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Howard H. Chang is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and medicine, with significant contributions to understanding health impacts related to air quality and pollution.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Medicine

Within these broader areas, their work covers subfields such as:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Pollution
  • Epidemiology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Research topics explored by Howard H. Chang include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Birth, Development, and Health

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with a focus on environmental and health-related journals and conferences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environment International

Howard H. Chang has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, such as:

  • Stefanie Ebelt
  • Noah Scovronick
  • Kyle Steenland
  • Rohan R. D'Souza
  • Thomas Clasen

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Howard H. Chang include:

  • "Urban Air Pollution May Enhance COVID-19 Case-Fatality and Mortality Rates in the United States," 2020, The Innovation
  • "Incorporating Low-Cost Sensor Measurements into High-Resolution PM 2.5 Modeling at a Large Spatial Scale," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "A national cohort study (2000-2018) of long-term air pollution exposure and incident dementia in older adults in the United States," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Urban Air Pollution May Enhance COVID-19 Case-Fatality and Mortality Rates in the United States," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Incident dementia and long-term exposure to constituents of fine particle air pollution: A national cohort study in the United States," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea

    Thomas F Clasen;Kelly T Alexander;David Sinclair;Sophie Boisson

  • Coarse Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Hospital Admissions for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases Among Medicare Patients

    Roger D. Peng;Howard H. Chang;Michelle L. Bell;Aidan McDermott

  • Reactive Oxygen Species Generation Linked to Sources of Atmospheric Particulate Matter and Cardiorespiratory Effects.

    Josephine T. Bates;Rodney J. Weber;Joseph Abrams;Vishal Verma

  • Oxidative potential of ambient water-soluble PM 2.5 in the southeastern United States: contrasts in sources and health associations between ascorbic acid (AA) and dithiothreitol (DTT) assays

    Ting Fang;Vishal Verma;Josephine T. Bates;Joseph Abrams

  • An Ensemble Machine-Learning Model To Predict Historical PM2.5 Concentrations in China from Satellite Data.

    Qingyang Xiao;Howard H. Chang;Guannan Geng;Yang Liu

  • Full-coverage high-resolution daily PM 2.5 estimation using MAIAC AOD in the Yangtze River Delta of China

    Qingyang Xiao;Yujie Wang;Yujie Wang;Howard H. Chang;Xia Meng

  • Female sexual function and pelvic floor disorders.

    Victoria L. Handa;Geoffrey Cundiff;Howard H. Chang;Kathy J. Helzlsouer

  • Urban Air Pollution May Enhance COVID-19 Case-Fatality and Mortality Rates in the United States.

    Donghai Liang;Liuhua Shi;Jingxuan Zhao;Pengfei Liu

  • A national cohort study (2000–2018) of long-term air pollution exposure and incident dementia in older adults in the United States

    Liuhua Shi;Kyle Steenland;Haomin Li;Pengfei Liu

  • Data integration model for air quality: a hierarchical approach to the global estimation of exposures to ambient air pollution

    Gavin Shaddick;Gavin Shaddick;Matthew L. Thomas;Amelia Green;Michael Brauer

  • Incorporating Low-Cost Sensor Measurements into High-Resolution PM2.5 Modeling at a Large Spatial Scale.

    Jianzhao Bi;Avani Wildani;Howard H Chang;Yang Liu

  • Improving the Accuracy of Daily PM2.5 Distributions Derived from the Fusion of Ground-Level Measurements with Aerosol Optical Depth Observations, a Case Study in North China.

    Baolei Lv;Yongtao Hu;Howard H. Chang;Armistead G. Russell

  • Associations between Ambient Fine Particulate Oxidative Potential and Cardiorespiratory Emergency Department Visits.

    Joseph Y Abrams;Rodney J Weber;Mitchel Klein;Stefanie E Sarnat

  • Associations of wildfire smoke PM2.5 exposure with cardiorespiratory events in Colorado 2011-2014.

    Jennifer D. Stowell;Guannan Geng;Eri Saikawa;Howard H. Chang

  • Use of high-resolution metabolomics for the identification of metabolic signals associated with traffic-related air pollution.

    Donghai Liang;Jennifer L. Moutinho;Rachel Golan;Tianwei Yu

  • Age-Specific Associations of Ozone and Fine Particulate Matter with Respiratory Emergency Department Visits in the United States.

    Heather M Strosnider;Howard H Chang;Lyndsey A Darrow;Yang Liu

  • Incident dementia and long-term exposure to constituents of fine particle air pollution: A national cohort study in the United States

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  • Time-to-Event Analysis of Fine Particle Air Pollution and Preterm Birth: Results From North Carolina, 2001–2005

    Howard H. Chang;Brian J. Reich;Marie Lynn Miranda

  • Air Pollution and Preterm Birth in the U.S. State of Georgia (2002–2006): Associations with Concentrations of 11 Ambient Air Pollutants Estimated by Combining Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) Simulations with Stationary Monitor Measurements

    Hua Hao;Howard H. Chang;Heather A. Holmes;James A. Mulholland

  • Ambient air pollution and emergency department visits for asthma: a multi-city assessment of effect modification by age.

    Brooke A Alhanti;Howard H Chang;Andrea Winquist;James A Mulholland

  • Method for Fusing Observational Data and Chemical Transport Model Simulations To Estimate Spatiotemporally Resolved Ambient Air Pollution

    Mariel D. Friberg;Xinxin Zhai;Heather A. Holmes;Howard H. Chang

  • Design and Rationale of the HAPIN Study: A Multicountry Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Effect of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Stove and Continuous Fuel Distribution

    Thomas Clasen;William Checkley;Jennifer L. Peel;Kalpana Balakrishnan

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Mulholland
James A. Mulholland Georgia Institute of Technology
Matthew J. Strickland
Matthew J. Strickland University of Nevada Reno
Armistead G. Russell
Armistead G. Russell Georgia Institute of Technology
Stefanie Ebelt Sarnat
Stefanie Ebelt Sarnat Emory University
Paige E. Tolbert
Paige E. Tolbert Emory University
Jeremy A. Sarnat
Jeremy A. Sarnat Emory University
Thomas Clasen
Thomas Clasen Emory University
Mitchel Klein
Mitchel Klein Emory University
Rodney J. Weber
Rodney J. Weber Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian J. Reich
Brian J. Reich North Carolina State University

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