College of Health

Y. Wang, Duong, M. L., Brauer, M., Rangarajan, S., Dans, A., Lanas, F., Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Puoane, T., Yeates, K., Chifamba, J., Yusuf, R., Liu, Z., Li, Y., Tse, L. Ah, Mohan, D., Gupta, R., Nair, S., Lakshmi, P., Iqbal, R., Anto, T., Yusuf, S., and Hystad, P., “Household Air Pollution and Adult Lung Function Change, Respiratory Disease, and Mortality across Eleven Low- and Middle-Income Countries from the PURE Study.”, Environ Health Perspect, vol. 131, no. 4, p. 47015, 2023.

S. Weichenthal, Pinault, L., Christidis, T., Burnett, R. T., Brook, J. R., Chu, Y., Crouse, D. L., Erickson, A. C., Hystad, P., Li, C., Martin, R. V., Meng, J., Pappin, A. J., Tjepkema, M., van Donkelaar, A., Weagle, C. L., and Brauer, M., “How low can you go? Air pollution affects mortality at very low levels.”, Sci Adv, vol. 8, no. 39, p. eabo3381, 2022.

S. C. Anenberg, Mohegh, A., Goldberg, D. L., Kerr, G. H., Brauer, M., Burkart, K., Hystad, P., Larkin, A., Wozniak, S., and Lamsal, L., “Long-term trends in urban NO concentrations and associated paediatric asthma incidence: estimates from global datasets.”, Lancet Planet Health, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. e49-e58, 2022.

Y. Wang, Shupler, M., Birch, A., Chu, Y. Li, Jeronimo, M., Rangarajan, S., Mustaha, M., Heenan, L., Seron, P., Lanas, F., Salazar, L., Saavedra, N., Oliveros, M. Jose, Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Camacho, P. A., Otero, J., Perez-Mayorga, M., Yeates, K., West, N., Ncube, T., Ncube, B., Chifamba, J., Yusuf, R., Khan, A., Liu, Z., Bo, H., Wei, L., Tse, L. A., Mohan, D., Kumar, P., Gupta, R., Mohan, I., Jayachitra, K. G., Mony, P. K., Rammohan, K., Nair, S., Lakshmi, P. V. M., Sagar, V., Khawaja, R., Iqbal, R., Kazmi, K., Yusuf, S., Brauer, M., and Hystad, P., “Measuring and predicting personal and household Black Carbon levels from 88 communities in eight countries.”, Sci Total Environ, vol. 818, p. 151849, 2022.

M. Shupler, Hystad, P., Birch, A., Chu, Y. Li, Jeronimo, M., Miller-Lionberg, D., Gustafson, P., Rangarajan, S., Mustaha, M., Heenan, L., Seron, P., Lanas, F., Cazor, F., Oliveros, M. Jose, Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Camacho, P. A., Otero, J., Perez, M., Yeates, K., West, N., Ncube, T., Ncube, B., Chifamba, J., Yusuf, R., Khan, A., Liu, Z., Wu, S., Wei, L., Tse, L. Ah, Mohan, D., Kumar, P., Gupta, R., Mohan, I., Jayachitra, K. G., Mony, P. K., Rammohan, K., Nair, S., Lakshmi, P. V. M., Sagar, V., Khawaja, R., Iqbal, R., Kazmi, K., Yusuf, S., and Brauer, M., “Multinational prediction of household and personal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM) in the PURE cohort study.”, Environ Int, vol. 159, p. 107021, 2022.

Y. Wang, Shupler, M., Birch, A., Chu, Y. Li, Jeronimo, M., Rangarajan, S., Mustaha, M., Heenan, L., Seron, P., Saavedra, N., Oliveros, M. Jose, Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Camacho, P. A., Otero, J., Perez-Mayorga, M., Yeates, K., West, N., Ncube, T., Ncube, B., Chifamba, J., Yusuf, R., Khan, A., Liu, Z., Cheng, X., Wei, L., Tse, L. A., Mohan, D., Kumar, P., Gupta, R., Mohan, I., Jayachitra, K. G., Mony, P. K., Rammohan, K., Nair, S., Lakshmi, P. V. M., Sagar, V., Khawaja, R., Iqbal, R., Kazmi, K., Yusuf, S., Brauer, M., and Hystad, P., “Personal and household PM and black carbon exposure measures and respiratory symptoms in 8 low- and middle-income countries.”, Environ Res, p. 113430, 2022.

