Professor Kirk Smith's research addresses the relationships among environmental quality, health, resource use, development, and policy in developing countries including:

* health effects of air pollution exposures in developing countries, particularly health effects in women and children from indoor air pollution due to household fuels;

* measurement of health-damaging and climate-related pollution in developing countries, particularly from household fuels;

* development of smart, cheap, portable electronic monitors for exposure assessment in developing countries;

* implications for policy of the potential to achieve co-benefits (health and climate) from pollution control in developing countries;

* development and application of risk assessment techniques to developing-country environmental risks;

* development and application of conceptual frameworks to improve policy for and regulation of pollution, including the Environmental Risk Transition and Exposure Effectiveness (now called Intake Fraction)

His current work includes field studies in India, China, Nepal, Mexico, and Guatemala (see map).