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Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, BerkeleyType of OrganizationUniversity (research and training)Name and address of the OrganizationEnvironmental Health Sciences,School of Public Health, 140 Warren Hall #7360, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94702, United States of America Name of the person to contactProfessor Kirk R. Smith, krksmith@...Work profile in brief:To study the health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollution in developing countriesList of projects done on Household EnergyOne of our masters students has recently conducted a case-control study at Lumbini Eye Hospital on the Nepal/India border (half the patients are from India) looking at the development of cataracts among women as a result of exposure to IAP. This hospital-based study enrolled and administered a questionnaire to 200 cases and 200 controls. The results of the study will be presented at the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology conference in Perth later this year and a manuscript is forthcoming. We are hoping to conduct a similar study in Chennai with our SRMC (Sri Ramachandra Medical College) partners.We are in the planning stages of a multi-site TB case-control study in Chandigarh (PGI), Lucknow (KGMC), Chennai (SRMC) and (possibly) Nepal. A workshop is planned for December 2003 in Delhi during which the study instruments and details will be worked out between the participating institutions. The aim of this study is to determine whether there is an association between development of active pulmonary TB and exposure to IAP. Our partners in Chennai (SRMC), are piloting instruments and methodologies to be applied to a cohort study among young children for acute respiratory infections. The final plan will be put in place at the same Delhi workshop. With TERI, Delhi, we have measured emission factors for about 4 dozen health-damaging and climate-related pollutants from 30 common fuel/stove combinations used in India. A range of technical and policy analyses are being done with this database and published in the scientific literature. Finally, one of our masters students has piloted and field tested equipment for monitoring kits in Pune this summer that were developed for the Shell Foundation's HEH project. These monitoring kits are designed to allow assessment of the success of NGO-based programs for large-scale stove implementation in India, Mexico, and Guatemala that are funded by the Shell Foundation. These kits will address three aread: (1) energy and efficiency of stoves, (2) health outcomes, and (3) reduction in indoor air pollution. Training in the use of these kits is slated for later this year. We also have a database of global studies on IAQ in LDC households done recently for WHO and available at http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/news/database.htm Related linkhttp://www.teriin.org/indoor/indoor.htm | |
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