Highlighted Publications
Methane controls before risky geoengineering, please, New Scientist, 27 June, #2714, pp 24-25, 2009.
Mitigating Climate, Meeting MDGs, and Moderating Chronic Disease: The Health Co-benefits Landscape, Commonwealth Health Ministers’ Update 2009
Commonwealth Secretariat, London, pp. 59-65.
An
Ultrasound Personal Locator for Time-Activity Assessment Internl J Occup
and Environ Health, 15 (2): 122-132, 2009.
Environmental
Risks of Respiratory Disease: Recommendations and Abstracts, Report of the Sept
2008 Workshop of the Indian Council of Medical Research, NIEHS, and CDC,
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh (March
2009).
Combining
individual- and group-level exposure information: Child carbon monoxide in the
Guatemala woodstove randomized control trial (RESPIRE) Epidemiology 20
(1): 127-136, 2009.
Interview
with Prof. Kirk R. Smith , Boiling Point issue 56: 10-11, 2009. (See also
http://www.hedon.info/BP56:InterviewWithProfessorKirkSmith)
Fuel
use and design analysis of improved woodburning cookstoves in the Guatemalan
Highlands Biomass and Bioenergy 33: 306-315, 2009.
Indoor
air pollution from unprocessed solid fuel use and pneumonia risk in children
aged under 5 years: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Bull WHO
86(5): 390-398 + supplementary material, 2008.
Disease
Burden from Smoking and Passive Smoking in China, in Tobacco Control Policy
Analysis in China: Economics and Health, World Scientific Press,
Shanghai, pp 83-104, 2008.
Comparative
Environmental Health Assessments: A brief introduction and application in China,
Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences 1140: 31-39, 2008.
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.
"Ambient
Temperature Predicts Sex Ratios and Male Longevity" Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, 2008.
Development
and Climate Change Benefits of Clean Energy in India,(part of the Woods Hole
Research Center Project, Linking Climate Policy with Development Strategy in
Brazil, China, and India) Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai,
2007.
"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.
September 2007
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
Pennine 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. June 2007
"Household Air Pollution from
Coal and Biomass Fuels in China: Measurements, Health Impacts, and
Interventions" in Environmental Health Perspectives, 2007
"Household CO and PM measured
as part of a review of China’s National Improved Stove Program" Indoor Air,
2007
"Risk of Tuberculosis From
Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Systematic Review and
Meta-analysis" Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007
"Woodsmoke Health Effects: A
Review" Journal of Inhalation Toxicology, 2007
"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, Lancet-Oncology, 2006
"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, 2006
Presentations from the
Guatemala Randomized Intervention Trial ISEE 2006, Paris,
France
"Health impacts of household
fuelwood use in developing countries" Unasylva,2006
"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, 2006
"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,2005
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 2004
Mortality
Impacts of Urban Air Pollution - Chap. 17, ibid. 2004
Indoor smoke
from solid fuels: Assessing the burden of disease at national and local levels
(Handbook for conducting assessments at the local level) 2004
Health Effects of
Outdoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries of Asia: A Literature Review
Health Effects Institute,
2004
Combustion particles
- Exposure Assessment Methods, special issue of Chemosphere 2002
Editorials
"Deadly Household Pollution: A Call to Action " - Indoor Air,
2006
"Wealth, poverty and climate
change" - Medical Journal of Australia 2003
"Indoor air pollution
and acute respiratory infections (and SARS)" - Indian Pediatrics, 2003
"In Praise of Petroleum?" - Science, 2002 View details
