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Per- and polyfluoro alkyl substances (PFAS) are an environmentally persistent and high interest class of chemical pollutants with a rapidly expanding roster. High resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) has been a workhorse technique supporting non-targeted approaches to sample analy...

Wild rice is important the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for mental, physical, and spiritual health reasons. For that reason, the Band has undertaken a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) to characterize the impacts of potential wild rice loss if the Minnesota Pollution C...

In 1992, the EPA completed its risk assessment on <em>The Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders</em> and concluded that the widespread exposure to ETS in the United States presents a serious and substantial public health impact.<br><br>Mor...

We develop a causal inference framework to estimate the number of adverse health events prevented by a large-scale air quality regulation via changes in exposure to multiple pollutants. This approach is designed to analyze a regulation that brought about impacts on pollution in a...

New technology and wide access to the Internet have provided unprecedented opportunities for getting science to audiences rapidly and innovatively. Over 10 years ago, EPA began development of EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas), aiming to be on the forefront of using we...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a decision-making tool that accounts for multiple impacts across the life cycle of a product or service. This paper presents a conceptual framework to integrate human health impact assessment with risk screening approaches to extend LCA to include n...

This presentation provides an overview of Research Area 9 Output 4 products in SHC for the BOSC.

Scientific evidence spanning experimental and epidemiologic studies has shown that air pollution exposures can lead to a range of health effects. Quantitative approaches that allow for the estimation of the adverse health impacts attributed to air pollution enable researchers and...

Background: The Life Cycle Initiative, hosted at the United Nations Environment Programme, selected human toxicity impacts from exposure to chemical substances as an impact category that requires global guidance to overcome current assessment challenges. The initiative leadershi...

Outbreaks associated with exposure to treated recreational water can be caused by pathogens or chemicals in venues such as pools, hot tubs/spas, and interactive water play venues (i.e., water playgrounds). During 2000-2014, public health officials from 46 states and Puerto Rico r...

The presentation describes the public health impact of wildland fire smoke exposures, the strategies to minimize risk, and knowledge gaps that when filled, will help health officials better protect the public during wildland fires. The presentation highlights resources available ...

A growing body of literature supports that urban nature positively impacts health and wellbeing, yet underserved neighborhoods frequently exhibit a lack of equitable access to green space. The benefits one experiences in urban nature can be dependent on a person&rsquo;s preferenc...

Ozone exposure is associated with higher risk of asthma-related emergency department visits. The meteorological conditions that govern ozone concentration are projected to be more favorable to ozone formation over much of the United States due to continued climate change, even as...

While fine particulate matters are decreasing in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, the regional ozone (O3) shows an increasing trend that affects human health, leading to an urgent need for scientific understanding of source&ndash;receptor relationship between O3 and its precur...

We compared water and sanitation system options for a coastal community across selected sustainability metrics, including environmental impact (i.e., life cycle eutrophication potential, energy consumption, and global warming potential), equivalent annual cost, and local human he...

The City of Duluth is considering design alternatives for habitat restoration around Mud Lake, a bay on the St. Louis River. The project has been contentious, thus the City requested assistance with understanding the ecosystem service values of the site. To that end, MED provided...

This presentation will support a platform talk that describes the application of toxicity findings to assess the risk of chemical exposures. it will focus on inhalation exposures to irritant chemicals, with respect to developing and quantifying the health impact of adverse effec...

Human health assessment of environmental chemical mixtures has perpetually been limited by the availability of adverse health outcome data to inform hazard and dose-response assessment. That is, traditional mixtures assessment theory and practice, such as dose additivity, places ...

Performing decadal regional air quality model simulations has become more feasible in recent years due to increased computational resources. Analyzing such long-term simulations can help to build confidence in the modeling systems&rsquo; use for air quality planning applications ...

A Health Impact Assessment (HIA) was conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in western Duluth. The HIA evaluated a Great Lakes Area of Concern (AOC) habitat restoration project being conducted by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MNDNR) at Kingsb...

We used quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) to estimate the microbial risks from two contamination pathways in onsite non-potable water systems (ONWS): contamination of potable water by reclaimed, non-potable water and contamination of reclaimed, non-potable water by w...

How many times have you conducted an HIA or looked up an HIA conducted by others and the report is a whopping 150+ pages? You search for a summary report or a brief, because nobody got time for that! Using a combination of maps, images, narrative, and multimedia content, Story Ma...

The presentation will broadly describe EPA tools and research dedicated to the protection of public health from the adverse effects of air pollution, and the study of wildfires emissions, and their impacts on air quality and health effects. The focus of this presentation is to ou...

Health Impact Assessments (HIA) are cooperative research projects where stakeholders and decision makers are actively involved in the process. The Mid-Continent Ecology Division conducted an HIA on a habitat restoration project in the St. Louis River. The Minnesota Department of ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of proposed code changes regarding residential onsite sewage disposal systems (OSDS) in Suffolk County, New York. Of the approximately 569,000 housing units in Suffolk County, 365,000 are no...