Highlighted Publications
Low-cost temperature loggers as stove use monitors (SUMs), Boiling Point, 55:16-19, 2008.
WHO Air Quality Guidelines: Moving indoors, Air Quality, Atmosphere, and Health, 1:17-18, 2008.
Self-rated health among Mayan women participating in a randomized intervention trial reducing indoor air pollution in Guatemala, BMC International Health and Human Rights, 8-7, 2008.
Symposium on Climate Change and Health in the Annual Review of Public Health, 2008. Read the guest editorial by KR Smith "Mitigation, Adaptation, and Suffering: How Much of Each? and his article with E. Haigler on "Co-benefits of Climate Mitigation and Health Protection in Energy Systems: Scoping Methods". The other four articles are available here.
Wood, the Fuel that Warms You Thrice, Human Health and Forests: A Global Overview of Issues, Practice, and Policy, 2008.
Indoor air pollution from unprocessed solid fuel use and pneumonia risk in children aged under 5 years: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Bulletin of the WHO, 2008.
"Ambient Temperature Predicts Sex Ratios and Male Longevity" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008.
"Climate Change and Global Health: Quantifying a Growing Ethical Crisis" EcoHealth, 2007.
“Human Health”, Ch 8, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 4th Assessment Report, WGII, Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability 2007.
"Indoor Air Pollution and Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Children" 2007 WHO report of a symposium held at the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, Paris, September 2006.
Six articles in Lancet on Energy and Health. All six along with the accompanying editorials and a list of the global energy goals for health recommended in the articles can be downloaded from a zip file here. The three individual articles co-authored by Prof Smith can be found under Energy, Environment, and Climate Change Policy in the Publications section.
Chimney stove intervention to reduce long-term woodsmoke exposure lowers blood pressure among Guatemalan women, Environmental Health Perspectives, 2007.
"Danger Fuels" a radio program about the health and development implications surrounding household energy and domestic smoke in the developing world, features Prof. Smith's research in the Guatemala highlands. Mark Whitaker from Pennise Productions traveled to San Lorenzo, Guatemala with Prof. Smith to produce and present the radio program. It originally aired Wednesday, June 13, 2007 on the BBC World Service/One Planet. LISTEN
The Household Energy and Health Project evaluated the impact of three improved cookstove programs on indoor air pollution and fuel consumption, as reported on in a special issue of Energy for Sustainable Development. Download zip file with articles or go to Section 5 of "Publications" on the link above.
"Household Air Pollution from Coal and Biomass Fuels in China: Measurements, Health Impacts, and Interventions" in Environmental Health Perspectives
"Household CO and PM measured as part of a review of China’s National Improved Stove Program" in recent issue of Indoor Air.
"Risk of Tuberculosis From Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" in February 2007 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine
"Carcinogenicity of household solid fuel combustion and of high-temperature frying" on behalf of the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monograph Working Group, KR Smith, Chair
"Woodsmoke Health Effects: A Review" In the recent issue of Journal of Inhalation Toxicology
"Monitoring and Evaluation of Improved Cookstove Programs for Indoor Air Quality and Stove Performance" Final report submitted to the Breathing Space Program of the Shell Foundation
Presentations from the Guatemala Randomized Intervention Trial ISEE 2006, Paris, France
"Health impacts of household fuelwood use in developing countries" in Unasylva
"Rural Air Pollution: A Major But Often Ignored Development Concern" testimony at the Commission on Sustainable Development Session on Integrated Approaches to Addressing Air Pollution, United Nations, May 2006.
"Energy and Air Pollution, Geo Yearbook 2006" United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, 2006.
"Indoor Women's Work: The Kitchen Kills More than the Sword" - Chapt 10 of Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice, Duke University Press
"How Environmental Health Risks Change With Development: The Epidemiologic and Environmental Risk Transitions Revisited." in Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2005.
"Household Fuels and Ill-Health in Developing Countries: What improvements can be brought by LP Gas?" World LP Gas Association and Intermediate Technology Development Group (Practical Action), Paris, 2005.
"Impact of Improved Stoves on Indoor Air Quality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia." Report for the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), World Bank, 2005.
"Indoor Air Pollution from Household Fuel Combustion in China: A Review" Paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, September 4-9, 2005, Beijing, China
Consensus statement in English and Chinese from the China National Improved Stove Program Review Workshop (2005)
"Case–control study of indoor cooking smoke exposure and cataract in Nepal and India" - International Journal of Epidemiology
Indoor smoke from household solid fuels - Chap. 18 of Comparative Quantification of Health Risks: Global and Regional Burden of Disease due to Selected Major Risk Factors, World Health Organization Read Chapter
Mortality Impacts of Urban Air Pollution - Chap. 17, ibid. Read Chapter
Indoor smoke from solid fuels: Assessing the burden of disease at national and local levels (Handbook for conducting assessments at the local level) View Report
Health Effects of Outdoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries of Asia: A Literature Review View PDF
Combustion particles - Exposure Assessment Methods, special issue of Chemosphere View details
Editorials
"Deadly Household Pollution: A Call to Action " - Indoor Air
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"Wealth, poverty and climate change" - Medical Journal of Australia View PDF
"In Praise of Petroleum?" - Science View details
"Indoor air pollution and acute respiratory infections (and SARS)" - Indian Pediatrics View PDF
