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.
2023
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, 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
Liu Y, Tong D, Cheng J, Davis SJ, Yu S, Yarlagadda B et al. Role of climate goals on reducing future air pollution deaths in China: a modelling study. Lancet Planet Health 2022;6:e92-99. Read more
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
Yu J, Gustafson P, Tran M, Brauer M. Assessing trade-offs and optimal ranges of density for life expectancy and 12 causes of mortality in Metro Vancouver, Canada, 1990-2016. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022;19(5):2900. Read more
Wagstaff M, Henderson SB, McLean KE, Brauer M. Development of methods for citizen scientist mapping of residential woodsmoke in small communities. J Environ Manage 2022;311:114788. Read more
Burkart KG, Causey K, Cohen A, Brauer M. Estimates, trends, and drivers of the global burden of type-2 diabetes mellitus attributable to particulate matter air pollution from 1990 to 2019: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Planet Health 2022;6:E586-600. 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
Lim S, Bassey E, Bos B, Makacha L, Varaden D, Arku RE et al. Comparing human exposures to fine particulate matter in low and high-income countries: A systematic review of studies measuring personal PM2.5 exposure. Sci Total Environ 2022;833:155207. Read more
Sadeh M, Brauer M, Chudnovsky A, Agay N, Ziv A, Dankner R. Is health-related quality of life 1-year after coronary artery bypass surgery associated with living in a greener environment? Environ Res 2022;212:113364. Read more
Sorek-Hamer M, von Pohle M, Sahasrabhojanee A, Akbari Asanjan A, Deardorff E, Suel E et al. A deep learning approach for meter-scale air quality estimation in urban environments using very high-resolution satellite imagery. Atmosphere 2022;13(5):696. Read more
Wang Y, Shupler M, Birch A, Chu Y, Jeronimo M, Rangarajan Set al. Personal and household PM2.5 and black carbon exposure measures and respiratory symptoms in 8 low- and middle-income countries. Environ Res 2022;212:113430. Read more
Karbakhsh M, Mansourian M, Taheri M, Rabie K, Hossieni M, Rahimi M et al. Outdoor fine and coarse particles and hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases: a large-scale case-crossover study. Air Qual Atmos Health 2022;15:1679-1693. Read more
Lim S, Bassey E, Bos B, Makacha L, Varaden D, Arku RE et al. Comparing human exposures to fine particulate matter in low and high-income countries: A systematic review of studies measuring personal PM2.5 exposure. Sci Total Environ 2022;833:155207. Read more
Sadeh M, Brauer M, Chudnovsky A, Agay N, Ziv A, Dankner R. Is health-related quality of life 1-year after coronary artery bypass surgery associated with living in a greener environment? Environ Res 2022;212:113364. Read more
Sorek-Hamer M, von Pohle M, Sahasrabhojanee A, Akbari Asanjan A, Deardorff E, Suel E et al. A deep learning approach for meter-scale air quality estimation in urban environments using very high-resolution satellite imagery. Atmosphere 2022l13(5):696. Read more
Wang Y, Shupler M, Birch A, Chu Y, Jeronimo M, Rangarajan S et al. Personal and household PM2.5 and black carbon exposure measures and respiratory symptoms in 8 low- and middle-income countries. Environ Res 2022;212:113430. Read more
Karbakhsh M, Mansourian M, Taheri M, Rabie K, Hossieni M, Rahimi M et al. Outdoor fine and coarse particles and hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases: a large-scale case-crossover study. Air Qual Atmos Health 2022;15:1679-1693. Read more
Shoari N, Beevers S, Brauer M, Blangiardo M. Towards healthy school neighbourhoods: a baseline analysis in Greater London. Environ Int 2022;165:107286. Read more
Liu J, Liu T, Burkart K, Wang H, He G, Hu J et al. Mortality burden attributable to high and low ambient temperatures in China and its provinces: Results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Reg Health West Pac 2022;24:100493. Read more
Wolf J, Hubbard S, Brauer M, Ambelu A, Arnold BF, Bain R et al. Effectiveness of interventions to improve drinking water, sanitation and handwashing with soap on diarrhoeal disease in children in low- and middle-income settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet 2022;400:48-59. 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
Hadley MB, Henderson SB, Brauer M, Vedanthan R. Protecting cardiovascular health from wildfire smoke. Circulation 2022;146:788-801. Read more
Suel E, Sorek-Hamer M, Moise I, von Pohle M, Sahasrabhojanee A, Akbari Asanjan A et al. What you see is what you breathe: Predicting air pollution spatial variation with street level imagery. Remote Sens 2022;14(14):3429. Read more
Stanaway JD, Afshin A, Ashbaugh C, Bisignano C, Brauer M, Ferrara G et al. Health effects associated with vegetable consumption: a Burden of Proof Study. Nat Med 2022;28:2066-2074. Read more
Lescinsky H, Afshin A, Ashbaugh C, Bisignano C, Brauer M, Ferrara G, Hay SI et al. Health effects associated with unprocessed red meat consumption: a Burden of Proof Study. Nat Med 2022;28:2075-2082. Read more
Zheng P, Afshin A, Biryukov S, Bisignano C, Brauer M, Bryazka D et al. The Burden of Proof Studies: assessing the evidence of risk. Nat Med 2022;28:2038-2044. Read more
Clark SN, Alli AS, Ezzati M, Brauer M, Toledano MB, Nimo J et al. Spatial modelling and inequalities of environmental noise in Accra, Ghana. Environ Res 2022;214:113932. Read more
Pagalan L, Oberlander TF, Hanley GE, Rosella LC, Bickford C, Weikum W et al. The association between prenatal greenspace exposure and autism spectrum disorder, and the potentially mediating role of air pollution reduction: A population-based birth cohort study. Environ Int 2022;167:107445. 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
