Kirk R. Smith, MPH, PhD

Presentations by K. R. Smith

Health and Household Solid Fuel Use: Recent Developments, US-ASEAN Next Generation Cookstove Workshop, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, November 16-20,2009.
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Energy and Climate Justice: the Sins of Commission, Energy Justice Conference, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, October 23-24, 2009.
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Household Energy, Black Carbon, Climate, and Health, 2009 International Workshop on Black Carbon in Latin America, International Council on Clean Transportation, Instituto National de Ecologia, Centro Mario Molina, Mexico City, Oct 19, 2009.
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Stoves, Health, and Climate: Where are we now? USAID, US Embassy, New Delhi, September 16, 2009.
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Combustion, Climate, Health, and the Environmental Risk Transition
Energy for Development Conference,ETH, Zurich, Sept 10-11, 2009.
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Stoves and Health: Where are we now?
Berkeley Air Monitoring Group Briefing to the Shell Foundation, Berkeley, June 25,2009.
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Now, Soon, or Never: An Introduction to Temporal Dilemmas in Climate Mitigation: BC&OC and Methane,
Haagen-Smit Symposium 2009. California Air Resources Board, June 1-4,Sacramento (slightly revised from presentation version).
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The Prime Directive of Public Health (text),
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Award Convocation Lecture, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, New Brunswick, May 18, 2009.
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Meeting Health Goals While Blunting Climate Change: The Co-benefits Story
AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC,April 30, 2009
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The Unfinished Agenda of Incomplete Combustion for Climate and Health
US Department of State, April 29,2009
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Recent Health Effects Results from Guatemala: Implications for the Stove Community
PCIA Forum, Kampala, March 28, 2009
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(with Jamesine Rogers) Adding Methane to the Natural Debt: a Combined Index of Responsibility
Copenhagen Climate Congress, March 10-12, 2009
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Health and climate Co-benefits: a Survey of the Mitigation Landscape
Copenhagen Climate Congress, March 10-12, 2009
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Stoves, Health, and Climate: Where are we now?
Berkeley Air Monitoring Group Briefing, Shell Foundation, Bangalore, Jan. 30-31, 2009
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Carbon on Steroids: The Untold Story of Methane, Climate, and Health for California
California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, Nov 10, 2008.
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Co-benefits from Air Pollution Control for Health and Climate in China, Beijing Forum
Peking University, Nov 7, 2008.
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The IPCC: Impressions from a Foot Soldier
United Nations Association, International House, University of California, Berkeley, October 24, 2008.
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Combustion Particles: The World's Oldest, Newest, and Largest Environmental Health Hazard
American Association for Aerosol Research 27th Annual Meeting, Orlando FL, October 21, 2008.
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Climate Change and Health
Environmental Mutagen Society 39th Annual Meeting, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico October 19, 2008.
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Co-benefits: Three Short Stories
Workshop on Technologies and Policies to Mitigate Climate Change, CICERO/Oslo and Tsinghua University, Beijing, October 16, 2008.
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"How Can Simple Cookfires Cause so Much Ill-health?"
V Reunion Nacional RED Mexicana de Bioenergia, CIEco-UNAM, Morelia, Michoacan, Sept. 30, 2008.
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"Household Solid Fuel Pollution: Recent Health Effects Results from Guatemala"
Workshop on Emissions of Toxic Air Contaminants from Biomass Burning for Cooking and Brick Production, CIEco-UNAM, Morelia, Michoacan, Sept. 30, 2008.
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"Indoor Air Pollution and Child Health: What do we know, what should we know, and what are some of the systems relationships?"
NICHD/NIEHS Workshop, Bethesda, Sept 26, 2008.
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"Carbon on Steroids: The Untold Story of Methane, Climate, and Health"
Energy and Resources Group Colloquium, UC Berkeley, Sept 17, 2008 (similar presentation given at the World Bank, Delhi, Sept 9, 2008).
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Cows, Coal, and Cooking: the Untold Story of Methane, Climate, and Health
National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, Australian National University, July 23, 2008.
