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Linking Exposure to Health
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Current Research Tasks
Applying Exposure Tools to Support Health Studies
This research involves analyses of measurement and modeling data to support studies that evaluate the relationship between exposure to air pollution sources and human health effects. Measurements of exposure and environmental levels of air pollutants are integrated and then spatial, human exposure and source apportionment models are applied to facilitate analysis of epidemiological and toxicological studies conducted in collaboration with EPA’s National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory. Current research involves studies of potentially susceptible individuals who may be especially vulnerable to air pollution, such as children and people with underlying disease. The Detroit Children’s Health Study (DCHS) is an epidemiological study examining associations between chronic environmental exposures to combustion-related air pollutants and pulmonary health among elementary school-age children in Detroit, MI. Other studies conducted in North Carolina are prospective exposure-epidemiological studies of potentially susceptible subpopulations (asthmatics and diabetics). This research will provide valuable information on the sources of air pollution affecting people involved in studies to examine the relationship between health effects and exposure to air pollution. Incorporating source resolved exposure data into health effects studies will enable researchers to gain further insight into the relationship between air pollution and health effects. Details of Applying Exposure Tools to Support Health Studies