Sources of indoor PM2.5 gross a and ß activities measured in 340 homes.
Matthaios VN, Liu M, Li L, Kang CM, Vieira CLZ, Gold DR, Koutrakis P.
Environ Res. 2021 Apr 02. 197:111114. PMID: 33812873
Professor
Petros Koutrakis
Overview
Dr. Koutrakis' research activities focus on the development of human exposure measurement techniques and the investigation of sources, transport, and the fate of air pollutants. In collaboration with his colleagues in the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, he has developed ambient particle concentrators and high volume samplers that can be used to conduct human and animal inhalation studies. He has also developed a personal ozone monitor, a continuous fine particle measurement technique and several other sampling methods for a variety of gaseous and particulate air pollutants. These novel techniques have been used extensively by air pollution scientists and human exposure assessors in United States and worldwide.
Dr. Koutrakis has conducted a number of comprehensive air pollution studies in the United States, Canada, Spain, Chile, Kuwait, Cyprus and Greece that investigate the extent of human exposures to gaseous and particulate air pollutants. Other research interests include the assessment of particulate matter exposures and their effects on the cardiac and pulmonary health.
Dr. Koutrakis is the Head of the Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program and the Director of the EPA/Harvard University Center for Ambient Particle Health Effects.
Dr. Koutrakis is a member national and international committees and the past Technical Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. He has published over 170 peer reviewed papers in the areas of air quality, exposure and health effects assessment and instrumentation.
Bibliography
A two-year assessment of particulate air pollution and sources in Kuwait.
Alahmad B, Al-Hemoud A, Kang CM, Almarri F, Kommula V, Wolfson JM, Bernstein AS, Garshick E, Schwartz J, Koutrakis P.
Environ Pollut. 2021 Mar 31. 282:117016. PMID: 33848912
Use of wearable sensors to assess compliance of asthmatic children in response to lockdown measures for the COVID-19 epidemic.
Kouis P, Michanikou A, Anagnostopoulou P, Galanakis E, Michaelidou E, Dimitriou H, Matthaiou AM, Kinni P, Achilleos S, Zacharatos H, Papatheodorou SI, Koutrakis P, Nikolopoulos GK, Yiallouros PK.
Sci Rep. 2021 03 15. 11(1):5895. PMID: 33723342
Estimating climate change-related impacts on outdoor air pollution infiltration.
Liang D, Lee WC, Liao J, Lawrence J, Wolfson JM, Ebelt ST, Kang CM, Koutrakis P, Sarnat JA.
Environ Res. 2021 Mar 08. 196:110923. PMID: 33705771
Influence of road proximity on ambient concentrations of organic and elemental carbon fractions in coarse and fine particulate matter.
Lopes Moreira TC, Huang S, Lawrence J, Martins MAG, Wolfson JM, Kang CM, Ferguson ST, Koutrakis P.
J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2021 Mar. 71(3):283-284. PMID: 33512304
Characterization of hospital airborne SARS-CoV-2.
Stern RA, Koutrakis P, Martins MAG, Lemos B, Dowd SE, Sunderland EM, Garshick E.
Respir Res. 2021 Feb 26. 22(1):73. PMID: 33637076
Ambient PM2.5 species and ultrafine particle exposure and their differential metabolomic signatures.
Nassan FL, Wang C, Kelly RS, Lasky-Su JA, Vokonas PS, Koutrakis P, Schwartz JD.
Environ Int. 2021 06. 151:106447. PMID: 33639346
Assessing additive effects of air pollutants on mortality rate in Massachusetts.
Wei Y, Coull B, Koutrakis P, Yang J, Li L, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J.
Environ Health. 2021 Feb 23. 20(1):19. PMID: 33622353
Long-Term Association of Air Pollution and Hospital Admissions Among Medicare Participants Using a Doubly Robust Additive Model.
Danesh Yazdi M, Wang Y, Di Q, Wei Y, Requia WJ, Shi L, Sabath MB, Dominici F, Coull BA, Evans JS, Koutrakis P, Schwartz JD.
Circulation. 2021 Apr 20. 143(16):1584-1596. PMID: 33611922
Estimation of ambient PM2.5 in Iraq and Kuwait from 2001 to 2018 using machine learning and remote sensing.
Li J, Garshick E, Hart JE, Li L, Shi L, Al-Hemoud A, Huang S, Koutrakis P.
Environ Int. 2021 06. 151:106445. PMID: 33618328
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