public health
Exploring spatial heterogeneity in synergistic effects of compound climate hazards: Extreme heat and wildfire smoke on cardiorespiratory hospitalizations in California
Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type
Extreme heat and wildfire smoke events are increasingly co-occurring in the context of climate change, especially in California. Extreme heat and wildfire smoke may have synergistic effects on population health that vary over space.
Exposure to wildfires and health outcomes of vulnerable people: Evidence from US data
Year of Publication
2023
Publication Type
This paper investigates the causal effect of wildfire exposure on birth outcomes and older people’s health outcomes in United States (US).
Quantifying the smoke-related public health trade-offs of forest management
Year of Publication
2023
Publication Type
Prescribed burning can mitigate extreme wildfire risk and reduce total smoke emissions. Yet prescribed burns’ emissions may also contribute to smoke exposures in nearby communities. Incorporating public health considerations into forest management planning efforts may help reduce prescribed burn-related exposure impacts.
Long-term mortality burden trends attributed to black carbon and PM2·5 from wildfire emissions across the continental USA from 2000 to 2020: a deep learning modelling study
Year of Publication
2023
Publication Type
Background
Long-term improvements in air quality and public health in the continental USA were disrupted over the past decade by increased fire emissions that potentially offset the decrease in anthropogenic emissions.
Metal toxin threat in wildland fires determined by geology and fire severity
Year of Publication
2023
Publication Type
Accentuated by climate change, catastrophic wildfires are a growing, distributed global public health risk from inhalation of smoke and dust. Underrecognized, however, are the health threats arising from fire-altered toxic metals natural to soils and plants.
More smoke today for less smoke tomorrow? We need to better understand the public health benefits and costs of prescribed fire
Year of Publication
2022
Publication Type
Rapidly scaling up the use of prescribed fire is being promoted as an important pathway for reducing the growing damages of wildfire events in the United States, including limiting the health impacts from smoke emissions.
Comparing particulate morphology generated from human-made cellulosic fuels to natural vegetative fuels
Year of Publication
2022
Publication Type
Background: In wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires, particulates from the combustion of both natural vegetative fuels and engineered cellulosic fuels may have deleterious effects on the environment. Aims: The research was conducted to investigate the morphology of the particulate samples generated from the combustion of oriented strand board (OSB).
Wildfire, Smoke Exposure, Human Health, and Environmental Justice Need to be Integrated into Forest Restoration and Management
Year of Publication
2022
Publication Type
Purpose of Review: Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a transdisciplinary perspective. Climate change and more than a century of fire exclusion and wildfire suppression have led to contemporary wildfires with more severe environmental impacts and human smoke exposure.
Comparing particulate morphology generated from human- made cellulosic fuels to natural vegetative fuels
Year of Publication
2022
Publication Type
Background. In wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires, particulates from the combustion of both natural vegetative fuels and engineered cellulosic fuels may have deleterious effects on the environ- ment. Aims. The research was conducted to investigate the morphology of the particulate samples generated from the combustion of oriented strand board (OSB).