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Kyle Steenland is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Environmental Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Noise Effects and Management

The scientist has contributed extensively to the body of knowledge on environmental health and pollutant exposures.

Notable recent publications by Kyle Steenland include:

  • "PFAS and cancer, a scoping review of the epidemiologic evidence", 2020, Environmental Research
  • "Review: Evolution of evidence on PFOA and health following the assessments of the C8 Science Panel", 2020, Environment International

Other significant papers from related scholars that contribute broadly to the field include:

  • "Carcinogenicity of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid", 2023, The Lancet Oncology
  • "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
  • "Long-term exposure to nitrogen dioxide and mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis", 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Kyle Steenland frequently collaborates with several researchers who appear consistently across their work:

  • William Checkley
  • Thomas Clasen
  • Jennifer L. Peel
  • Howard H. Chang
  • Kalpana Balakrishnan

Steenland's publications are regularly featured in certain academic venues, reflecting their core research community:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Environmental Research
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Environment International

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 age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • The State of US Health, 1990-2010: Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Jerry Abraham;Mohammed K. Ali;Miriam Alvarado

  • Cancer mortality in workers exposed to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin.

    Marilyn A. Fingerhut;William E. Halperin;David A. Marlow;Laurie A. Piacitelli

  • Epidemiologic evidence on the health effects of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).

    Kyle Steenland;Tony Fletcher;David A. Savitz

  • Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Exposures and Incident Cancers among Adults Living Near a Chemical Plant

    Vaughn Barry;Andrea Winquist;Kyle Steenland

  • Lead and cancer in humans: Where are we now?†

    Kyle Steenland;Paolo Boffetta

  • Rate of Decline in Serum PFOA Concentrations after Granular Activated Carbon Filtration at Two Public Water Systems in Ohio and West Virginia

    Scott M. Bartell;Antonia M. Calafat;Christopher Lyu;Kayoko Kato

  • Chronic neurological sequelae to organophosphate pesticide poisoning.

    K. Steenland;B. Jenkins;R. G. Ames;Michael O'Malley

  • The global burden of disease due to occupational carcinogens.

    Timothy Driscoll;Deborah Imel Nelson;Deborah Imel Nelson;Kyle Steenland;James Leigh

  • Association of Perfluorooctanoic Acid and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate With Serum Lipids Among Adults Living Near a Chemical Plant

    Kyle Steenland;Sarah Tinker;Stephanie Frisbee;Alan Ducatman

  • An overview of methods for calculating the burden of disease due to specific risk factors.

    Kyle Steenland;Ben Armstrong

  • Cancer, Heart Disease, and Diabetes in Workers Exposed to 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin

    Kyle Steenland;Laurie Piacitelli;James Deddens;Marilyn Fingerhut

  • Perfluorooctanoic acid, perfluorooctanesulfonate, and serum lipids in children and adolescents: results from the C8 Health Project.

    Stephanie J. Frisbee;Anoop Shankar;Sarah S. Knox;Kyle Steenland

  • Dying for work: The magnitude of US mortality from selected causes of death associated with occupation.

    Kyle Steenland;Carol Burnett;Nina Lalich;Elizabeth Ward;Elizabeth Ward

  • Dioxin revisited: developments since the 1997 IARC classification of dioxin as a human carcinogen.

    N. Kyle Steenland;Pier A Bertazzi;Andrea A. Baccarelli;Manolis Kogevinas

  • Indirect methods of assessing the effects of tobacco use in occupational studies

    Olav Axelson;Kyle Steenland

  • All-Cause and Cause-specific Death Rates by Educational Status for Two Million People in Two American Cancer Society Cohorts, 1959–1996

    Kyle Steenland;Jane Henley;Michael Thun

  • Cancer incidence in the National Health and Nutrition Survey I. Follow-up data: diabetes, cholesterol, pulse and physical activity.

    Kyle Steenland;Sue Nowlin;Sue Palu

  • Pooled exposure-response analyses and risk assessment for lung cancer in 10 cohorts of silica-exposed workers: an IARC multicentre study.

    Kyle Steenland;Andrea Mannetje;Paolo Boffetta;Leslie Stayner

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan I. Levey
Allan I. Levey Emory University
Felicia C. Goldstein
Felicia C. Goldstein Emory University
Thomas Clasen
Thomas Clasen Emory University
Dana B. Barr
Dana B. Barr Emory University
Elizabeth M. Ward
Elizabeth M. Ward American Cancer Society
Kurt Straif
Kurt Straif International Agency For Research On Cancer
David A. Savitz
David A. Savitz Brown University
Kalpana Balakrishnan
Kalpana Balakrishnan Sri Ramachandra University
Roel Vermeulen
Roel Vermeulen Utrecht University
Ben Armstrong
Ben Armstrong London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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