Georgia Tech NSF PIRE Team and Interdisciplinary Air Pollution and Health Research: The Southeastern Center for Air Pollution and Epidemiology (SCAPE) Ted Russell & Mike Bergin, Georgia Tech and more from GIT, Emory R

Georgia Tech NSF PIRE Team Ted Russell Mike Bergin Victor Miller –1 st year MS A graduate student to be named

A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 Lim et al., 2012, Lancet Disability Adjusted Life Years Lost by Risk Factor Colors indicate related health disorder (e.g., cancer, cardiovascular disease) (AP ~7 million related deaths/yr) 8%, ~2x10 8 Ozone exposure is ~0.2% Unimproved sanitation Childhood underweight High body mass index Ambient PM Indoor PM Smoking

Southeastern Center for Air Pollution and Epidemiology (SCAPE) Characterizing ambient air pollution mixtures and understanding their role in human health risks Key Features: Children and other vulnerable/susceptible populations Trans-disciplinary Multi-scale Co-Directors: Paige Tolbert, Emory, and Armistead (Ted) Russell, Georgia Tech RD

Atlanta Emergency Department Visits for Pediatric Asthma and Ozone Concentration Strickland MJ, Darrow LA, Klein M, Flanders WD, Sarnat JA, Waller LA, Sarnat SE, Mulholland JA, Tolbert PE: Short-term associations between ambient air pollutants and pediatric asthma emergency department visits. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2010, 182(3):

SCAPE: Providing Understanding of Critical Scientific Foundations for Improving Air Quality Improved regulation –Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Effective controls –Identify most harmful pollutants to target controls

Individual Pollutant Associations Particulate Matter Components Automotive

Personnel Paige Tolbert (Emory) and Ted Russell (GIT) co- directors Georgia Tech –Mike Bergin, Jim Mulholland, Rodney Weber, Thanos Nenes, Heahter Holmes, Talat Odman, Yongtao Hu, Sunni Ivey, Xinxin Zhai, Mariel Friberg, Jeremy Redman, Kyle Digby, Randy Guensler,… Emory –Jeremy Sarnat, Stefanie Sarnat, Matt Darrow, Mitch Klein, Dana Flanders, Lindsey Darrow, Lance Waller, Andrea Winquist, John Pierce, Kate Hodgins, Lou Ann Brown, Yang Liu, Howard Chang, Roby Greenwald, … Kaiser Permanente