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2025

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21109
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  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Itai Kloog is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science with a focus on health and air quality impacts. Their research spans several subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental engineering, pollution, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, as well as speech and hearing.

Their main research topics include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Kloog's recent publications demonstrate a focus on the application of machine learning models and epidemiological research related to air pollution and health outcomes. Key papers include:

  • "Advancing methodologies for applying machine learning and evaluating spatiotemporal models of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) using satellite data over large regions," 2020, Atmospheric Environment
  • "Prenatal air pollution exposure and neurodevelopment: A review and blueprint for a harmonized approach within ECHO," 2020, Environmental Research
  • "A Random Forest Approach to Estimate Daily Particulate Matter, Nitrogen Dioxide, and Ozone at Fine Spatial Resolution in Sweden," 2020, Atmosphere
  • "A Satellite-Based Spatio-Temporal Machine Learning Model to Reconstruct Daily PM2.5 Concentrations across Great Britain," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Temperature and preeclampsia: Epidemiological evidence that perturbation in maternal heat homeostasis affects pregnancy outcome," 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent coauthors in Kloog's scientific network include Allan C. Just, Robert O. Wright, Rosalind J. Wright, Joel Schwartz, and Brent A. Coull. These collaborations illustrate a multidisciplinary approach integrating environmental science, epidemiology, and toxicology.

Their work has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Environmental Research
  • Environment International
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Epidemiology

This publication record demonstrates a concentration in environmental research contexts that intersect with public health and epidemiological investigations. Kloog has contributed significantly to studies aimed at understanding spatiotemporal air pollution modeling and the health impacts of environmental exposures.

Best Publications

  • Increasing CO2 threatens human nutrition.

    Samuel S. Myers;Antonella Zanobetti;Itai Kloog;Peter Huybers

  • An ensemble-based model of PM2.5 concentration across the contiguous United States with high spatiotemporal resolution

    Qian Di;Qian Di;Heresh Amini;Liuhua Shi;Itai Kloog

  • Assessing PM2.5 Exposures with High Spatiotemporal Resolution across the Continental United States.

    Qian Di;Itai Kloog;Petros Koutrakis;Alexei Lyapustin

  • Low-Concentration PM2.5 and Mortality: Estimating Acute and Chronic Effects in a Population-Based Study

    Liuhua Shi;Antonella Zanobetti;Itai Kloog;Brent A. Coull

  • Long- and short-term exposure to PM2.5 and mortality: using novel exposure models.

    Itai Kloog;Bill Ridgway;Petros Koutrakis;Brent A. Coull

  • Assessing temporally and spatially resolved PM2.5 exposures for epidemiological studies using satellite aerosol optical depth measurements

    Itai Kloog;Petros Koutrakis;Brent A. Coull;Hyung Joo Lee

  • Estimation of daily PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations in Italy, 2013-2015, using a spatiotemporal land-use random-forest model.

    Massimo Stafoggia;Tom Bellander;Simone Bucci;Marina Davoli

  • Prenatal Particulate Air Pollution and Asthma Onset in Urban Children. Identifying Sensitive Windows and Sex Differences

    Hsiao-Hsien Leon Hsu;Yueh-Hsiu Mathilda Chiu;Brent A. Coull;Itai Kloog

  • Light at Night Co‐distributes with Incident Breast but not Lung Cancer in the Female Population of Israel

    Itai Kloog;Abraham Haim;Richard G. Stevens;Micha Barchana

  • A New Hybrid Spatio-temporal Model for Estimating Daily Multi-year PM2.5 Concentrations Across Northeastern USA Using High Resolution Aerosol Optical Depth Data

    Itai Kloog;Alexandra A. Chudnovsky;Allan C. Just;Francesco Nordio

  • Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter, Residential Proximity to Major Roads and Measures of Brain Structure

    Elissa H. Wilker;Sarah R. Preis;Sarah R. Preis;Alexa S. Beiser;Alexa S. Beiser;Philip A. Wolf;Philip A. Wolf

  • Incorporating local land use regression and satellite aerosol optical depth in a hybrid model of spatiotemporal PM2.5 exposures in the Mid-Atlantic states.

    Itai Kloog;Francesco Nordio;Brent A. Coull;Joel Schwartz

  • Assessing NO2 Concentration and Model Uncertainty with High Spatiotemporal Resolution across the Contiguous United States Using Ensemble Model Averaging.

    Qian Di;Qian Di;Heresh Amini;Liuhua Shi;Liuhua Shi;Itai Kloog

  • Global Co‐Distribution of Light at Night (LAN) and Cancers of Prostate, Colon, and Lung in Men

    Itai Kloog;Abraham Haim;Richard G. Stevens;Boris A. Portnov

  • Prenatal particulate air pollution and neurodevelopment in urban children: Examining sensitive windows and sex-specific associations.

    Yueh-Hsiu Mathilda Chiu;Hsiao-Hsien Leon Hsu;Brent A. Coull;David C. Bellinger

  • Long-term Exposure to PM2.5 and Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Jaime Madrigano;Itai Kloog;Robert Goldberg;Brent Andrew Coull

  • Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter and Renal Function in Older Men: The Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study

    Amar J. Mehta;Antonella Zanobetti;Marie-Abele C. Bind;Itai Kloog

  • Impacts of temperature and its variability on mortality in New England

    Liuhua Shi;Itai Kloog;Antonella Zanobetti;Pengfei Liu

  • Using High-Resolution Satellite Aerosol Optical Depth To Estimate Daily PM2.5 Geographical Distribution in Mexico City.

    Allan C. Just;Robert O. Wright;Joel Schwartz;Brent A. Coull

  • Using new satellite based exposure methods to study the association between pregnancy pm2.5 exposure, premature birth and birth weight in Massachusetts

    Itai Kloog;Steven John Melly;William L Ridgway;Brent Andrew Coull

  • Acute and chronic effects of particles on hospital admissions in New-England.

    Itai Kloog;Brent A. Coull;Antonella Zanobetti;Petros Koutrakis

  • Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Residential Proximity to Major Roads and Measures of Brain Structure

    Elissa Wilker;Sarah Preis;Alexa Beiser;Philip Wolf

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel Schwartz
Joel Schwartz Harvard University
Brent A. Coull
Brent A. Coull Harvard University
Petros Koutrakis
Petros Koutrakis Harvard University
Antonella Zanobetti
Antonella Zanobetti Harvard University
Diane R. Gold
Diane R. Gold Harvard University
Andrea Baccarelli
Andrea Baccarelli Columbia University
Robert O. Wright
Robert O. Wright Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Pantel S. Vokonas
Pantel S. Vokonas Boston University
Rosalind J. Wright
Rosalind J. Wright Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Murray A. Mittleman
Murray A. Mittleman Harvard University

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