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Nigel Bruce is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily centers around environmental science and social sciences, with a significant focus on pollution and its health impacts. Within these broad fields, they have contributed to subfields including pollution, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, law, global and planetary change, and sociology and political science.

Their work spans several main topics such as energy and environment impacts, air quality and health impacts, the COVID-19 impact on air quality, participatory visual research methods, aging and gerontology research, health disparities and outcomes, and food security and health in diverse populations.

Nigel Bruce has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Daniel Pope, Mukesh Dherani, Terence Tafatatha, Ellen Heinsbroek, and Ryan Chartier.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Nigel Bruce include:

  • Are cleaner cooking solutions clean enough? A systematic review and meta-analysis of particulate and carbon monoxide concentrations and exposures (2021, Environmental Research Letters)
  • How is Respect and Social Inclusion Conceptualised by Older Adults in an Aspiring Age-Friendly City? A Photovoice Study in the North-West of England (2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • Association between household air pollution and nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage in Malawian infants (MSCAPE): a nested, prospective, observational study (2022, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Household air pollution in low- and middle-income countries: health risks and research priorities (2022, UNC Libraries)
  • Household Air Pollution (HAP) is Associated With Increased Pneumococcal Carriage in Malawian Infants - Malawi Streptococcus pneumoniae Carriage and Air Pollution Exposure (MSCAPE) Study (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Their work has appeared in a range of journals, including:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • The Lancet Global Health
  • UNC Libraries
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

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

  • 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

  • Indoor air pollution in developing countries: a major environmental and public health challenge

    Nigel Bruce;Rogelio Perez-Padilla;Rachel Albalak

  • An Integrated Risk Function for Estimating the Global Burden of Disease Attributable to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter Exposure

    Richard T. Burnett;C. Arden Pope;Majid Ezzati;Casey Olives

  • Indoor air pollution in developing countries and acute lower respiratory infections in children

    Kirk R Smith;Jonathan M Samet;Isabelle Romieu;Nigel Bruce

  • Respiratory risks from household air pollution in low and middle income countries

    Stephen B. Gordon;Nigel G. Bruce;Jonathan Grigg;Patricia L. Hibberd

  • Solid fuel use for household cooking: country and regional estimates for 1980-2010.

    Sophie Bonjour;Heather Adair-Rohani;Jennyfer Wolf;Nigel G. Bruce

  • Indoor air pollution from biomass fuel smoke is a major health concern in the developing world

    Duncan G. Fullerton;Nigel Bruce;Stephen B. Gordon

  • Millions Dead: How Do We Know and What Does It Mean? Methods Used in the Comparative Risk Assessment of Household Air Pollution

    Kirk R. Smith;Nigel Bruce;Kalpana Balakrishnan;Heather Adair-Rohani

  • Indoor air pollution from unprocessed solid fuel use and pneumonia risk in children aged under five years: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Mukesh Dherani;Daniel Pope;Maya Mascarenhas;Kirk R Smith

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: overview and implications for policy makers

    Andy Haines;Anthony J McMichael;Kirk R Smith;Ian Roberts

  • Effect of reduction in household air pollution on childhood pneumonia in Guatemala (RESPIRE): a randomised controlled trial

    Kirk R Smith;John P McCracken;John P McCracken;Martin W Weber;Alan Hubbard

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: household energy

    Paul Wilkinson;Kirk R Smith;Michael Davies;Heather Adair

  • Risk of low birth weight and stillbirth associated with indoor air pollution from solid fuel use in developing countries

    Daniel P. Pope;Vinod Mishra;Lisa Thompson;Amna Rehana Siddiqui

  • Birth weight and exposure to kitchen wood smoke during pregnancy in rural Guatemala.

    Erick Boy;Nigel Bruce;Hernán Delgado

  • A cleaner burning biomass-fuelled cookstove intervention to prevent pneumonia in children under 5 years old in rural Malawi (the Cooking and Pneumonia Study): a cluster randomised controlled trial.

    Kevin Mortimer;Kevin Mortimer;Chifundo B Ndamala;Andrew W Naunje;Jullita Malava

  • Enablers and Barriers to Large-Scale Uptake of Improved Solid Fuel Stoves: A Systematic Review

    Eva Annette Rehfuess;Elisa Puzzolo;Debbi Stanistreet;Daniel Pope

  • Clean fuels for resource-poor settings: A systematic review of barriers and enablers to adoption and sustained use.

    Elisa Puzzolo;Daniel Pope;Debbi Stanistreet;Eva A. Rehfuess

  • Effect of Reducing Indoor Air Pollution on Women's Respiratory Symptoms and Lung Function: The RESPIRE Randomized Trial, Guatemala

    Tone Smith-Sivertsen;Esperanza Díaz;Dan Pope;Rolv T. Lie

  • Quantitative Methods for Health Research

    Nigel Bruce;Daniel Pope;Debbi Stanistreet

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirk R. Smith
Kirk R. Smith University of California, Berkeley
John R. Balmes
John R. Balmes University of California, Berkeley
Eva Rehfuess
Eva Rehfuess Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Charles R. Newton
Charles R. Newton University of Oxford
Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington
Neil Pearce
Neil Pearce London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
David Gunnell
David Gunnell University of Bristol
Anthony D. Woolf
Anthony D. Woolf Royal Cornwall Hospital
Kalpana Balakrishnan
Kalpana Balakrishnan Sri Ramachandra University
Theo Vos
Theo Vos Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

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