The HEI Annual Report for 2020, Valuing Science, Informing Decisions, describes how HEI provides high quality, impartial, and relevant science to inform public policy on air quality and public health. The report highlights HEI’s latest achievements and initiatives.
HEI is very pleased to announce the appointment of Ellen K. Mantus as the new Director of Science. All of us in the extended science family of HEI very much look forward to working with Dr. Mantus in the years ahead as we continue to pursue a robust and challenging research and review agenda.
HEI has launched five studies in the United States, Europe, and Asia to examine potential relationships among air pollution, COVID-19, and human health.
HEI is seeking two Staff Scientists with expertise in air pollution exposure assessment, environmental health, health impact assessment, epidemiology, or a related field to join our growing science team.
HEI’s Research Committee has selected three applicants from a field of highly qualified candidates to receive the Institute’s 2020 Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award. The recipients are Heresh Amini, assistant professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen; Joseph Antonelli, assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida; and Raphael Arku, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.