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

• Assessing the Effects of Cooking Fuels on Anopheles Mosquito Behavior: An Experimental Study in Rural Rwanda
  co-authored by Fogarty's Dr. Joshua Rosenthal
  The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, February 21, 2022
• 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
• LPG stove and fuel intervention among pregnant women reduce fine particle air pollution exposures in three countries: Pilot results from the HAPIN trial
  Environmental Pollution, December 15, 2021
  

• Fidelity an adherence to a liquefied petroleum gas stove and fuel intervention during gestation: the multi-country Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) randomized controlled trial, co-authored by Fogarty's Joshua Rosenthal
  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 29, 2021
  

• US government announces major re-commitment to clean cooking and the Clean Cooking Alliance
  Clean Cooking Alliance news, April 22, 2021
  
• Systems science approaches for global environmental health research: Enhancing intervention design and implementation for household air pollution (HAP) and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs [Open access], co-authored by Fogarty scientists Drs Joshua Rosenthal and Ashlinn Quinn
  Environmental Health Perspectives, October 9, 2020
• Publications on the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial, funded by NIH and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  Environmental Health Perspectives, April 2020:
• Air Pollutant Exposure and Stove Use Assessment Methods for the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial
• Design and Rationale of the HAPIN Study: A Multicountry Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Effect of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Stove and Continuous Fuel Distribution
• Design and Rationale of the Biomarker Center of the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial
• New studies examine air pollution exposure and respiratory health in sub-Saharan Africa featuring research co-authored by Fogarty Scientist Dr Ashlinn Quinn
  NIEHS/NIH Global Environmental Health Newsletter, February 2020
• Interview with NIH Fogarty International Center Director Dr. Roger Glass [PDF]
  American Thoracic Society Research News Quarterly, September 2019

Related Fogarty News and Information

• Profile: Fogarty Fellow Dr Eric Coker sheds new light on Uganda's indoor air pollution
  May / June 2019 Global Health Matters
• Building global capacity for air quality research:
  Q and A with Dr Jonathan Samet
  Mar / Apr 2019 Global Health Matters
• Implementing clean cookstoves is ongoing challenge
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  Jul / Aug 2018 Global Health Matters
• NIH-funded trial to assess benefits of clean cookstoves
  Nov / Dec 2016 Global Health Matters
  • Full news release: NIH contributes to global effort to prevent and manage lung diseases
    NIH-funded trial will measure health benefits of clean cookstoves
    Fogarty/NIH news, October 19, 2016
  • Grantee news: NIH awards $30M to Emory, Johns Hopkins, Colorado State for household air pollution study
    Emory University news, October 18, 2016
  • Grantee news: Emory, Johns Hopkins researchers get $30M to study household air pollution
    Atlanta Business Chronicle, October 26, 2016
  • Grantee news: Hopkins to use $30 million grant to study impact of cooking methods on air pollution
    Baltimore Sun, November 7, 2016
• Building global capacity and training to support household air pollution research
  NIEHS Global Environmental Health newsletter, June 2016
  

NIH News and Resources

• NIH-funded research on the health effects of household energy combustion from NIH RePORT
• Household Air Pollution Investigation Network (HAPIN) with NIH Common Fund support
• Clean Cooking Implementation Science Network
• Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (including NIH) lung disease research funding cycle

Other US Government Resources

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
• EPA - Clean Cookstove Research
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
• CDC - Air Quality
• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID):
• USAID toolkit: Clean and Efficient Technologies and Fuels
• USAID Health Research Program: Clean Cooking to Protect Maternal and Child Health

Other Online Resources

• Clean Cooking Alliance, formerly the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
• Clean Cooking Alliance 2018 Annual Report
• Clean Cooking Catalog - Product and Performance data for the Cookstove Sector
  
• Health Effects Institute (HEI):
  • Report: Household Air Pollution and Noncommunicable Disease
    HEI Household Air Pollution Working Group, July 2018
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME):
  Infographic: Global Burden of Air Pollution, published 2016
• Lancet Commissions:
  Pollution and Health, October 19, 2017
  Household Air Pollution, September 3, 2014
• Household Air Pollution Intervention Tool (HAPIT)
  
• World Health Organization (WHO):
• Household air pollution
• Household air pollution data portal

Updated April 21, 2022