Peer-reviewed publications
Below is a list of recent journal articles from by EHRT faculty and students. Links to abstracts are available for most items and full-text is available for items published as open access.
2025
Ebi KL, Peng B, Bowen K, Brauer M, Chua PLC, Colon-Gonzalez FJ. Priority climate and health modelling needs. Lancet Planet Health 2025;9(9):101297. Read more
Clark SN, Arku RE, Ezzati M, Bennett J, Nathvani R, Alli AB et al. Moving beyond the noise: geospatial modelling of urban sound environments in a sub-Saharan African city. Sci Rep 2025;15(1):21403. Read more
GBD 2021 HAP Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of household air pollution, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet 2025;405(10485):1167-1181. Read more
Zhao T, Heinrich J, Brauer M, Fulman N, Idrose NS, Baumbach C et al. Urban greenspace under a changing climate: Benefit or harm for allergies and respiratory health? Environ Epidemiol 2025;9(2):e372. Read more
Clark SN, Anenberg SC, Brauer M. Global burden of disease from environmental factors. Annu Rev Public Health 2025;46(1):233-251. Read more
GBD 2021 Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of pulmonary arterial hypertension, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet Respir Med 2025;13(1):69-79. Read more
Hosford K, Pitman B, Brauer M, Lavergne R, Winters M. Characterizing older adults’ travel behaviour and unmet needs: Findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). Can J Aging 2025;44(1):26-40. Read more
2024
GBD 2021 US Burden of Disease Collaborators. The burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors by state in the USA, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet 2024;404(10469):2314-2340. Read more
Azab SM, Doiron D, Schulze KM, Brook JR, Brauer M, Smith EE et al. Exposure to air pollutants and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis measured by magnetic resonance imaging: A cross-sectional analysis. PLoS One 2024;19(10):e0309912. Read more
Weichenthal S, Christidis T, Olaniyan T, van Donkelaar A, Martin R, Tjepkema M et al. Epidemiological studies likely need to consider PM2.5 composition even if total outdoor PM2.5 mass concentration is the exposure of interest. Environ Epidemiol 2024;8(4):e317. Read more
Yin H, McDuffie EE, Martin RV, Brauer M. Global health costs of ambient PM2·5 from combustion sources: a modelling study supporting air pollution control strategies. Lancet Planet Health 2024;8(7):e476-e488. Read more
2023
Carlsten C, Brauer M, Camp PG, Nesbitt L, Turner J. British Columbia, Canada, as a bellwether for climate-driven respiratory and allergic disorders. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2023;152(5):1087-1089. Read more
Ross I, Bick S, Ayieko P, Dreibelbis R, Wolf J, Freeman MC et al. Effectiveness of handwashing with soap for preventing acute respiratory infections in low- and middle-income countries – a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet 2023;401:1681-1690. Read more
Alli AS, Clark SN, Wang J, Bennett J, Hughes A, Ezzati M et al. High-resolution patterns and inequalities in ambient fine particle mass (PM2.5) and black carbon (BC) in the Greater Accra Metropolis, Ghana. Sci Total Environ 2023.875:162582. Read more
Wolf J, Johnston R, Ambelu A, Arnold B, Bain R, Brauer M et al. Burden of disease attributable to unsafe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in domestic settings: a global analysis for selected adverse health outcomes. Lancet 2023;401:2060-2071. Read more
Larkin A, Anenberg S, Goldberg DL, Mohegh A, Brauer M. Hystad P. A global spatial-temporal land use regression model for nitrogen dioxide air pollution. Front Environ Sci 2023;11. Read more
Wang Y, Duong M, Brauer M, Rangarajan S, Dans A, Lanas F et al. Household air pollution adult lung function change and respiratory disease across 11 low- and middle-income countries. Environ Health Perspect 2023;131(4). Read more
GBD 2019 Chronic Respiratory Diseases Collaborators. Global burden of chronic respiratory diseases and risk factors, 1990–2019: an update from the Global Burden of Disease Study eClinicalMedicine 2019;59:101936. Read more
Abbasi-Kangevari M, Malekpour MR, Masinaei M, Moghaddam SS, Ghamari SH, Abbasi-Kangevari Z et al. Effect of air pollution on disease burden, mortality, and life expectancy in North Africa and the Middle East: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Planet Health 2023;7:E358-369. Read more
Suel E, Muller E, Bennett JE, Blakely T, Doyle Y, Lynch J et al. Do poverty and wealth look the same the world over? A comparative study of 12 cities from five high-income countries. EPJ Data Sci 2023;12:19. Read more
Chatterjee D, McDuffie EE, Smith SJ, Bindle L, van Donkelaar A, Hammer MS et al. Source contributions to fine particulate matter and attributable mortality in India and the surrounding region. Environ Sci Technol 2023;57(28):10263-10275. Read more
Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 GBD 2021 Diabetes Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease. Lancet 2023;402:203-234. Read more
Gemmell E, Ramsden R, Brussoni M, Brauer M. Influence of neighborhood built environments on the outdoor free play of of young children: a systematic, mixed-studies review and thematic synthesis. J Urban Health 2023;100(1):118-150. Read more
Gemmell E, Adjei-Boadi D, Sarkar A, Shoari N, White K, Zdero S et al. “In small places, close to home”: Urban environmental impacts on child rights across four global cities. Health Place 2023;83:103081. Read more
Nathvani R, Vishwanath D, Clark S, Alli A, Muller E, Coste H et al. Beyond here and now: estimating pollution levels across space and time from street view images with deep learning. Sci Total Environ 2023;903:166168. Read more
Li C, van Donkelaar A, Hammer MS, McDuffie EE, Burnett RT, Spadaro JV et al. Reversal of trends in global fine particulate matter air pollution. Nat Commun 2023;14:5349. Read more
2022
Yuchi W, Brauer M, Czekajlo A, Davies HW, Davis Z, Guhn M et al. Neighborhood environmental exposures and incidence of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a population-based cohort study. Environ Int 2022;161:107120. Read more
Chen R, Burnett RT, Brauer M, Cohen A, van Donkelaar A, Martin RV et al. Associations of long-term exposure to fine particulate matter and its constituents with cardiovascular mortality: A prospective cohort study in China. Environ Int 2022;162:107156. Read more
Jarvis I, Sbihi H, Davis Z, Brauer M, Czekajlo A, Davies HW et al. The influence of lifetime residential exposure to different vegetation types and paved surfaces on early childhood development: a population-based birth cohort study. Environ Int 2022;163:107196. Read more
Fuller R, Landrigan PJ, Balakrishnan K, Bathan MG, Boese-O’Reilly S, Brauer M et al. Pollution and health: A progress update. Lancet 2022;6:535-547. Read more
Weichenthal S, Pinault L, Christidis T, Burnett RT, Brook JR, Chu Y et al. How low can you go? Air pollution impacts mortality at very low levels. Sci Adv 2022;8(39). Read more
Gemmell E, Ramsden R, Brussoni M, Brauer M. Influence of neighbourhood built environments on the outdoor free play of young children: a systematic, mixed studies review and thematic synthesis. J Urban Health 2022;100:118-150. Read more
2021
DeLang M, Becker J, Chang K-L, Serre M, Cooper O, Schultz M et al. Mapping yearly fine resolution global surface ozone through the Bayesian Maximum Entropy data fusion of observations and model output for 1990–2017. Environ Sci Technol 2021;55(8):4389-4398. Read more
Yu J, Castellani K, Forysinski K, Gustafson P, Lu J, Peterson E et al. Neighbourhood level geospatial indicators of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to assess vulnerability to climate change-related health hazards. Environ Health 2021;20:31. Read more
McDuffie EE, Martin RV, Spadaro J, Burnett RT, Smith SJ, O’Rourke P et al. Source sector and fuel contributions to ambient PM2.5 and attributable mortality across multiple spatial scales. Nat Commun 2021;12:3594. Read more
GBD 2019 Respiratory Tract Cancers Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of respiratory tract cancers and associated risk factors from 1990 to 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Respir Med 2021;9:1030-1049. Read more
Jarvis I, Davis Z, Sbihi H, Brauer M, Czekajlo A, Davies HW et al. The association between cumulative lifetime exposure to greenspace and early childhood development – is the relation mediated by reduction in harmful exposures? Lancet Planet Health 2021;5:709-717. Read more
van Donkelaar A, Hammer M, Bindle L, Brauer M, Brook J, Garay M et al. Monthly global estimates of fine particulate matter and their uncertainty. Environ Sci Technol 2021;55:15287-15300. Read more
Wang Y, Shupler M, Brauer M, PURE Center Authors, Rangarajan S, Yusuf Y et al. Measuring and predicting personal and household black carbon exposures from 88 communities in 8 countries. Sci Total Environ 2021;818:151849. Read more
Brauer M, Casadei B, Harrington RA, Kovacs R, Sliwa K, WHF Air Pollution Expert Group. Taking a stand against air pollution – the impact on cardiovascular disease: A joint opinion from the World Heart Federation, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and the European Society of Cardiology. Circulation 2021;143(14):e800-e804. Read more
Hoffman B, Boogaard H, de Nazelle A, Andersen ZJ, Abramson M, Brauer M et al. WHO Air Quality Guidelines 2021 – aiming for healthier air for all: A joint statement by medical, public health, scientific societies and patient representative organisations. Int J Public Health 2021;66:1604465. Read more
Reports
2022
Mortality–Air Pollution Associations in Low Exposure Environments (MAPLE): Phase 2. Brauer M, Brook JR, Christidis T, Chu Y, Crouse DL, Erickson A et al.
2021
Global Burden of Disease from Major Air Pollution Sources (GBD MAPS): A Global Approach. McDuffie E, Martin R, Yin H, Brauer M