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Assessment of Changes in Air Quality in Indian Cities Since the Launch of the National Clean Air Programme

Health Effects Institute
2025
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Air Pollution

HEI has published a new report “Assessment of Changes in Air Quality in Indian Cities Since the Launch of the National Clean Air Programme.” The report evaluates trends for particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) across NCAP cities since the launch of the program.
 

Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Selected Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution

Health Effects Institute
2022
Special Report 23
Air Pollution
Traffic-related

This comprehensive scientific review examines the evidence for associations between several adverse health effects and traffic-related air pollution (TRAP). The review, the largest of its type to date, was conducted by a panel of 13 renowned experts who evaluated 353 published scientific reports on traffic pollution and related health effects between 1980 and 2019.

Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Birth Weight: The Roles of Noise, Placental Function, Green Space, Physical Activity, and Socioeconomic Status (FRONTIER)

Payam Dadvand
Jordi Sunyer
Ioar Rivas
Maria Dolores Gómez-Roig
Elisa Llurba
Maria Foraster
et al.
2026
Research Report 236
Air Pollution
Nitrogen Oxides
Multipollutant Mixtures
Particulate Matter
Traffic-related

This report presents a study led by co-principal investigators Payam Dadvand and Jordi Sunyer at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). Dadvand, Sunyer, and colleagues examined the effects of prenatal exposure to traffic-related air pollution on fetal growth and placental function in a newly established cohort of 1,080 women living in Barcelona, Spain.

Early-Life Air Pollution Exposure Is Associated with the Infant Gut Microbiome and Fecal Metabolome in the First Two Years of Life

Tanya L Alderete
Elizabeth A. Holzhausen
Donghai Liang
Roshonda B. Jones
Fredrick Lurmann
Michael I. Goran
et al.
2026
Research Report 237
Air Pollution
Nitrogen Oxides
Ozone & Oxidants
Particulate Matter
Traffic-related
Biological Methods

This report presents a study led by Tanya L. Alderete, a recipient of HEI’s 2019 Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award, at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. Alderete and colleagues examined whether prenatal or postnatal exposures to air pollution were associated with changes in the infant gut microbiome and fecal metabolome during the first 2 years of life.

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