Grantee Research Project Results
Research Coordination Core
EPA Grant Number: R827353C015Subproject: this is subproject number 015 , established and managed by the Center Director under grant R827353
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
Center: Health Effects Institute (2015 - 2020)
Center Director: Greenbaum, Daniel S.
Title: Research Coordination Core
Investigators: Dockery, Douglas W. , Speizer, Frank E. , Koutrakis, Petros
Institution: Harvard University
EPA Project Officer: Chung, Serena
Project Period: June 1, 1999 through May 31, 2005 (Extended to May 31, 2006)
RFA: Airborne Particulate Matter (PM) Centers (1999) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Particulate Matter , Air Quality and Air Toxics , Air
Objective:
The Research Coordination Core was responsible for defining, coordinating, and integrating all research conducted as part of the Center and was led by Dr. Dockery. A key aspect of the Center was its intention to have an ongoing and continual evaluation of research needs and priorities. To achieve this goal, the Center included a rigorous and multi-phased research coordination and evaluation process, which was developed based on our experience from over twenty years of multi-disciplinary collaborations in air pollution health effects. This coordination and evaluation process drew upon experts from a wide range of disciplines at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Medical School, as well as experts from outside agencies, universities, and other organizations that provided focused and timely responses to current and evolving questions about airborne particulate matter (PM). Specifically, experts from six internal and external groups contributed to the research coordination and evaluation process and determined the direction and coordination of PM research that was conducted at the Center. These groups included: the National Research Council (NRC), the External Science Advisory Committee, the consortium of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Airborne Particulate Matter Centers, the Working Group on PM Exposures and Health Effects, the Working Group on Research Strategy Evaluation, and the Steering Committee at the center at Harvard. Their contributions to the research coordination and evaluation process are described below.
Publications and Presentations:
Publications have been submitted on this subproject: View all 10 publications for this subproject | View all 207 publications for this centerJournal Articles:
Journal Articles have been submitted on this subproject: View all 10 journal articles for this subproject | View all 204 journal articles for this centerSupplemental Keywords:
RFA, Health, Scientific Discipline, PHYSICAL ASPECTS, Air, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, HUMAN HEALTH, Air Pollution Monitoring, particulate matter, Toxicology, air toxics, Environmental Chemistry, Epidemiology, Air Pollution Effects, Risk Assessments, Susceptibility/Sensitive Population/Genetic Susceptibility, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Monitoring, Health Effects, Physical Processes, Children's Health, genetic susceptability, indoor air, Atmospheric Sciences, Biology, Risk Assessment, particulates, microbiology, ambient air quality, chemical exposure, interindividual variability, molecular epidemiology, sensitive populations, monitoring, cardiopulmonary responses, human health effects, ambient air monitoring, indoor exposure, health risks, air pollutants, exposure and effects, PM 2.5, ambient air, biological response, ambient measurement methods, pulmonary disease, developmental effects, respiratory disease, exposure, lead, children, Human Health Risk Assessment, air pollution, particle exposure, biological mechanism , ambient monitoring, inhalation, pulmonary, assessment of exposure, susceptibility, particulate exposure, cardiopulmonary response, ambient particle health effects, human exposure, environmental health hazard, inhalation toxicology, human susceptibility, indoor air quality, inhaled particles, cardiopulmonary, air quality, respiratory, cardiovascular disease, genetic susceptibility, human health riskProgress and Final Reports:
Main Center Abstract and Reports:
R827353 Health Effects Institute (2015 - 2020) Subprojects under this Center: (EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R827353C001 Assessing Human Exposures to Particulate and Gaseous Air Pollutants
R827353C002 Quantifying Exposure Error and its Effect on Epidemiological
Studies
R827353C003 St. Louis Bus, Steubenville and Atlanta Studies
R827353C004 Examining Conditions That Predispose Towards
Acute Adverse Effects of Particulate Exposures
R827353C005 Assessing Life-Shortening Associated with Exposure to
Particulate Matter
R827353C006 Investigating Chronic Effects of Exposure to Particulate
Matter
R827353C007 Determining the Effects of Particle Characteristics on Respiratory Health of Children
R827353C008 Differentiating the Roles of Particle Size, Particle Composition,
and Gaseous Co-Pollutants on Cardiac Ischemia
R827353C009 Assessing Deposition of Ambient Particles in the Lung
R827353C010 Relating Changes in Blood Viscosity, Other Clotting Parameters,
Heart Rate, and Heart Rate Variability to Particulate and Criteria Gas Exposures
R827353C011 Studies of Oxidant Mechanisms
R827353C012 Modeling Relationships Between Mobile Source Particle Emissions and Population Exposures
R827353C013 Toxicological Evaluation of Realistic Emissions of Source Aerosols (TERESA) Study
R827353C014 Identifying the Physical and Chemical Properties of Particulate Matter Responsible for the Observed Adverse Health Effects
R827353C015 Research Coordination Core
R827353C016 Analytical and Facilities Core
R827353C017 Technology Development and Transfer Core
The 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.
Project Research Results
10 journal articles for this subproject
Main Center: R827353
207 publications for this center
204 journal articles for this center