Household air pollution news, resources and funding for global health researchers
Over 3 billion people in the world rely on open fires and rudimentary stoves for cooking food and heating their homes. The combustion of solid fuels like wood, dung, agricultural waste and coal pollutes the household environment with harmful particulate matter and other toxins that are estimated to result in over 2.6 million premature deaths a year (GBD 2016). More than a million additional deaths are attributable to the contribution of emissions from household air pollution (HAP) to ambient (outdoor) air pollution.
NIH has invested in research and training to reduce the impact of HAP, and to improve the health of those who rely on cookstoves. NIH hosts the
Clean Cooking Implementation Science Network and is a co-sponsor, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, of the
Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial. Numerous NIH Institutes, Centers and Office at the NIH fund research on the health effects of biomass fuels and on interventions to reduce the health burden of cooking and heating with rudimentary stoves and fuels.
Recent News
- Voices From the Field: Cognitive Assessments of Children Provided Insight into Andean Culture
Global Environmental Health, August 2023
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International Research Continues on Transition to Cleaner Cooking
Global Environmental Health, December 2022 -
Liquefied Petroleum Gas or Biomass for Cooking and Effects on Birth Weight authored by HAPIN Trial investigators, supported by Fogarty and other NIH Institutes and Centers
New England Journal of Medicine, October 10, 2022 -
Exposure Contrasts of Pregnant Women during the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Randomized Controlled Trial, authored by HAPIN Trial investigators, supported by Fogarty and other NIH Institutes and Centers
Environmental Health Perspectives, September 16, 2022 -
Cross-sectional analysis of the association between personal exposure to household air pollution and blood pressure in adult women: evidence from the multi-country household air pollution intervention network (HAPIN) trial, authored by HAPIN Trial investigators, supported by Fogarty and other NIH Institutes and Centers
Environmental Research, August 24, 2022
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For Insight Into Cookstove Use, Researchers Turn to Behavioral Science
Global Environmental Health from the National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), February 2022 -
Association between personal exposure to household air pollution and gestational blood pressure among women using solid cooking fuels in rural Tamil Nadu, India, authored by HAPIN trial investigators
Environmental Research, January 2022
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Updated August 29, 2023