Health Effects Institute Annual Conference 2025

Please mark your calendars for HEI's next Annual Conference Sunday, May 4 - Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at the Marriot Downtown in Austin, Texas. The conference is always a great opportunity to hear about cutting edge research related to environmental exposure assessment and environmental health and for connecting with friends, peers, and colleagues. The 3-day event will include updates on HEI-funded research, scientific sessions, keynote speakers, poster presentations, and much more.

October 2024
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Pallavi Pant and guest Sara Adar discussed reducing air pollution emissions in school busses.

New health studies launched on traffic-related air pollution exposure, diesel fleet turnover

October 21, 2024

HEI is pleased to announce the launch of five studies it is funding as the result of two separate research solicitations: Request for Applications 23-1, Assessing Health Effects of Traffic-Related Air Pollution (TRAP); and Request for Qualifications 24-1, Benefits Assessment of Accelerated Turnover of the On-Road Diesel Vehicle Fleet in the United States.

HEI launches three new studies on effects of emissions-reduction policies for historically marginalized communities

October 17, 2024

HEI is pleased to announce three new studies funded under RFA 23-2, Assessing Changes in Exposures and Health Outcomes in Historically Marginalized and Environmentally Overburdened Communities from Air Quality Actions, Programs, or Other Interventions. This body of research will provide answers about whether recent air quality actions taken at the state and federal levels equitably improve emissions, air quality, and health for historically marginalized communities potentially affected by the growing goods and freight movement.

New report on effects of diesel school bus replacement program

October 16, 2024
Cover of Adar report

A new HEI report, Assessing the National Health, Education, and Air Quality Benefits of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s School Bus Rebate Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial Design, presents a study led by Sara Adar of the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.

Request for Qualifications and Proposals for Quality Assurance Oversight

October 15, 2024

The Health Effects Institute (HEI) Environment and Health and Energy programs are seeking contractors to provide quality assurance services for their funded studies. 

HEI-funded research played important role in European Union’s adoption of new air quality standards to improve public health

October 15, 2024

The European Union’s (EU) revised Ambient Air Quality Directive sets new air quality standards for EU countries to achieve by 2030 for major pollutants to align more closely with the latest World Health Organization guidelines. Findings on low-level air pollution exposure, particularly the findings from an HEI-funded study of 28 million participants in Europe, played an important role in informing the new EU air quality standards

Call for applications- early career training on air pollution and health

June 11, 2024

The Health Effects Institute (HEI), the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), and the Collaborative for Air Pollution and Health Effects Research—India (CAPHER-India) are organizing a training programme on methods and approaches for air pollution and health research at ICIMOD between August 12-14, 2024.

Panel publishes protocol for a review on health effects of air pollution in East Africa

May 30, 2024

To synthesize the available literature on health effects of air pollution in East Africa, HEI is conducting a scoping review with an expert panel. 

Watch HEI’s new State of Global Air video: Cleaner Air, Healthier Children

April 12, 2024

Watch our video “Cleaner Air, Healthier Children” to learn more about the health effects of air pollution on children.