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Wildfires and the changing landscape of air pollution related health burden  Wildfires are a major sources of air pollution. Understanding emerging patterns of wildfire-related health burden, including identification of the most affected populations, is key to formulating an...

Background: Exposure to airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Exposure to PM2.5 is associated with a wide range of adverse outcomes such as exacerbation of cardiovascular disease, respiratory infections, and premature de...

Historically, approaches for monitoring air pollution generally use expensive, complex, stationary equipment,<SUP>1,2</SUP> which limits who collects data, why data are collected, and how data are accessed. This paradigm is changing with the materialization of lower-cost, easy-to...

This is a lecture on air pollution (including wildfire smoke) and health to be given to medical students in an elective environmental health seminar at the University of NC-Chapel Hill on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.&nbsp;

Background: Prenatal environmental exposures may have lasting effects on child health, and socioeconomic stressors experienced during pregnancy may increase susceptibility to environmental insults. Fetal epigenetic programming via altered cord blood DNA methylation may reveal pat...

Rationale &amp; Objectives: Wildfire smoke is associated with short-term respiratory outcomes including asthma exacerbation in children. As investigations into developmental exposure to wildfire smoke exposure (WSE) on children&rsquo;s longer-term respiratory health are sparse, w...

The prevalence of asthma in the United States (U.S.) has doubled since 1970, coinciding with the increased use of gypsum-drywall in home construction. Mold growth is promoted when gypsum-drywall gets wet. Since asthma is linked to mold exposures, accurate quantification of mold c...

Background: Exposure to military burn pit smoke during deployment is associated with different respiratory and non-respiratory diseases. However, information linking smoke exposure to human pulmonary health is lacking. This study examined the effects of simulated burn pit smoke c...

EPA has traditionally used its source-exposure-dose-effect paradigm for risk assessment of single chemicals and chemical mixtures.&nbsp; With an increased emphasis on equity and environmental justice, EPA and some states and municipalities have committed to incorporate the cumula...

International Society of Exposure Science presentation.&nbsp; EPA has traditionally used its source-exposure-dose-effect paradigm for risk assessment of single chemicals and chemical mixtures.&nbsp; With an increased emphasis on equity and environmental justice, EPA and some stat...

We characterized&nbsp;trends in fine particulate matter (PM2.5) related health&nbsp;burden across California residential ZIP codes (2008-2016), focusing on asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and all-cause respiratory and cardiovascular&nbsp;emergency department (ED) v...

We present this work as a presentation and a white paper that can be shared with community partners. In this work, we conducted a preliminary analysis of air pollution data (including criteria air pollutants and air toxics), demographics, and health outcomes in the community of W...

Recent epidemiological findings link asthma to adverse cardiovascular responses. Yet, the precise cardiovascular impacts of allergic airways disease alone have been challenging to disentangle from the potential cardiovascular effects caused by asthma medication. The purpose of th...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death worldwide, and its global health burden is increasing. COPD is characterized by emphysema, mucus hypersecretion, and persistent lung inflammation, and clinically presented with chronic airflow obstru...

As temperatures defy heat records, it is difficult to ignore the implications of climate change for public health, including impacts on population health more specifically.&nbsp; In short, climate change is happening now and presents an immediate hazard to human health on a globa...

Ambient air pollution is a leading risk factor for premature mortality and morbidity arising from increased pulmonary and cardiac pathogenesis. The composition of ambient air pollution is highly dependent on local atmospheric accumulation of primary and secondary pollutants, incl...

Numerous health studies show that exposure to traffic emissions near large roadways increases risks for multiple adverse health effects including childhood asthma, other respiratory illnesses, cardiovascular effects, and premature mortality. EPA studies show that properly designe...

Objective: Inhalation of smoke from the burning of waste materials on military bases is associatedwith increased incidences of cardiopulmonary diseases. This study examined the respiratory andinflammatory effects of acute inhalation exposures in mice to smoke generated by militar...

Rationale: Wildfires are a growing source of fine particulate (PM2.5) pollution, but associated trends in health burden are not well characterized.Objectives: We investigated trends and disparities in PM2.5-related cardiorespiratory health burden (asthma, chronic obstructive pulm...

Public Health Impact of Wildfire Smoke Exposure.&nbsp;&nbsp; Health effects and outcomes reported in wildfire smoke studies are consistent with the thousands of studies examining effects of all PM2.5 exposures.&nbsp; The reported outcomes include: &bull; All-cause mortality &bull...

RATIONALE Air pollution exposure in pregnancy may affect fetal growth, and fetal growth restriction (FGR) is associ&shy;ated with lung im&shy;pairment that can persist into adulthood. Associated diseases include asthma, pulmonary hypertension (PH), and chronic obstructive pulmo&...

The confluence of extreme weather conditions and crowded forests are contributing to larger and more severe forest fires.&nbsp; The progressive migration of the US population into the wildland-urban-interface is placing more people in the path of wildfire, while the emissions fro...

Background: Air pollution risk assessments do not generally quantify health impacts using multipollutant risk estimates, but instead use results from single-pollutant or copollutant models. Multipollutant epidemiological models account for pollutant interactions and joint effects...

During April 30&ndash;August 4, 2023, smoke originating from wildfires in Canada affected most of the contiguous United States. CDC used National Syndromic Surveillance Program data to assess numbers and percentages of asthma-associated emergency department (ED) visits on days wi...

Background:&nbsp;While benefits of greenness to health have been reported, findings specific to child respiratory health are inconsistent. Methods:&nbsp;We utilized a prospective birth cohort followed from birth to age 7 years (n = 617). Residential surrounding greenness was quan...