environmental health Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Regulation of fine particulate matter in the Pacific Rim: perspectives from the APRU Global Health Program

Posted on August 4, 2017April 10, 2019

While the development of evidence-based air quality standards for airborne particulate matter (PM) for Europe and North America is well-documented, the standard-setting processes in other regions are less well characterized. ... read more →

Dr. Jonathan M. Samet receives 2016 Fries Prize for Improving Health

Posted on November 18, 2016August 17, 2018

Samet Honored for Advocacy and Research on Health Risks of Inhaled Pollutants Distinguished Professor Jonathan Samet, director of the USC Institute for Global Health and Flora L. Thornton Chair of the Department of Preventiv... read more →

USC training launches a new era of air pollution health research in eastern Africa

Posted on June 30, 2016August 17, 2018

Working to save lives through prevention and policy, eastern African researchers trained with expert environmental health scientists at USC to lay the groundwork for air pollution and health research in their countries. (mo... read more →

NPR: Korea’s Air Is Dirty, But It’s Not All Close-Neighbor China’s Fault

Posted on June 4, 2016August 17, 2018

An estimated 1.3 billion people in the East Asia and Pacific region are breathing unsafe, unclean air each day. USC Institute for Global Health Director Dr. Jonathan Samet comments on Korea's poor air quality for NPR's story... read more →

Air Pollution: A Worsening Global Health Problem

Posted on November 18, 2015August 17, 2018

Director of the USC Institute for Global Health Jonathan Samet presented at the UCLA Center for World Health Nov. 5 regarding the rising global health threat: air pollution. In addition, National Geographic quoted him in i... read more →

USC to partner on air pollution and health study in Eastern Africa

Posted on October 13, 2015January 7, 2016

We are honored to be working with Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia to develop the newly funded GEOHealth Network as part of the Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub—one of seven hubs around the world. Over the next five years, U.... read more →

Air pollution, health, and human rights

Posted on October 22, 2014August 21, 2018

The activities of human beings contaminate the air with toxic pollutants. Air pollution has both short-term and long-term adverse effects, and contributes to non-communicable diseases.1 The Forum of International Respiratory ... read more →

Climate change and human rights: Roles, responsibilities, and actions

Posted on April 1, 2014August 21, 2018

The world's climate is changing, with insidious effects that steadily erode the quality of life of those who depend on the environment. The dramatic effects of this change are evident in the form of an exceptional accumulatio... read more →