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PH 150B Introduction to Environmental Health (Sp) [description]
 
PH 200C Public Health Core Breadth Seminar (F) [description]
 
PH 271D Global Burden of Disease and Comparative Risk Assessment (Sp) [description]
 

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Kirk Smith website: http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/
 
Kirk R. Smith is Professor of Global Environmental Health and Chair of the Graduate Group in Environmental Health Sciences. He is also founder and coordinator of the campus-wide Masters Program in Health, Environment, and Development and Associate Director for International Programs of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. Previously, he was founder and head of the Energy Program of the East-West Center in Honolulu, where he still holds appointment as Senior Fellow in Environment and Health after moving to Berkeley in 1995. His research work focuses on environmental and health issues in developing countries, particularly those related to health-damaging and climate-changing air pollution, and includes ongoing field projects in India, China, Nepal, and Guatemala. He serves on a number of national and international scientific advisory and editorial boards including the Executive Committees for the Global Energy Assessment and the Global Air Quality Guidelines and has published over 250 scientific articles and 7 books. He holds bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from UC Berkeley and, in 1997, was elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors awarded to US scientists by their peers.
 
Professor Smith's research addresses the relationships among environmental quality, health, resource use, climate, 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, Exposure Effectiveness (now called Intake Fraction), and Natural Climate Debt.

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McCracken JM, Smith KR, Mittleman M, Diaz A, Schwartz J, Chimney stove intervention to reduce long-term woodsmoke exposure lowers blood pressure among Guatemalan women, Environ Health Perspect. 115 (7): 996-1001, 2007. [abstract]
 
Wilkinson P, Smith KR, Joffe M, Haines A, A global perspective on energy: Health effects and injustices, Series on Energy and Health #1, Lancet 370(9591):965-78, 2007. [abstract]
 
Patz JA, Gibbs HK, Foley JA, Rogers JV, Smith KR, Climate change and global health: Quantifying a growing ethical crisis, EcoHealth 2007 4(4): 397-405, 2007. [abstract]
 
Haines A, Smith KR, Anderson D, Epstein P, McMichael A, Roberts I, Wilkinson P, Woodcock J, Woods J, Policies for accelerating access to clean energy, improving health, advancing development, and mitigating climate change, Series on Energy and Health #6, Lancet 370(9594):1264-81, 2007. [abstract]
 
Chowdhury Z, Edwards R, Johnson M, Shields KN, Allen T, Canuz E, Smith KR, An inexpensive light-scattering particle monitor: field validation, J Environmental Monitoring, 9(10):1099-106, 2007. [abstract]
 
Confalonieri U. and many others, including KR Smith, "Human Health", Ch 8, IPCC 4th Assessment Report, WGII, Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability Cambridge University Press, UK, p. 391-431, 2007. [abstract]
 
 
Visit Prof. Kirk R. Smith's website for full versions of papers.