EPRI Health Effects Research Presented at Dublin Conference
EPRI’s Ron Wyzga participated in the recent 2009 Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) in Dublin, Ireland.  His oral presentation, “Monitoring to resolve the air quality–health issue,” provided an overview of air quality monitoring in the United States, the limitations of current epidemiological studies, and the need for additional monitoring and toxicological studies to resolve key uncertainties.  EPRI-linked research was also presented in poster sessions:

• Sinclair, A., Edgerton, E., Wyzga, R., and Tolsma, D. “A comparison of the effects of ambient air pollution on outpatient visits for acute respiratory illnesses over two time periods.”
• Sinclair, A., Melly, S., Tolsma, D., Wyzga, R., Spengler, J., and Rohr, A. “Childhood asthma acute primary care visits, traffic, and traffic-related pollutants.”
• Klemm, R., Wyzga, R., and Thomas, E. “Comparison of estimated effects of air pollution on human mortality calculated via SPlus and SAS.”
• Klemm, R., Wyzga, R., and Thomas, E. “Daily mortality and air pollution in Atlanta: August 1998–December 2006.”

For more information, contact Ron Wyzga, (650) 855-2132, rwyzga@epri.com.