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Research Report 230
Jeanette Stingone
Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir
Sneha Kannoth
Mehr Shafiq
Cong Zhang
Sandra Albrecht
et al.
2025

This report presents a study led by Jeanette A. Stingone at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Stingone and colleagues evaluated whether associations between long-term air pollution exposures and severe COVID-19 health outcomes varied by New York City neighborhoods that differed in environmental vulnerability, as defined by social and structural characteristics.

Research Report 227
Klea Katsouyanni
Dimitris Evangelopoulos
Dylan Wood
Benjamin Barratt
Hanbin Zhang
Heather Walton
et al.
2025

This report presents a study led by Klea Katsouyanni at Imperial College London. Katsouyanni and colleagues evaluated whether detailed estimates of long-term, personal exposures to outdoor air pollution yield better estimates of the health effects of exposure than less detailed approaches.

Research Report 220
Cathryn Tonne
Otavio Ranzani
Anna Alari
Joan Ballester
Xavier Basagaña
Carlos Chaccour
et al.
2024

This study evaluated associations between exposure to outdoor air pollution and risk of hospital admissions, disease severity, and death related to coronavirus disease among 4.6 million adults in Catalonia, Spain, in 2020.

Research Report 219
Marie Pedersen
Shuo Liu
Zorana J Andersen
Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen
Jørgen Brandt
Esben Budtz-Jørgensen
et al.
2024

This report presents a study led by Marie Pedersen of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Pedersen and colleagues examined children’s asthma in four Danish cohorts and focused on exposure to an array of air pollutants, including fine particulate matter, ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and combinations of those pollutants.

In this issue of Update, read about a major HEI study in Europe that found evidence of health effects at low levels of air pollution; a new Board Chair; our first-ever Director of Science Communications; steps HEI is taking toward diversity, equity, and inclusion; the launch of new studies on wildfires and the effectiveness of air quality policies, and more.

Research Report 208
Bert Brunekreef
Maciej Strak
Jie Chen
Zorana J Andersen
Richard Atkinson
Mariska Bauwelinck
et al.
2021

Research Report 208 presents a study by Bert Brunekreef at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and colleagues examining associations between exposures to relatively low levels of air pollution below the current EU standards and several health outcomes among participants in 22 European cohorts.