R. E. Arku, Brauer, M., Duong, M. L., Wei, L., Hu, B., Tse, L. Ah, Mony, P. K., Lakshmi, P. V. M., Pillai, R. K., Mohan, V., Yeates, K., Kruger, L., Rangarajan, S., Koon, T., Yusuf, S., and Hystad, P., “Adverse health impacts of cooking with kerosene: A multi-country analysis within the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology Study”, Environmental Research, vol. 188, p. 109851, 2020.

P. Hystad, Larkin, A., Rangarajan, S., AlHabib, K. F., Avezum, A., Calik, K. Burcu Tume, Chifamba, J., Dans, A., Diaz, R., Plessis, J. L. du, Gupta, R., Iqbal, R., Khatib, R., Kelishadi, R., Lanas, F., Liu, Z., Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Nair, S., Poirier, P., Rahman, O., Rosengren, A., Swidan, H., Tse, L. Ah, Wei, L., Wielgosz, A., Yeates, K., Yusoff, K., Zatoński, T., Burnett, R., Yusuf, S., and Brauer, M., “Associations of outdoor fine particulate air pollution and cardiovascular disease in 157 436 individuals from 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study.”, Lancet Planet Health, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. e235-e245, 2020.

A. C. Erickson, Christidis, T., Pappin, A., Brook, J. R., Crouse, D. L., Hystad, P., Li, C., Martin, R. V., Meng, J., Pinault, L., von Donkelaar, A., Weichenthal, S., Tjepkema, M., Burnett, R. T., and Brauer, M., “Disease assimilation: The mortality impacts of fine particulate matter on immigrants to Canada.”, Health Rep, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 14-26, 2020.

D. L. Crouse, Erickson, A. C., Christidis, T., Pinault, L., van Donkelaar, A., Li, C., Meng, J., Martin, R. V., Tjepkema, M., Hystad, P., Burnett, R., Pappin, A., Brauer, M., and Weichenthal, S., “Evaluating the Sensitivity of PM2.5-Mortality Associations to the Spatial and Temporal Scale of Exposure Assessment.”, Epidemiology, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 168-176, 2020.

D. Doiron, Setton, E. M., Shairsingh, K., Brauer, M., Hystad, P., Ross, N. A., and Brook, J. R., “Healthy built environment: Spatial patterns and relationships of multiple exposures and deprivation in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.”, Environ Int, vol. 143, p. 106003, 2020.

M. Shupler, Hystad, P., Birch, A., Miller-Lionberg, D., Jeronimo, M., Arku, R. E., Chu, Y. Li, Mushtaha, M., Heenan, L., Rangarajan, S., Seron, P., Lanas, F., Cazor, F., Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Camacho, P. A., Perez, M., Yeates, K., West, N., Ncube, T., Ncube, B., Chifamba, J., Yusuf, R., Khan, A., Hu, B., Liu, X., Wei, L., Tse, L. Ah, Mohan, D., Kumar, P., Gupta, R., Mohan, I., Jayachitra, K. G., Mony, P. K., Rammohan, K., Nair, S., Lakshmi, P. V. M., Sagar, V., Khawaja, R., Iqbal, R., Kazmi, K., Yusuf, S., and Brauer, M., “Household and personal air pollution exposure measurements from 120 communities in eight countries: results from the PURE-AIR study.”, Lancet Planet Health, vol. 4, no. 10, pp. e451-e462, 2020.

R. E. Arku, Brauer, M., Ahmed, S. H., AlHabib, K. F., Avezum, A., Bo, J., Choudhury, T., Dans, A. Ml, Gupta, R., Iqbal, R., Ismail, N., Kelishadi, R., Khatib, R., Koon, T., Kumar, R., Lanas, F., Lear, S. A., Wei, L., Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Mohan, V., Poirier, P., Puoane, T., Rangarajan, S., Rosengren, A., Soman, B., Caklili, O. Telci, Yang, S., Yeates, K., Yin, L., Yusoff, K., Zatoński, T., Yusuf, S., and Hystad, P., “Long-term exposure to outdoor and household air pollution and blood pressure in the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study.”, Environ Pollut, vol. 262, p. 114197, 2020.

J. Meng, Li, C., Martin, R. V., van Donkelaar, A., Hystad, P., and Brauer, M., “Estimated Long-term (1981-2016) Concentrations of Ambient Fine Particulate Matter across North America from Chemical Transport Modeling, Satellite Remote Sensing and Ground-based Measurements.”, Environ Sci Technol, 2019.

