This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program provides $419,011 to Emory University to develop innovative dimension reduction techniques for assessing the combined health effects of air pollution mixtures. The research aims to quantify the tangible health impacts of different air pollutant combinations, including criteria pollutants, fine particulates, and volatile organic...
This $462,872 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program will support research to evaluate the nationwide risks for emergency medical service (EMS) transports associated with short-term exposures to air pollution and temperature. The key objectives are to: 1) construct a spatiotemporal database linking 911 call data with environmental exposure data (particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program provides $242,310 to Emory University for a research project titled "Improved Estimation of Pollen Exposure, Mixtures, and Risk of Respiratory Illness." The project aims to: 1) implement a multi-location time-series study of pollen and respiratory morbidity that includes assessment of individual- and area-level social vulnerability...
This $440,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program supports an interdisciplinary research study to examine the relationship between bedrock lithology, settlement patterns, water quality, and health equity in Oklahoma. The project, led by the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. (KUMCRI), has three key aims: 1) model the connection between bedrock, land use, settlement,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $702,364 to conduct a nationwide analysis to determine which fine particulate matter (PM2.5) source sectors and fuel types are most associated with mortality and cardiovascular and respiratory hospital admissions. The project, led by Yale University, will employ large datasets to evaluate how PM2.5 exposure varying by chemical...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $294,253 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program to Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), a for-profit R&D company in Andover, MA. The goal of this 1-year project is to develop and demonstrate an advanced, real-time benzene detector capable of measuring parts-per-billion concentrations to better understand and mitigate the health impacts of benzene exposure. The key technical objectives are to...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $676,077 Project Grant (CFDA 93.113 Environmental Health) to Colorado State University to conduct a national-scale study on the relationship between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) composition, oxidative potential, and cardiorespiratory health outcomes. The study aims to: Deploy a low-cost measurement network to quantify PM2.5 oxidative potential across the U.S. and analyze collected samples for trace elements. Perform a...
This Project Grant award, totaling $528,194, was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program. The award aims to develop statistical methods for precision environmental health assessments focused on the health effects of exposure to chemical mixtures. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Developing a general framework for estimating heterogeneous mixture...
This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, supports research at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HSC) to characterize the impact of uranium-bearing dust (UBD) on the intestinal epithelium. The key objectives are to: 1) determine how UBD exposure affects the intestinal mucosal surface, including thinning of the mucus layer and dysfunction of goblet cells,...
This $186,075 Project Grant was awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program. The grant will support research to investigate the role of the ACOD1-itaconate immunometabolic pathway in regulating lung monocyte/macrophage inflammatory processes in response to environmental exposures that can cause lung disease. Specifically, the research aims to 1) determine the functional effects of the...
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded Emory University a $766,661.24 Project Grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program. The grant, with a period of performance from September 6, 2024 to August 31, 2027, aims to investigate the acute health effects of unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD) construction activities. The key objectives are: 1) to develop automated detection of UOGD construction stages using high-resolution satellite imagery, 2) to estimate the acute effects of each UOGD construction stage on cause-specific hospitalizations in Medicare beneficiaries using causal inference methods, 3) to develop and validate new exposure metrics for UOGD-related air pollutants measured by satellite sensors, and 4) to explore how UOGD-related air pollutants mediate the effects of UOGD construction. The expected outcomes include an open-source software tool for detecting UOGD activities, exposure data on UOGD-related air pollutants, and quantification of the acute causal health effects of UOGD construction. The grant aims to address critical gaps in exposure assessment and causal inference to provide rigorous and actionable evidence on the public health impacts of UOGD.