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Environmental Sciences

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2009 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Bert Brunekreef is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and is primarily engaged in research within the field of Environmental Science. Their work mainly focuses on health-related impacts of environmental factors, with a significant emphasis on air quality and its effects on human health.

The main fields of study associated with their research include Environmental Science, with subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Speech and Hearing, Environmental Engineering, and General Health Professions. The central topics in their work cover:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Brunekreef has collaborated frequently with multiple researchers over time. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
  • Kees de Hoogh
  • Massimo Stafoggia
  • Evangelia Samoli
  • Jie Chen

Their research has been published repeatedly in several scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Environment International
  • European Respiratory Journal
  • Environmental Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Among recent research outputs, Brunekreef has contributed to studies such as:

  • Long-term exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations and mortality among 28 million people: results from seven large European cohorts within the ELAPSE project (2022), published in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Long term exposure to low level air pollution and mortality in eight European cohorts within the ELAPSE project: pooled analysis (2021), published in BMJ
  • Long-term exposure to low-level ambient air pollution and incidence of stroke and coronary heart disease: a pooled analysis of six European cohorts within the ELAPSE project (2021), published in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • WHO Air Quality Guidelines 2021-Aiming for Healthier Air for all: A Joint Statement by Medical, Public Health, Scientific Societies and Patient Representative Organisations (2021), published in International Journal of Public Health
  • Long-term low-level ambient air pollution exposure and risk of lung cancer - A pooled analysis of 7 European cohorts (2020), published in Environment International

Brunekreef was elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Best Publications

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015

    Aaron J Cohen;Michael Brauer;Richard Burnett;H Ross Anderson

  • Air pollution and health.

    Bert Brunekreef;Stephen T Holgate

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter

    Richard Burnett;Hong Chen;Mieczysław Szyszkowicz;Neal Fann

  • Association between mortality and indicators of traffic-related air pollution in the Netherlands: a cohort study

    Gerard Hoek;Bert Brunekreef;Sandra Goldbohm;Paul Fischer

  • Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts : Prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

    Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen;Rob Beelen;Evangelia Samoli

  • Long-term air pollution exposure and cardio- respiratory mortality: a review.

    Gerard Hoek;Ranjini M Krishnan;Rob Beelen;Annette Peters

  • Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality : An analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

    Rob Beelen;Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

  • Development of Land Use Regression Models for PM2.5, PM2.5 Absorbance, PM10 and PMcoarse in 20 European Study Areas; Results of the ESCAPE Project

    Marloes Eeftens;Rob Beelen;Kees de Hoogh;Tom Bellander

  • Black carbon as an additional indicator of the adverse health effects of airborne particles compared with PM10 and PM2.5.

    Nicole A.H. Janssen;Gerard Hoek;Milena Simic-Lawson;Paul Douglas Fischer

  • Development of NO2 and NOx land use regression models for estimating air pollution exposure in 36 study areas in Europe - The ESCAPE project

    Rob Beelen;Gerard Hoek;Danielle Vienneau;Marloes Eeftens

  • Epidemiological evidence of effects of coarse airborne particles on health

    B. Brunekreef;B. Forsberg

  • DNA Methylation in Newborns and Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy: Genome-wide Consortium Meta-analysis

    Bonnie R. Joubert;Janine F. Felix;Paul Yousefi;Kelly M. Bakulski

  • Air pollution from traffic and the development of respiratory infections and asthmatic and allergic symptoms in children

    Michael Brauer;Gerard Hoek;Patricia Van Vliet;Kees Meliefste

  • Air pollution from truck traffic and lung function in children living near motorways.

    B. Brunekreef;N.A.H. Janssen;J. de Hartog;H. Harssema

  • Long-Term Effects of Traffic-Related Air Pollution on Mortality in a Dutch Cohort (NLCS-AIR Study)

    Rob Beelen;Gerard Hoek;Piet A. van den Brandt;R. Alexandra Goldbohm

  • Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and incidence of acute coronary events: prospective cohort study and meta-analysis in 11 European cohorts from the ESCAPE Project

    Giulia Cesaroni;Francesco Forastiere;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana J Andersen

  • Air pollution and development of asthma, allergy and infections in a birth cohort.

    M. Brauer;G. Hoek;H. A. Smit;J. C. de Jongste

  • Motor Vehicle Exhaust and Chronic Respiratory Symptoms in Children Living near Freeways

    P van Vliet;M Knape;J de Hartog;N Janssen

  • Effect of exposure to traffic on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age : a cohort study. Commentary

    Thomas Sandström;Bert Brunekreef;W. James Gauderman;Hita Vora

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard Hoek
Gerard Hoek Utrecht University
Marjan Kerkhof
Marjan Kerkhof University Medical Center Groningen
Ulrike Gehring
Ulrike Gehring Utrecht University
Kees de Hoogh
Kees de Hoogh Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Alet H. Wijga
Alet H. Wijga Centre for Health Protection
Gerard H. Koppelman
Gerard H. Koppelman University Medical Center Groningen
Rob Beelen
Rob Beelen Utrecht University
Marloes Eeftens
Marloes Eeftens Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Göran Pershagen
Göran Pershagen Karolinska Institute
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen Barcelona Institute for Global Health

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