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Pitt Public Health researchers find affordable air filtration improves indoor air quality in Homewood
“Air pollution is heavily associated with adverse respiratory and cardiovascular outcomes,” said Nesta Bortey-Sam, PhD, associate professor of environmental and occupational health. “We wanted to analyze local air pollution trends within Homewood because the community experiences significantly higher rates of these illnesses and asthma-related emergency department visits and hospitalization than many other neighborhoods in the Pittsburgh area.”
Transparency and collaboration were at the forefront of the second annual PA One Health Consortium meeting
“One Health links people, animals, plants and ecosystems,” said Maureen Lichtveld, dean of the School of Public Health, which has served as the PA One Health Consortium's coordinating institution since 2024. “That linkage is central to our mission and to the mission of our consortium and its partners.”
Pittsburgh University study explains why pollution affects some asthma patients more than others
“...stresses on cells can translate into serious physiologic effects, like worsening lung function or asthma exacerbations,” said Sally Wenzel, MD, corresponding author, chair of Pitt Public Health’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and director of Pitt’s Asthma and Environmental Lung Health Institute at UPMC, who co-led the study with Shuangjia Xue, a recent graduate of the department’s PhD program.