Residential radon decay products are associated with cough and phlegm in patients with COPD.
Wang Z, Koutrakis P, Liu M, Vieira CLZ, Coull BA, Maher EF, Moy ML, Huang S, Garshick E.
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2024 Jul 10. 282:116693. PMID: 38991307
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.
Wang Z, Koutrakis P, Liu M, Vieira CLZ, Coull BA, Maher EF, Moy ML, Huang S, Garshick E.
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2024 Jul 10. 282:116693. PMID: 38991307
Guo J, Garshick E, Si F, Tang Z, Lian X, Wang Y, Li J, Koutrakis P.
JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jul 01. 7(7):e2420259. PMID: 38958973
Achilleos S, Henderson C, Kouis P, Achilleos A, Argyrou A, Caballero A, Prokopiou E, Kokkinofta R, Savvides C, Vasiliadou E, Tzortzis M, Sisou A, Koutrakis P, Yiallouros PK, Quattrocchi A.
J Environ Radioact. 2024 Jun 08. 278:107467. PMID: 38852499
Alahmad B, Khraishah H, Kamineni M, Royé D, Papatheodorou SI, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Guo Y, Lavigne E, Armstrong B, Sera F, Bernstein AS, Zanobetti A, Garshick E, Schwartz J, Bell ML, Al-Mulla F, Koutrakis P, Gasparrini A.
Stroke. 2024 Jul. 55(7):1847-1856. PMID: 38776169
Howe CM, Coull BA, Papatheodorou S, Luttmann-Gibson H, Rifas-Shiman SL, Wilson A, Kloog I, Di Q, Zanobetti A, Koutrakis P, Schwartz JD, Oken E, Gold DR.
Environ Res. 2024 Sep 15. 257:119211. PMID: 38782342
Kouis P, Galanakis E, Michaelidou E, Kinni P, Michanikou A, Pitsios C, Perez J, Achilleos S, Middleton N, Anagnostopoulou P, Dimitriou H, Revvas E, Stamatelatos G, Zacharatos H, Savvides C, Vasiliadou E, Kalivitis N, Chrysanthou A, Tymvios F, Papatheodorou SI, Koutrakis P, Yiallouros PK.
Thorax. 2024 May 20. 79(6):495-507. PMID: 38388489
Alahmad B, Yuan Q, Achilleos S, Salameh P, Papatheodorou SI, Koutrakis P.
J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2024 Jun. 74(6):439-448. PMID: 38718302
Liddie JM, Vieira CLZ, Coull BA, Sparrow D, Koutrakis P, Weisskopf MG.
Environ Int. 2024 May. 187:108666. PMID: 38648690
Matthaios VN, Holland I, Kang CM, Hart JE, Hauptman M, Wolfson JM, Gaffin JM, Phipatanakul W, Gold DR, Koutrakis P.
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 13. PMID: 38615139
Maccarone JR, Sterns OR, Timmons A, Korpak AM, Smith NL, Nakayama KS, Baird CP, Ciminera P, Kheradmand F, Fan VS, Hart JE, Koutrakis P, Jerrett M, Kuschner WG, Ioachimescu OC, Montgrain PR, Proctor SP, Redlich CA, Wendt CH, Blanc PD, Garshick E, Wan ES.
Mil Med. 2024 Mar 25. PMID: 38536226
Extreme heat and extreme cold are both associated with increased risks of death from ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, especially in low-income countries, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.
Harvard Chan School's Petros Koutrakis is leading two studies to investigate the health impacts of New England nuclear power plants on nearby residents.
Days that are very hot or very cold increased the risk of death among people with cardiovascular diseases, according to large long-term international study co-authored by experts from Harvard Chan School.
Elderly people living near or downwind of unconventional oil and gas development—which involves extraction methods including directional (non-vertical) drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking—are at higher risk of early death compared with elderly individuals who don’t live near…
Barrak Alahmad, PhD ’22, is studying the health impacts of heat and air pollution in Kuwait.