Impacts of Air Pollution on Health: Assessment and Challenges
Location: Curtis Hall, Multipurpose Room
Date: January 30, 2020
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Sponsor: Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lectures
Laura Corlin, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University
Most of the research on air pollution focuses on how individual air pollutants affect health outcomes. From this research, it is known that air pollution is among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality globally. Yet, people are routinely exposed to pollutant mixtures – not individually pollutants. Therefore, we need to develop better methods to assess people's exposures to air pollutant mixtures and to understand the health effects of this exposure. This talk will introduce concepts related to the exposure assessment of air pollution mixtures and the epidemiologic challenges in relating these pollutant mixtures to chronic health outcomes. It will also be discussed how expertise in environmental engineering, health sciences, statistics, and environmental policy is used. Dr. Corlin will touch on her path through Tufts as well and how students may be able to leverage the substantial resources of the university to pursue their own research.
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