The National Studies on Air Pollution and Health (NSAPH) is a group of faculty, research scientists, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and college students studying data science methodologies in the context of climate change, environmental impacts on health outcomes, and regulatory policy. Our group’s research ranges between statistical methodology, causal inference, machine learning, measures of the environment on cardiovascular, respiratory, and neuro-cognitive health outcomes, environmental justice, and data visualization. The NSAPH group is based at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with various institutional collaborations nationwide and internationally.
The NSAPH team has established an extensive one-of-a-kind data platform, which is the result of nearly a decade of work acquiring, curating, and linking many massive data sources including Medicaid and Medicare health data, as well as air pollution data, and other climate change exposure data. The platform was created primarily to enable multi-decade, nationwide US studies of air pollution and health. Research enabled by the platform has been explicitly cited as evidence supporting new policies to reduce air pollution exposure and improve health in the U.S.