GBD 2019 LRI Collaborators. Age-sex differences in the global burden of lower respiratory infections and risk factors: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Infect Dis 2022;22:1626-1647. Read more
GBD 2019 Cancer Risk Factors Collaborators. The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010-19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet 2022l400:563-591. Read more
Local Burden of Disease Household Air Pollution Collaborators. Mapping development and health effects of cooking with solid fuels in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-18: a geospatial modelling study. Lancet Glob Health 2022;10:E1395-1411. Read more
Chaves SS, Nealon J, Burkart KG, Modin D, Biering-Sørensen T, Ortiz JR et al. Global, regional and national estimates of influenza-attributable ischemic heart disease mortality. eClinicalMedicine 2022;55:101740. 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
Nathvani R, Clark S, Muller E, Alli A, Bennett J, Nimo J et al. Characterisation of urban environment and activity across space and time using street images and deep learning in Accra. Sci Rep 2022;12:20470. Read more
2021
Suel E, Bhatt S, Brauer M, Flaxman S, Ezzati M. Multimodal deep learning for measuring socioeconomic status in urban areas from satellite and street-level images. Remote Sens Environ 2021;257:112339. Read more
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
Hosford K, Brauer M, Firth CL, Winters M. The effects of road pricing on transportation and health equity: A scoping review. Transp Rev 2021;41(6):766-787. Read more
Shoari N, Ezzati M, Doyle YG, Wolfe I, Brauer M, Bennett J et al. Nowhere to play: available open and green space in Greater London schools. J Urban Health 2021;98:375-384. Read more
Yin H, Brauer M, Zhang J, Cai W, Navrud S, Burnett R et al. Population ageing and deaths attributable to ambient PM 2·5 pollution: a global analysis of economic cost. Lancet Planet Health 2021;5(6):E356-367. 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
Clark SN, Alli AS, Nathvani R, Hughes A, Ezzati M, Brauer M et al. Space-time characterization of community noise and sound sources in Accra, Ghana. Sci Rep 2021;11:11113. Read more
Myers R, Brauer M, Dummer T, Atkar-Khattra S, Yee J, Yuchi W et al. High ambient air pollution exposure among never smokers versus ever smokers with lung cancer. J Thorac Oncol 2021;16:1850-1858. 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
Burkart K, Brauer M, Aravkin A, Godwin W, Hay SI, He J et al. Estimating the cause-specific relative risks of non-optimal temperature on daily mortality: a two-part modelling approach applied to the Global Burden of Disease Study. Lancet 2021;398:685-697. Read more
Ghosh R, Causey K, Burkart K, Wozniak S, Burnett RT, Cohen A et al. Ambient and household PM2.5 pollution and adverse perinatal outcomes: A meta-regression and analysis of attributable global burden for 204 countries and territories. PLoS Med 2021. 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
Wang J, Alli A,Clark S,Hughes A, Ezzati M, Beddows A et al. Nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2) pollution in the Accra metropolis: Spatiotemporal patterns and the role of meteorology. Sci Total Environ 2021;803:149931. Read more
GBD 2019 Stroke Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Neurol 2021;20:795-820. Read more
Anenberg SC, Mohegh A, Goldberg D, Kerr G, Brauer M, Burkart K et al. Long-term trends in urban NO2 concentrations and associated pediatric asthma incidence: estimates from global datasets. Lancet Planet Health 2021;6:49-58. 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
Yu J, Dwyer-Lindgren L, Bennett J, Ezzati M, Gustafson P, Tran M et al. A spatiotemporal analysis of inequalities in life expectancy and 20 causes of mortality in sub-neighbourhoods of Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1990-2016. Health Place 2021;72:102692. Read more
Southerland V, Brauer M; Mohegh A, Hammer MS, van Donkelaar A, Martin RV et al. Global urban temporal trends in fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and attributable health burdens. Lancet Planet Health 2021;6:139-146. 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
Shupler M, Hystad P, Birch A, Chu YL, Jeronimo M, Miller-Lionberg D et al. Multinational prediction of household and personal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the PURE Cohort Study. Environ Int 2021;159:107021. Read more
Causey K, Burkart K, Collman G, Hu H, Brauer M, London SJ. Increasing the impact of environmental epidemiology in the Global Burden of Disease Project. Epidemiology 2021;32(1):1-5. Read more
Alli AS, Clark SN, Hughes A, Nimo J, Bedford-Moses J, Baah S et al. Spatial-temporal patterns of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and black carbon (BC) pollution in Accra. Environ Res Lett 2021;16(7):074013. Read more
Ru M, Brauer M, Lamarque J, Shindell D. Exploration of the global burden of dementia attributable to PM2.5: What do we know based on current evidence? Geohealth 2021;5(5):e2020GH000356. 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
Sadeh M, Brauer M, Dankner R, Fulman N, Chudnovsky A. Remote sensing metrics to assess exposure to residential greenness in epidemiological studies: A population case study from the Eastern Mediterranean. Environ Int 2021;146:106270. 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
2020
BC State of the Air Report. BC Lung Association
Mapping spatial patterns in vulnerability to climate change-related health hazards. Yu J, Castellani K, Yao A, Cawley K, Zhao X, Brauer M
Accelerating City Progress on Clean Air. Apte J, Brauer M, Guttikunda S, Hamlet C, Hasenkopf C, Kass D et al.