List of works - Kalpana Balakrishnan

: Fostering Equity in Access to Environmental Health Research Evidence

scientific article published in October 2023

A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

scientific article published in December 2012

A pilot study of blood lead levels and neurobehavioral function in children living in Chennai, India

journal article published in 2005

A randomized trial of price subsidies for liquefied petroleum cooking gas among low-income households in rural India

scientific article published in June 2023

A risk assessment tool for resumption of research activities during the COVID-19 pandemic for field trials in low resource settings

scientific article published on 12 April 2021

A spatially disaggregated time-series analysis of the short-term effects of particulate matter exposure on mortality in Chennai, India

scholarly article by Kalpana Balakrishnan et al published 28 July 2011 in Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health

Addressing the burden of disease attributable to air pollution in India: the need to integrate across household and ambient air pollution exposures

scientific article

Air pollution from household solid fuel combustion in India: an overview of exposure and health related information to inform health research priorities

scientific article

Ambient Air Pollution Exposure Estimation for the Global Burden of Disease 2013.

scientific article

Assessing Exposure to Household Air Pollution: A Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis of Carbon Monoxide as a Surrogate Measure of Particulate Matter

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Assessing exposures to household air pollution in public health research and program evaluation

scientific article published on 8 November 2014

Association between personal exposure to household air pollution and gestational blood pressure among women using solid cooking fuels in rural Tamil Nadu, India

scientific article published on 15 May 2022

Association of ambient and household air pollution with lung function in young adults in an peri-urban area of South-India: A cross-sectional study

scientific article published in July 2022

Associations between extreme precipitation and gastrointestinal-related hospital admissions in Chennai, India

scientific article

Baseline associations between household air pollution exposure and blood pressure among pregnant women in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) multi-country randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 26 January 2023

Can currently available advanced combustion biomass cook-stoves provide health relevant exposure reductions? Results from initial assessment of select commercial models in India

scientific article published on 8 October 2014

Case studies on heat stress related perceptions in different industrial sectors in southern India

scientific article

Causal inference methods to study nonrandomized, preexisting development interventions.

scientific article

Changes In The Peak Expiratory Flow Rate In Relation To Reductions In Household Air Pollution Concentrations Of Fine Particulate Matter Following Introduction Of Improved Cook Stoves In Southern India

scholarly article published May 2012

Characterization of indoor bioaerosols from a hospital ward in a tropical setting

scientific article

Child Survival and Early Lifetime Exposures to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter in India: A Retrospective Cohort Study

scientific article published in January 2022

Cleaner cooking solutions to achieve health, climate, and economic cobenefits

scientific article

Comparison of Peak Expiratory Flow Rate Variability Between Asthmatics and Healthy Individuals of Chennai City, India

scholarly article by Priscilla Johnson et al published January 2011 in Epidemiology

Control of household air pollution for child survival: estimates for intervention impacts

scientific article

Cooking practices, air quality, and the acceptability of advanced cookstoves in Haryana, India: an exploratory study to inform large-scale interventions

scientific article

Daily average exposures to respirable particulate matter from combustion of biomass fuels in rural households of southern India

scientific article

Design and conduct of facility-based surveillance for severe childhood pneumonia in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Development and Application of Spatially Disaggregated Exposure Series in Time-series Analyses of Air Pollution-related Health Effects in Chennai, India

scholarly article by Santu Ghosh et al published January 2011 in Epidemiology

E-029

article

Ecohealth Research for Mitigating Health Risks of Stone Crushing and Quarrying, India

article

Effect modification by transferrin C2 polymorphism on lead exposure, hemoglobin levels, and IQ.

scientific article published on 31 May 2013

Effects of a LPG stove and fuel intervention on adverse maternal outcomes: A multi-country randomized controlled trial conducted by the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN)

scientific article published in August 2023

Effects of a liquefied petroleum gas stove intervention on gestational blood pressure: intention-to-treat and exposure-response findings from the HAPIN trial

journal article published in 2022

Emergency Room Visits Due to Cardiovascular Illness From a Major Hospital of Chennai, India

scholarly article by Sheela Ravinder et al published January 2011 in Epidemiology

Energy Poverty and Public Health

article

Energy and Health

article

Energy and human health

scientific article

Environmental threats to children's health in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific

scientific article

Establishing integrated rural-urban cohorts to assess air pollution-related health effects in pregnant women, children and adults in Southern India: an overview of objectives, design and methods in the Tamil Nadu Air Pollution and Health Effects (TA

