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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) Research Division invites you to attend a public meeting to hear information about emerging science in the areas of assessing air pollution related health outcomes and approaches for valuation of health outcomes. The meeting will include presentations by scientific experts followed by discussion by health experts under contract to CARB and will conclude with an opportunity for public comment.
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Time: 9:00am – 1:00pm PST
Location: Zoom Webinar
Please register for the Public Meeting of Emerging Research: Air Pollution Health Outcomes and Valuation. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about how to join the webinar by computer or by telephone.
This webinar will be recorded. A link to the recording will be sent to registrants two weeks after the meeting date. The meeting agenda will be made available a week in advance of the meeting, and meeting slides will be made available the day of the meeting online.
Purpose of Meeting
The purpose of this meeting is to hear information about emerging science in the area of air pollution and health in order to better understand the current available research and methodologies to assess and quantify health outcomes and benefits. This meeting will involve several presentations by academic and governmental experts on topics including health outcomes and valuation. The presentations will be followed by questions and a panel discussion with health experts under contract to CARB (see list of scientific health experts below). Afterwards there will be a period of public comment.
Background
CARB is charged with protecting the public from the harmful effects of air pollution and developing programs and actions to carry out its mission. CARB utilizes the best available science to evaluate the health outcomes from air pollution exposure and to evaluate the benefits of actions to reduce air pollution.
The body of research on air pollution's health effects has grown substantially in the last decade, and thus CARB is holding this public meeting to discuss some of this current research. CARB has already officially added more health endpoints to the ongoing regulatory analysis in our agency based on US EPA’s 2021 update of BenMAP (see California Air Resources Board Updated Health Endpoints Bulletin - Edited Nov 2022_0.pdf). CARB has also contracted with several experts from public and private universities, who have backgrounds in epidemiology, environmental health, environmental justice, and exposure assessment to serve as scientific health experts. They have individually provided CARB staff with input on research covering quantitative and qualitative information on additional health outcomes of air pollution exposure and additional approaches for health analysis. The scientific health experts are listed below:
- Irva Hertz-Picciotto, M.P.H., Ph.D., Environmental and Occupational Health, UC Davis
- Michael Jerrett, Ph.D., Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA
- Rob Scot McConnell, MD., Population and Public Health Sciences, USC
- Penelope JE Quintana, M.P.H., Ph.D., Environmental Health, SDSU
- Bhavna Shamasunder, M.ES., Ph.D., Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College
- Tracey Woodruff, M.P.H., Ph.D., Reproductive Health and the Environment, UCSF
CARB is holding this public meeting on emerging research in the area of air pollution and health in order to better understand the best available research and methodologies available to inform CARB’s work to assess and quantify health outcomes and benefits.
Contacts
For more information, or if you require special accommodation or need this document in an alternate format (i.e., Braille, large print) or another language, please email Dr. May Bhetraratana of the Health & Ecosystems Analysis Section in the Research Division.
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