Extramural Research

Agenda

Grantee Research Project Results

Air Pollution Impacts on Health: EPA STAR Research Grant Symposium
EPA Campus Auditorium
Research Triangle Park, NC
March 28-9, 2012

Wednesday, March 28 2012

8:00-8:15	Dan Costa EPA - iNPD	Introduction
8:15-8:45	Andrew Zeft Cleveland Clinic Foundation	Associations of short-term pollution exposures with childhood autoimmune disease
8:45-9:15	Antonella Zanobetti Harvard School of Public Health	PM2.5 and mortality risk in diabetics and the neurologically impaired: A National analysis
9:15-9:45	Break
9:45-10:30	Lucas Neas EPA - NHEERL	Soluble Ions with ICP-MS are Superior to Total Elements with XRF in Assessing Component-specific Cardiovascular Effects of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5)
10:30-11:00	Jennifer Peel Colorado School of Public Health	Exploring new questions of multiple air pollutants, sources and health in Denver
11:00-11:30	Kazuhiko Ito NYC DOHMH	Intra-urban variation of air pollution and cardiovascular health effects
11:30-12:00	Francesca Dominici Harvard School of Public Health	The effect of air pollution control on life expectancy in the United States: A population-based analysis of major metropolitan areas
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-1:45	Charles Stanier University of Iowa	Applying Data Assimilation and Adjoint Sensitivity to Epidemiological and Policy Studies of Airborne Particulate Matter
1:45-2:30	Ted Russell Georgia Institute of Technology	Improving Particulate Matter Source Apportionment for Health Studies: A Trained Receptor Modeling Approach with Sensitivity, Uncertainty and Spatial
2:30-3:00	Ana Rappold EPA – NHEERL	Pocosin Wildlife Refuge Wildfire 2008. A case study in health and economic impacts, environmental health disparities and evaluation of potential risk reduction measures.
3:00-3:30	Break
3:30-4:15	Montserrat Fuentes North Carolina State University - Raleigh	Spatial temporal analysis of health effects associated with sources and speciation of fine PM
4:15-5:00	Michael Kleeman University of California - Davis	Enhanced air pollution epidemiology using a source-oriented chemical transport model
5:00-5:15	Tom Luben EPA – NCEA	Concluding remarks
6:30	Optional dinner at Mez Durham	0.6 miles from hotel - shuttle also available
Thursday, March 29 2012
9:00-9:15	Lydia Wegman EPA - OAQPS	Introduction
9:15-9:45	Alan Vette EPA – NHEERL	Overview of the Near Roadways Exposure to Urban Air Pollutants Study (NEXUS)
9:45-10:30	Stuart Batterman University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	NEXUS, Study cohort and health assessment
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-11:45	Vlad Isakov & A. Vette EPA – NERL EPA – NHEERL	NEXUS, Results of air quality and exposure assessment
11:45-12:30		NEXUS, Remaining work and open discussion
12:30	Adjourn

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