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Challenges for Climate and Health: Time and Morality
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne Australia, July 18, 2008.
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"Mitigating, Adapting, and Suffering: How Much of Each in China?"
10th Shanghai International Forum on Biotechnology, Shanghai, May 30, 2008.
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"Climate Co-benefits and Child Mortality Wedges"
Wellcome Trust Frontiers Meeting, Health Co-benefits of Climate Change Mitigation, London, May 27, 2008
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"Energy and World Development – Challenges for Health and Climate"
Roy F. Weston Distinguished Lecture in Global Sustainability University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 21, 2008
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"Household Cooking: The Neglected Technological Challenge"
Engineers Without Borders - USA 2008 Annual International Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, March 27-30, 2008
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"Ignoring PIC is Ignoring the Poor"
Workshop on Instrumental Methods for Verifying Carbon Offsets in Improved Stove Programs, UC Berkeley, March 22, 2008
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"Household Energy Sector: A Place to Promote Health, Development, and Climate Protection"
Sustainable Development Network Conference, World Bank, February 22, 2008
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"How Environmental Health Risks Change with Development: With Special Attention to China"
Similar presentations given at the 12th International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health (Oct 26-28) and the Beijing Forum 2007 (Nov 2-4, 2007), both at Peking University, Beijing
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"Methane Emission Reductions: Opportunities to Promote Health, Development, and Climate"
Methane to Markets Conference, Beijing, Oct 30-Nov 1, 2007
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"Climate Change and Health - Mitigating, Adapting, and Suffering: The Health Aspects of Each" (similar presentation given in several venues)
--Institute of Medicine Workshop on Climate Change and Health, Environmental Health Sciences and Medicine Climate Research Committee, San Francisco Sep 10-11, 2007
--Environment & Public Health Organization, Kathmandu, Oct 15, 2007
--Environmental Health Sciences Division Seminar Series, UC Berkeley, Oct 22, 2007
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"The UCB Particle Monitor: A Stab at the Holy Grail*"
Presentation at the California Air Resources Board September 4, 2007
*A small, smart, cheap, fast, & reliable PM monitor
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"Worldwide Biomass Combustion: Energy, Air Pollution, and Health"
International Biomass Smoke Health Effects Conference, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, August 21-22, 2007
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"Base Case Co-benefits: Coordinating and Systemizing Evaluation Methods with Examples from China"
Presentation at the IGES Scoping Consultation The Developmental Co-Benefits of Climate Policies in Asia, Bangkok, Aug 3, 2007
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"The Role of Incomplete Combustion in the Global Burden of Disease and What Might be Done" Plenary Presentation at the 10th International Congress on Combustion By-Products and their Health Effects, Ischia, Italy, June 17-20, 2007
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"Rural Energy in China: Opportunities to Promote Health, Development, and Climate"
Shanghai Energy Forum, Fudan University, May 24-27, 2007
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"Protecting Climate and Health in the Chinese Energy Sector" (in collaboration with CEIHD)
Presentation at UNDP/MOST MDG-Carbon Facility, Beijing, May 21, 2007
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"Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution from Solid Fuels and Risk of Childhood Pneumonia: Background and Review of Evidence" (with Nigel Bruce)
Presentation to the UNICEF/WHO Consultative Meeting on the Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP), Gex France, March 5-7, 2007
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"Controlling Wild Horses with Tools Made for Zebras"
Plenary Presentation at the NIEHS Global Environmental Health Conference, San Francisco, Jan 11-13, 2007
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"Four Discussion Pieces on Setting Air Quality Guidelines*"
HEI Annual Conference, San Francisco, April 9, 2006
*Based on discussion pieces prepared for the WHO Air Quality Guidelines Expert Committee Meeting, October 2005, Bonn
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Professor Kirk R. Smith
Email: krksmith@berkeley.edu - Office phone: 510-643-0793 - Fax: 510-642-5815
University of California: Environmental Health Sciences
747 University Hall # 7360 - Berkeley, CA 94720-7360