieve this goal are to: (1) test the effectiveness of these interventions in reducing exposure and health risks over time, (2) test how the effectiveness of different combinations of these interventions is moderated by behavior over time, and (3) test how and why behavior is affected by use of the app-delivered native language messaging over time.
Progress Summary:
Our accomplishments during this project perod include:
- Conducting Phase 3 (Full Scale Intervention).
- Administering an event-driven survey in response to the 2023 heat wave and annual surveys between January 26 – September 29, 2023, and April 19 – August 8, 2024.
- Receiving invaluable feedback from the Community Advisory Committee to improve and strengthen the overall project design, protocols, and data collection.
- Hosting an in-person event with study participants and our community partners on August 9, 2024 to further improve our understanding of participants’ experiences with natural hazards and participation in the study.
- Replicating the comparison study that we did for the pilot, in addition to surveying our comparison households (done in collaboration with PurpleAir).
Future Activities:
In the next reporting period, we plan to complete the full intervention study (Phase 3) including (1) intervention evaluation and (2) exit surveys. We will conduct a personal monitoring study to assess differences in air quality based on location.
Journal Articles on this Report : 2 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
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Herbert N, Beckman C, Cannedy C, Cao J, Cho S, Fisher S, Huang S, Kramer S, Lopez O, Lopez S, Ouyang D, Suckale J, Wulf-Saena V, Zhang Z, Wong-Parodi G. Improving adaptation to wildfire smoke and extreme heat in frontline communities:evidence from a community-engaged pilot study in the San Francisco Bay Area. Environmental Research Letters 2023;18(7):074026. |
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Wong-Parodi G. Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful. Nature Human Behaviour. 2022;6(12):1601-2. |
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Supplemental Keywords:
air sensor, particulate matter, exposure, personal monitoring, health effects, risk communication, community engagement, behavior change, native language messagingProgress and Final Reports:
Original AbstractThe perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.