GBD MAPS: A Global Approach
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Dr. Michael Brauer is a professor at The University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health – Occupational and Environmental Health Division and an affiliate professor and principal research scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. He also holds associate appointments in the Division of Respiratory Medicine and the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability at The University of British Columbia. His research focuses on linkages between the built environment and human health, with specific interest in transportation-related and biomass air pollution, the global health impacts of air pollution, and relationships between multiple exposures mediated by urban form and population health. He has conducted monitoring and epidemiological studies throughout the world and served on numerous advisory committees (e.g., World Health Organization, Climate and Clean Air Coalition, the U.S. National Academies, and Royal Society of Canada). Dr. Randall V. Martin is currently the Raymond R. Tucker Distinguished Professor in the Washington University in St. Louis Department of Energy Environmental and Chemical Engineering and was previously a professor at the Dalhousie University Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science. His research focuses on characterizing atmospheric composition to inform effective policies surrounding major environmental and public health challenges ranging from air quality to climate change. He leads a research group at the interface of satellite remote sensing and global modeling, with applications that include population exposure for health studies, top-down constraints on emissions, and analysis of processes that affect atmospheric composition. Dr. Erin McDuffie is currently a visiting research associate at Washington University in St. Louis Department of Energy Environmental and Chemical Engineering and was previ-
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ously a postdoctoral research fellow at Dalhousie University Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science. She is also currently an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow. Her research focuses on using interdisciplinary science, collaboration, and communication to study the impacts of human activity on atmospheric processes and the resulting feedbacks on human health and the environment. Dr. Hao Yin is a postdoctoral researcher at The University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health – Occupational and Environmental Health Division. Her research focuses on estimating the disease burden and economic cost of air pollution and other environmental risks. The results of her interdisciplinary research enable policymakers to balance environmental regulations and economic development, while advancing social equity and environmental sustainability. She has directed a project to explore the interaction between global health cost attributable to ambient PM2.5 and population aging.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS RESULTING FROM THIS RESEARCH Additional Materials 1: McDuffie EE, Smith SJ, O’Rourke P, Tibrewal K, Venkataraman C, Marais EA, et al. 2020. A global anthropogenic emission inventory of atmospheric pollutants from sector- and fuel-specific sources (1970–2017): An application of the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS). Earth Syst Sci Data 12:3413–3442; doi:10.5194/essd-12-34132020. Additional Materials 2: McDuffie EE, Martin RV, Spadaro J, Burnett R, Smith SJ, O’Rourke P, et al. 2021. Source sector and fuel contributions to ambient PM2.5 and attributable mortality across multiple spatial scales. Nat Commun 12:3594; doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23853-y.