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015

scientific article published on 10 April 2017

Evaluation of health risks associated with exposure to volatile organic compounds from household fuel combustion in southern India

scientific article published in July 2021

Evaluation of mucociliary clearance among women using biomass and clean fuel in a periurban area of Chennai: A preliminary study ⬇️

scientific article

Exposure assessment for respirable particulates associated with household fuel use in rural districts of Andhra Pradesh, India

scientific article published in January 2004

Exposure contrasts associated with a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) intervention at potential field sites for the multi-country household air pollution intervention network (HAPIN) trial in India: results from pilot phase activities in rural Tamil Na

scientific article published on 26 November 2020

Exposure contrasts of pregnant women during the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network randomized controlled trial

journal article published in 2022

Exposure contrasts of pregnant women during the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 5 November 2021

Exposure from cooking with biofuels: pollution monitoring and analysis for rural Tamil Nadu, India

article

Exposure to respirable particulates and silica in and around the stone crushing units in central India

scientific article published on 16 December 2010

Exposure-response relationships for personal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM), carbon monoxide, and black carbon and birthweight: an observational analysis of the multicountry Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial

scientific article published in May 2023

Exposure–response relationships for personal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2·5 ), carbon monoxide, and black carbon and birthweight: Results from the multi-country Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial

scientific article published on 8 August 2022

Facing the Realities of Pragmatic Design Choices in Environmental Health Studies: Experiences from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial

scientific article published on 23 March 2022

Fetal and Early-Life Stove and Fuel Interventions and Respiratory Oscillometry Lung Function Measures in Preschool-Aged Children from Ghana

scientific article published on 15 March 2024

Geographical, Spatial, and Temporal Distributions of Multiple Indoor Air Pollutants in Four Chinese Provinces

article

Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

scientific article

Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

scientific article published in The Lancet

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

scientific article

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Dise

scientific article published in The Lancet

Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition

journal article published in 2015

Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.

scientific article published in October 2016

Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

scientific article

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 ⬇️

scientific article

Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

scientific article

Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.

scientific article

Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.

scientific article

H2S as an indicator of water supply vulnerability and health risk in low-resource settings: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 28 May 2013

Health and household air pollution from solid fuel use: the need for improved exposure assessment

scientific article published on 19 July 2013

Heat Exposure Among Adult Women in Rural Tamil Nadu, India

scientific article published on 10 November 2022

Hemoglobin, lead exposure, and intelligence quotient: effect modification by the DRD2 Taq IA polymorphism

scientific article

High Fidelity: Delivery and use of an LPG stove intervention during pregnancy in the HAPIN trial

scientific article published on 23 August 2021

Household Air Pollution Exposures of Pregnant Women Receiving Advanced Combustion Cookstoves in India: Implications for Intervention

scientific article

Household Air Pollution Interventions to Improve Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement

scientific article published on 15 April 2024

Household fuels, low birth weight, and neonatal death in India: the separate impacts of biomass, kerosene, and coal

scientific article

IQ and Blood Lead Levels: Effect Modification By ALAD Amongst Children in Chennai, India

scholarly article by Deena Thomas et al published January 2011 in Epidemiology

Impact of acute exposure to ambient PM2.5 on non-trauma all-cause mortality in the megacity Delhi

scientific article published in August 2021

Impacts of climate change on public health in India: future research directions

scientific article

Implementation Science to Accelerate Clean Cooking for Public Health

scientific article

In praise of fossil fuel subsidies (for cooking)

scientific article published on 13 March 2024

India Leads the Way: A Health-Centered Strategy for Air Pollution

scientific article published on July 2016

Indoor Air Pollution due to Biomass Fuel Combustion and Acute Respiratory Infection in Children Under 5 in Trichy District of Rural Tamilnadu, India

scholarly article by Padmavathi Ramaswamy et al published January 2011 in Epidemiology

Indoor and Ambient Air Pollution in Chennai, India during COVID-19 Lockdown: An Affordable Sensors Study

scientific article published in 2022

Integrated assessment of exposure to PM2.5 in South India and its relation with cardiovascular risk: Design of the CHAI observational cohort study

scientific article published on 03 June 2017

Integrated urban-rural frameworks for air pollution and health-related research in India: the way forward

scientific article published on January 2011

Inter- versus Intracity Variations in the Performance and Calibration of Low-Cost PM 2.5 Sensors: A Multicity Assessment in India

scientific article published on 21 November 2022

LPG stove and fuel intervention among pregnant women reduce fine particle air pollution exposures in three countries: Pilot results from the HAPIN trial

scientific article published on 15 December 2021

Lead Exposure, Hemoglobin and Intelligence Quotient: Effect Modification by Dopamine Receptor D2 Taq IA Polymorphism Among Children in Chennai, India

