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Air Toxics Exposures Among Teenagers in New York City and Los Angeles - A Columbia-Harvard Study (TEACH)

EPA Grant Number: R824834C001
Subproject: this is subproject number 001 , established and managed by the Center Director under grant R824834
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
Center: Health Effects Institute (2015 - 2020)
Center Director: Greenbaum, Daniel S.
Title: Air Toxics Exposures Among Teenagers in New York City and Los Angeles - A Columbia-Harvard Study (TEACH)
Investigators: Kinney, Patrick L. , Pederson, Dee C. , Spengler, John D. , Ross, James M. , Johnson, Dave , Aggarwal, Maneesha , Ramstrom, Sonja , Chillrud, Steven
Institution: Columbus State University , Harvard University
EPA Project Officer: Chung, Serena
Project Period: December 1, 1997 through December 31, 2000
RFA: Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC) (1997) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Congressionally Mandated Center , Urban Air Toxics , Targeted Research

Objective:

This study will examine personal exposure rates to air toxics in two heavily polluted urban areas, New York and Los Angeles. The air toxics that will be monitored are volatile organic compounds (VOCs), aldehydes, and particulate matter (PM) from area point, mobile, and non-anthropogenic sources. The study will provide information on the roles of seasons, days of the week, different meteorological conditions, and daily activities on exposures to these urban air toxics.

Approach:

This study will monitor students at the A. Phillip Randolph High School in New York and the Jefferson High School in Los Angeles, specifically their exposures to indoor, outdoor, and personal air toxics. We will conduct two pilot studies, first to test experiment design, and second to evaluate logistical concerns. These will prepare us for the four field measurement campaigns, one in the winter and one in the summer for both cities. In addition we will conduct 48 hour sampling on the two school rooftops and at a non-urban upwind location.

Expected Results:

This study will provide descriptive data for minority children in the central core neighborhoods of the two largest urban areas of the United States. In addition, the study will provide city and season specific information relating personal air toxics exposures to outdoor concentrations, home characteristics, activity patterns and other factors.

Publications and Presentations:

Publications have been submitted on this subproject: View all 6 publications for this subproject | View all 144 publications for this center

Supplemental Keywords:

air pollution, urban, monitoring, exposure, methods, indoor air, volatile organic compounds, VOCs, particulate matter, PM2.5, New York, NY, Los Angeles, LA, California, CA., RFA, Health, Scientific Discipline, Air, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, particulate matter, Air Pollution, air toxics, Health Risk Assessment, Air Pollution Effects, Epidemiology, Risk Assessments, Biochemistry, Environmental Monitoring, Children's Health, Environmental Policy, Risk Assessment, health effects, urban air quality, urban air, air pollutants, human health effects, exposure, airway disease, environmental risks, children, human exposure, lung inflamation, particulate exposure, childhood respiratory disease, children's vulnerablity, urban air pollution, sensitive subgroups, children's environmental health, PM, human health, California, minority children, airborne urban contaminants, biomarker, human health risk

Progress and Final Reports:

Main Center Abstract and Reports:

R824834 Health Effects Institute (2015 - 2020)

Subprojects under this Center: (EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R824834C001 Air Toxics Exposures Among Teenagers in New York City and Los Angeles - A Columbia-Harvard Study (TEACH)
R824834C002 Cardiopulmonary Response to Particulate Exposure
R824834C003 VOC Exposure in an Industry Impacted Community
R824834C004 A Study of Personal Exposure to Air Toxics Among a Subset of the Residential U.S. Population (VOC Project)
R824834C005 Methods Development Project for a Study of Personal Exposures to Toxic Air Pollutants
R824834C006 Relationship Between Indoor, Outdoor and Personal Air (RIOPA)
R824834C007 Development of the "Leland Legacy" Air Sampling Pump
R824834C008 Source Apportionment of Indoor Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Urban Residences
R824834C009 Development of a Personal Cascade Impactor Sampler (PCIS)
R824834C010 Testing the Metals Hypothesis in Spokane
R828678C001 Air Toxics Exposures Among Teenagers in New York City and Los Angeles—A Columbia-Harvard Study (TEACH)
R828678C002 Cardiopulmonary Effects of Metal-Containing Particulate Exposure
R828678C003 VOC Exposure in an Industry Impacted Community
R828678C004 A Study of Personal Exposure to Air Toxics Among a Subset of the Residential U.S. Population (VOC Project)
R828678C005 Oxygenated Urban Air Toxics and Asthma Variability in Middle School Children: A Panel Study (ATAC–Air Toxics and Asthma in Children)
R828678C006 Relationship between Indoor, Outdoor and Personal Air (RIOPA). Part II: Analyses of Concentrations of Particulate Matter Species
R828678C007 Development of the “Leland Legacy” Air Sampling Pump
R828678C008 Source Apportionment of Indoor PAHs in Urban Residences 98-03B
R828678C009 Development of a Personal Cascade Impactor Sampler (PCIS)
R828678C010 Testing the Metals Hypothesis in Spokane
R828678C011 A Pilot Geospatial Analysis of Exposure to Air Pollutants (with Special Attention to Air Toxics) and Hospital Admissions in Harris County, Texas
R828678C012 Impact of Exposure to Urban Air Toxics on Asthma Utilization for the Pediatric Medicaid Population in Dearborn, Michigan
R828678C013 Field Validation of the Sioutas Sampler and Leland Legacy Pump – Joint Project with EPA’s Environmental Technology Validation Program (ETV)
R828678C014 Performance Evaluation of the 3M Charcoal Vapor Monitor for Monitor Low Ambient Concentrations of VOCs
R828678C015 RIOPA Database Development
R828678C016 Contributions of Outdoor PM Sources to Indoor and Personal Exposures: Analysis of PM Species Concentrations” Focused on the PM Speciation and Apportioning of Sources
R828678C017 The Short and Long-Term Respiratory Effects of Exposure to PAHs from Traffic in a Cohort of Asthmatic Children

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