Health benefits of decreases in on-road transportation emissions in the United States from 2008 to 2017.
Choma EF, Evans JS, Gómez-Ibáñez JA, Di Q, Schwartz JD, Hammitt JK, Spengler JD.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 12 21. 118(51). PMID: 34903648
Primary Faculty
Joel Schwartz
Other Positions
Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Bibliography
Health impacts of wildfire-related air pollution in Brazil: a nationwide study of more than 2 million hospital admissions between 2008 and 2018.
Requia WJ, Amini H, Mukherjee R, Gold DR, Schwartz JD.
Nat Commun. 2021 11 12. 12(1):6555. PMID: 34772927
Solar Activity Is Associated With Diastolic and Systolic Blood Pressure in Elderly Adults.
Wang VA, Zilli Vieira CL, Garshick E, Schwartz JD, Garshick MS, Vokonas P, Koutrakis P.
J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 11 02. 10(21):e021006. PMID: 34713707
Short- and intermediate-term exposure to ambient fine particulate elements and leukocyte epigenome-wide DNA methylation in older men: the Normative Aging Study.
Wang C, Cardenas A, Hutchinson JN, Just A, Heiss J, Hou L, Zheng Y, Coull BA, Kosheleva A, Koutrakis P, Baccarelli AA, Schwartz JD.
Environ Int. 2022 01. 158:106955. PMID: 34717175
Long-term effect of exposure to lower concentrations of air pollution on mortality among US Medicare participants and vulnerable subgroups: a doubly-robust approach.
Yazdi MD, Wang Y, Di Q, Requia WJ, Wei Y, Shi L, Sabath MB, Dominici F, Coull B, Evans JS, Koutrakis P, Schwartz JD.
Lancet Planet Health. 2021 Oct. 5(10):e689-e697. PMID: 34627473
Prenatal exposure to wildfire-related air pollution and birth defects in Brazil.
Requia WJ, Kill E, Papatheodorou S, Koutrakis P, Schwartz JD.
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2021 Sep 09. PMID: 34504295
A self-controlled approach to survival analysis, with application to air pollution and mortality.
Schwartz JD, Yitshak-Sade M, Zanobetti A, Di Q, Requia WJ, Dominici F, Mittleman MA.
Environ Int. 2021 12. 157:106861. PMID: 34507231
Daily nonaccidental mortality associated with short-term PM2.5 exposures in Delhi, India.
Krishna B, Mandal S, Madhipatla K, Reddy KS, Prabhakaran D, Schwartz JD.
Environ Epidemiol. 2021 Aug. 5(4):e167. PMID: 34414349
A Direct Estimate of the Impact of PM2.5, NO2, and O3 Exposure on Life Expectancy Using Propensity Scores.
Schwartz JD, Di Q, Requia WJ, Dominici F, Zanobetti A.
Epidemiology. 2021 07 01. 32(4):469-476. PMID: 34042074
Metabolomic signatures of the short-term exposure to air pollution and temperature.
Nassan FL, Kelly RS, Koutrakis P, Vokonas PS, Lasky-Su JA, Schwartz JD.
Environ Res. 2021 10. 201:111553. PMID: 34171372
News
Decreased vehicle emissions linked with significant drop in deaths attributable to air pollution
Decreasing vehicle emissions since 2008 have reduced by thousands the number of deaths attributable to air pollution, yielding billions of dollars in benefits to society, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School researchers.
Long-term exposure to permissible concentrations of air pollution linked with increased mortality risk
Exposure to low concentrations of air pollution, even at levels permitted under federal regulations, may be causing tens of thousands of early deaths each year among elderly people and other vulnerable groups in the U.S., according to a…
Stronger air pollution standards in U.S. would have significant public health benefits
May 26, 2021 –Reducing certain air pollutants in the U.S. by small amounts would prevent thousands of early deaths each year among elders, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study,…
For one Indian researcher, the fight for cleaner air is personal
Bhargav Krishna, DrPH ’21, hopes to build public support for improving the India's ‘really terrible’ air.
Even low levels of air pollution can harm hearts, lungs in elderly
Long-term exposure to low levels of air pollution—even levels below national standards—can increase the risk of several serious cardiac and respiratory conditions in elderly adults, according to a new study.
