Hanna Boogaard

Dr. Hanna Boogaard has more than 20 years of experience in air pollution epidemiology and exposure assessment. She is a Consultant Principal Scientist at the Health Effects Institute (HEI) in Boston, MA. At HEI, she is involved in developing, overseeing, and reviewing studies investigating the health effects of air pollution and studies evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to improve air quality and public health. She received a PhD in 2012 in air pollution epidemiology from Utrecht University, Netherlands. She studied health effects of traffic‐related air pollution, and the effectiveness of traffic policy measures. She holds a MSc in Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences (2005) from Maastricht University, Netherlands.

She has been advisor of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, World Health Organization, Health Canada, and other national and international bodies. She was co-chair of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology Europe Chapter. She is currently on the World Health Organization Global Air pollution and Health - Technical Advisory Group, the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology Policy Committee and Associate editor Public Health, Environmental Epidemiology & Health Impact Assessment for the journal Environment International.