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Lead exposure and behavior among young children in Chennai, India

scientific article published on 26 June 2009

Lead exposure and visual-motor abilities in children from Chennai, India

scientific article

Liquefied petroleum gas or biomass for cooking and effects on birth weight

journal article published in 2022

Lung Ultrasound Protocol and Quality Control of Image Interpretation Using an Adjudication Panel in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial

scientific article published in May 2023

Maternal Vitamin B 12 Status and Risk of Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Birth Defects in Tamil Nadu State, India

scientific article published on 9 March 2021

Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.

scientific article published on 21 September 2016

Millions dead: how do we know and what does it mean? Methods used in the comparative risk assessment of household air pollution.

scientific article published on January 2014

Modeling Concentrations of Particulate Matter in Solid Fuel Using Households From India

Monitoring of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons emitted from kerosene fuel burning and assessment of health risks among women in selected rural and urban households of South India

scientific article published on 02 May 2022

Mortality Associated with Ambient Exposure in India: Results from the Million Death Study

scientific article published in September 2022

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Particulate Matter from Stone Crushing Industry: Size Distribution and Health Effects

article

Particulates and anaemia in India

scientific article published on 25 August 2022

Patterns of Household Concentrations of Multiple Indoor Air Pollutants in China

article

Patterns of stove usage after introduction of an advanced cookstove: the long-term application of household sensors

scientific article

Perception and prevalence of work-related health hazards among health care workers in public health facilities in southern India

scientific article

Personal exposure to outdoor particulate matter and greenspace in Delhi, India

scientific article published on 23 August 2021

Pollution and health: a progress update

scientific article published in 2022

Predictors of Blood Lead in Children in Chennai, India (2005–2006)

scholarly article by Ananya Roy et al published 1 October 2009 in International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

Predictors of blood lead in children in Chennai, India (2005-2006).

scientific article published in October 2009

Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in rural women of Tamilnadu: implications for refining disease burden assessments attributable to household biomass combustion

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among South Indian pregnant women

scientific article published in June 2022

Reactivity in rapidly collected hygiene and toilet spot check measurements: a cautionary note for longitudinal studies.

scientific article published on 10 November 2014

Reduction of respirable silica following the introduction of water spray applications in Indian stone crusher mills

journal article published in 2008

Resources and Geographic Access to Care for Severe Pediatric Pneumonia in Four Resource-limited Settings

scientific article published on 01 January 2022

Respiratory risks from household air pollution in low and middle income countries

scientific article

State and national household concentrations of PM2.5 from solid cookfuel use: results from measurements and modeling in India for estimation of the global burden of disease

scientific article published on 11 September 2013

The Impact of Climate Change on Public Health in India: Future Research Directions

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The relationship between greenspace and personal exposure to PM2.5 during walking trips in Delhi, India

scientific article published in July 2022

Ultrasound Core Laboratory for the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial: Standardized Training and Image Management for Field Studies Using Portable Ultrasound in Fetal, Lung, and Vascular Evaluations

scientific article published in 2021

Use of Ventilation-Index in the Development of Exposure Model for Indoor Air Pollution—A Review

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WHO indoor air quality guidelines on household fuel combustion: Strategy implications of new evidence on interventions and exposure–risk functions

article

Work-related heat stress concerns in automotive industries: a case study from Chennai, India

scientific article

List of works by Kalpana Balakrishnan

: Fostering Equity in Access to Environmental Health Research Evidence

A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

A pilot study of blood lead levels and neurobehavioral function in children living in Chennai, India

A randomized trial of price subsidies for liquefied petroleum cooking gas among low-income households in rural India

A risk assessment tool for resumption of research activities during the COVID-19 pandemic for field trials in low resource settings

A spatially disaggregated time-series analysis of the short-term effects of particulate matter exposure on mortality in Chennai, India

Addressing the burden of disease attributable to air pollution in India: the need to integrate across household and ambient air pollution exposures

Air pollution from household solid fuel combustion in India: an overview of exposure and health related information to inform health research priorities

Ambient Air Pollution Exposure Estimation for the Global Burden of Disease 2013.

Assessing Exposure to Household Air Pollution: A Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis of Carbon Monoxide as a Surrogate Measure of Particulate Matter

Assessing exposures to household air pollution in public health research and program evaluation

Association between personal exposure to household air pollution and gestational blood pressure among women using solid cooking fuels in rural Tamil Nadu, India

Association of ambient and household air pollution with lung function in young adults in an peri-urban area of South-India: A cross-sectional study

Associations between extreme precipitation and gastrointestinal-related hospital admissions in Chennai, India

Baseline associations between household air pollution exposure and blood pressure among pregnant women in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) multi-country randomized controlled trial

Can currently available advanced combustion biomass cook-stoves provide health relevant exposure reductions? Results from initial assessment of select commercial models in India

Case studies on heat stress related perceptions in different industrial sectors in southern India

Causal inference methods to study nonrandomized, preexisting development interventions.

