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Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Bachelors
of Science, Environmental Engineering
June
1996
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public
Health
Masters
of Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences
January
1998
Harvard School of Public Health
Doctor
of Science, Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk
June
2005
My
current research is focused on the human health effects of exposures to air
pollution, with an emphasis on traffic-related pollutants. My training and
interests include exposure assessment, epidemiology, and biostatistics.
My
primary project is the EPA-funded MESA Air study, which is
designed to investigate the long-term health effects of fine particulate air
pollution. As part of this project, our group is creating individual-level
estimates of exposure to be linked to repeated measures of sub-clinical
atherosclerosis and clinical events. This project is built upon the
NIH/NHLBI Multi-Ethnic Study of
Atherosclerosis (MESA) cohort.
Recently, I have been funded by the EPA along with Tim Larson to examine fine-scale spatial variation of coarse particles and their health effects in three MESA cities. We will explore links between coarse particles of natural and anthropagenic origins on respiratory and cardiovascular endpoints.
I am
also working on Dr. L.J. Sally Liu’s diesel school bus project. This
5-year study characterizes the exposures and pulmonary health of elementary
school children before and after the installation of different diesel
school bus retrofit technologies.
A new
project of mine examines the association between traffic-related air
pollution and noise within communities. The purpose of this research is to
examine the potential for confounding between these two environmental
exposures in epidemiology investigations.
Finally,
I am continuing to collaborate with my former colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health
on my thesis project, the St. Louis Bus Study. This project examines the
cardiovascular health effects of a cohort of senior adults as the result of
exposures aboard a diesel-powered bus.
Adar SD, Kaufman J. Cardiovascular
disease and air pollution: Evaluating and improving epidemiological data
implicating traffic exposure. 2007. Inhal Toxicol. 19 Suppl 1:135-49.
Adar SD,
Adamkiewicz G, Gold DR, Schwartz J, Coull BA, Suh H. Ambient and
micro-environmental particles and exhaled nitric oxide before and after a
group bus trip. Environ Health Perspect. 2007. 115(4):507-512.
Adar SD, Gold DR, Coull BA, Schwartz
J, Stone PH, Suh H. Focused exposures to airborne traffic particles and
heart rate variability in the elderly. Epidemiol. 2007. 18(1):95-103.
Dubowsky SD,
Suh H, Schwartz J, Coull BA, Gold DR. Diabetes, obesity, and
hypertension may enhance associations between air pollution and markers of
systemic inflammation.
Environ Health Perspect.
2006. 114(7):992-8.
Dubowsky, SD, Wallace LA, Buckley TJ. The
contribution of traffic to indoor concentrations of polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol. 1999. 9(4):312-21.
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