A. J. Pappin, Christidis, T., Pinault, L. L., Crouse, D. L., Brook, J. R., Erickson, A., Hystad, P., Li, C., Martin, R. V., Meng, J., Weichenthal, S., van Donkelaar, A., Tjepkema, M., Brauer, M., and Burnett, R. T., “Examining the Shape of the Association between Low Levels of Fine Particulate Matter and Mortality across Three Cycles of the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort.”, Environ Health Perspect, vol. 127, no. 10, p. 107008, 2019.

P. Achakulwisut, Brauer, M., Hystad, P., and Anenberg, S. C., “Global, national, and urban burdens of paediatric asthma incidence attributable to ambient NO pollution: estimates from global datasets.”, Lancet Planet Health, 2019.

P. Hystad, Duong, M. L., Brauer, M., Larkin, A., Arku, R., Kurmi, O. P., Fan, W. Qi, Avezum, A., Azam, I., Chifamba, J., Dans, A., Plessis, J. L. du, Gupta, R., Kumar, R., Lanas, F., Liu, Z., Lu, Y., Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Mony, P., Mohan, V., Mohan, D., Nair, S., Puoane, T., Rahman, O., Lap, A. Tse, Wang, Y., Wei, L., Yeates, K., Rangarajan, S., Teo, K., and Yusuf, S., “Health Effects of Household Solid Fuel Use: Findings from 11 Countries within the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology Study.”, Environ Health Perspect, vol. 127, no. 5, p. 57003, 2019.

T. Christidis, Erickson, A. C., Pappin, A. J., Crouse, D. L., Pinault, L. L., Weichenthal, S. A., Brook, J. R., van Donkelaar, A., Hystad, P., Martin, R. V., Tjepkema, M., Burnett, R. T., and Brauer, M., “Low concentrations of fine particle air pollution and mortality in the Canadian Community Health Survey cohort.”, Environ Health, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 84, 2019.

S. Yusuf, Joseph, P., Rangarajan, S., Islam, S., Mente, A., Hystad, P., Brauer, M., Kutty, V. Raman, Gupta, R., Wielgosz, A., AlHabib, K. F., Dans, A., Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Avezum, A., Lanas, F., Oguz, A., Kruger, I. M., Diaz, R., Yusoff, K., Mony, P., Chifamba, J., Yeates, K., Kelishadi, R., Yusufali, A., Khatib, R., Rahman, O., Zatonska, K., Iqbal, R., Wei, L., Bo, H., Rosengren, A., Kaur, M., Mohan, V., Lear, S. A., Teo, K. K., Leong, D., O'Donnell, M., McKee, M., and Dagenais, G., “Modifiable risk factors, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 155 722 individuals from 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study.”, Lancet, 2019.

R. E. Arku, Birch, A., Shupler, M., Yusuf, S., Hystad, P., and Brauer, M., “Characterizing exposure to household air pollution within the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study.”, Environ Int, vol. 114, pp. 307-317, 2018.

L. Pinault, Brauer, M., Crouse, D. L., Weichenthal, S., Erickson, A., van Donkelaar, A., Martin, R. V., Charbonneau, S., Hystad, P., Brook, J. R., Tjepkema, M., Christidis, T., Menard, R., Robichaud, A., and Burnett, R. T., “Diabetes status and susceptibility to the effects of PM2.5 exposure on cardiovascular mortality in a national Canadian cohort.”, Epidemiology, 2018.

L. L. Pinault, Weichenthal, S., Crouse, D. L., Brauer, M., Erickson, A., van Donkelaar, A., Martin, R. V., Hystad, P., Chen, H., Finès, P., Brook, J. R., Tjepkema, M., and Burnett, R. T., “Associations between fine particulate matter and mortality in the 2001 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort.”, Environ Res, vol. 159, pp. 406-415, 2017.

A. Larkin, Geddes, J. A., Martin, R. V., Xiao, Q., Liu, Y., Marshall, J. D., Brauer, M., and Hystad, P., “A Global Land Use Regression Model for Nitrogen Dioxide Air Pollution.”, Environ Sci Technol, 2017.

D. L. Crouse, Peters, P. A., Hystad, P., Brook, J. R., van Donkelaar, A., Martin, R. V., Villeneuve, P. J., Jerrett, M., Goldberg, M. S., C Pope, A., Brauer, M., Brook, R. D., Robichaud, A., Menard, R., and Burnett, R. T., “Ambient PM2.5, O₃, and NO₂ Exposures and Associations with Mortality over 16 Years of Follow-Up in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC).”, Environmental health perspectives, vol. 123, no. 11, pp. 1180-6, 2015.

M. Brauer and Hystad, P., “Commentary: Cities and Health…Let Me Count the Ways”, Epidemiology, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 526 - 527, 2014.