Announcements

Ambient PM Health Effects Research Funding Opportunity

September 16, 2024

HEI is pleased to inform you of a new funding opportunity RFA 24-2: Insights into the Health Effects of Exposure to Low Concentrations of Particulate Matter. The RFA will focus on studies that can help to distinguish between potential sources of heterogeneity or to clarify the biological plausibility of PM health effects at low levels of ambient exposure.

HEI publishes second large study on air pollution and COVID-19

September 13, 2024

HEI has published a new Research Report, Air Pollution in Relation to COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality: A Large Population-Based Cohort Study in Catalonia, Spain, which presents a study led by Cathryn Tonne of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health.

New report on air pollution and childhood asthma risk

September 6, 2024

HEI has published a new Research Report, Birth Cohort Studies of Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution in Early Life and Development of Asthma in Children and Adolescents from Denmark. The study presented in the report, led by Marie Pedersen of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, examined children’s asthma in four Danish cohorts and focused on exposure to an array of air pollutants.

New study examines potential health benefits of reducing emissions

August 27, 2024

HEI has published a new Research Report, Estimating Model-Based Marginal Societal Health Benefits of Air Pollution Emission Reductions in the United States and Canada.

New report on particulate matter exposure and mortality in Canada

July 30, 2024

HEI has published a new report, Long-Term Exposure to Outdoor Ultrafine Particles and Black Carbon and Effects on Mortality in Montreal and Toronto, Canada, which presents a study led by Scott Weichenthal of McGill University in Montreal.

Database of South Asia – Air Pollution and Health (DoSAAH)