Changes In The Peak Expiratory Flow Rate In Relation To Reductions In Household Air Pollution Concentrations Of Fine Particulate Matter Following Introduction Of Improved Cook Stoves In Southern India

Characterization of indoor bioaerosols from a hospital ward in a tropical setting

Child Survival and Early Lifetime Exposures to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter in India: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Cleaner cooking solutions to achieve health, climate, and economic cobenefits

Comparison of Peak Expiratory Flow Rate Variability Between Asthmatics and Healthy Individuals of Chennai City, India

Control of household air pollution for child survival: estimates for intervention impacts

Cooking practices, air quality, and the acceptability of advanced cookstoves in Haryana, India: an exploratory study to inform large-scale interventions

Daily average exposures to respirable particulate matter from combustion of biomass fuels in rural households of southern India

Design and conduct of facility-based surveillance for severe childhood pneumonia in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial

Development and Application of Spatially Disaggregated Exposure Series in Time-series Analyses of Air Pollution-related Health Effects in Chennai, India

E-029

Ecohealth Research for Mitigating Health Risks of Stone Crushing and Quarrying, India

Effect modification by transferrin C2 polymorphism on lead exposure, hemoglobin levels, and IQ.

Effects of a LPG stove and fuel intervention on adverse maternal outcomes: A multi-country randomized controlled trial conducted by the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN)

Effects of a liquefied petroleum gas stove intervention on gestational blood pressure: intention-to-treat and exposure-response findings from the HAPIN trial

Emergency Room Visits Due to Cardiovascular Illness From a Major Hospital of Chennai, India

Energy Poverty and Public Health

Energy and Health

Energy and human health

Environmental threats to children's health in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific

Establishing integrated rural-urban cohorts to assess air pollution-related health effects in pregnant women, children and adults in Southern India: an overview of objectives, design and methods in the Tamil Nadu Air Pollution and Health Effects (TA

Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015

Evaluation of health risks associated with exposure to volatile organic compounds from household fuel combustion in southern India

Evaluation of mucociliary clearance among women using biomass and clean fuel in a periurban area of Chennai: A preliminary study ⬇️

Exposure assessment for respirable particulates associated with household fuel use in rural districts of Andhra Pradesh, India

Exposure contrasts associated with a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) intervention at potential field sites for the multi-country household air pollution intervention network (HAPIN) trial in India: results from pilot phase activities in rural Tamil Na

Exposure contrasts of pregnant women during the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network randomized controlled trial

Exposure contrasts of pregnant women during the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network randomized controlled trial

Exposure from cooking with biofuels: pollution monitoring and analysis for rural Tamil Nadu, India

Exposure to respirable particulates and silica in and around the stone crushing units in central India

Exposure-response relationships for personal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM), carbon monoxide, and black carbon and birthweight: an observational analysis of the multicountry Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial

Exposure–response relationships for personal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2·5 ), carbon monoxide, and black carbon and birthweight: Results from the multi-country Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial

Facing the Realities of Pragmatic Design Choices in Environmental Health Studies: Experiences from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial

Facing the Realities of Pragmatic Design Choices in Environmental Health Studies: Experiences from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial

Fetal and Early-Life Stove and Fuel Interventions and Respiratory Oscillometry Lung Function Measures in Preschool-Aged Children from Ghana

Geographical, Spatial, and Temporal Distributions of Multiple Indoor Air Pollutants in Four Chinese Provinces

Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Dise

Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition

Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.

Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 ⬇️

Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.

Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.

H2S as an indicator of water supply vulnerability and health risk in low-resource settings: a prospective cohort study

Health and household air pollution from solid fuel use: the need for improved exposure assessment

Heat Exposure Among Adult Women in Rural Tamil Nadu, India

Hemoglobin, lead exposure, and intelligence quotient: effect modification by the DRD2 Taq IA polymorphism

High Fidelity: Delivery and use of an LPG stove intervention during pregnancy in the HAPIN trial

Household Air Pollution Exposures of Pregnant Women Receiving Advanced Combustion Cookstoves in India: Implications for Intervention

Household Air Pollution Interventions to Improve Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement

Household fuels, low birth weight, and neonatal death in India: the separate impacts of biomass, kerosene, and coal

IQ and Blood Lead Levels: Effect Modification By ALAD Amongst Children in Chennai, India

Impact of acute exposure to ambient PM2.5 on non-trauma all-cause mortality in the megacity Delhi

Impacts of climate change on public health in India: future research directions

Implementation Science to Accelerate Clean Cooking for Public Health

In praise of fossil fuel subsidies (for cooking)