Environmental Health Engineering

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Research Focus


Research Focus

  • Ambient and Household Air Pollution 
  • Heavy Metal Toxicity & Its Impacts in India
  • Lead and Neuro-Behavioral Impacts in Children
  • Climate change, heat stress and worker productivity
  • Mercury (Hg) and Human Bio-Monitoring (HBM)
  • Global and National Technical Assessments on Air Quality and Health
  • Household Ventilation 
  • Occupational Health Risk Management Toolkits in India

Research Projects

  • Assessing the role of LPG coverage at scale to achieve household air pollution and ambient air pollution exposure reductions using hyper-local, low-cost PM2.5 sensor networks: implications for the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana program in India. – Implementation Science Network, National Institutes of Health
  • Protocol of Heat stress and heat strain assessment in Uddanam Community George institute of global Health – Dept of Science and Technology (DST)
  • Nexus of Covid-19 and extreme heat for poor urban populations in the Global South (Covid-19/Heat Nexus) – Scotish Funding Council’s- Global Challenges Research Fund Covid-19 Urgency grants
  • Silica Nephropathy and Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology – National Institute of Health
  • Protection Resilience Efficiency and Prevention for workers in industrial agriculture in a changing climate  (PREP) -Belmont Forum (Forte, Sweden NOAA, USA, NSF, USA) UKRI, United Kingdom)
  • Prenatal Exposure to Air Toxics and Birth outcome assessment in rural and Urban Tamil Nadu – Indian Council of Medical Research
  • Encouraging use of liquefied petroleum gas, a clean cooking fuel, among rural households in central Tamil Nadu – University of Pennsylvania IRF & UPIASI
  • Geographical Information Systems for Epidemiological research. Case studies with focus on Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown etiology – Swedish Research Link
  • Atmospheric Pollution & Human Health in an Indian Megacity: Delhi Air Pollution Health and Effects (DAPHNE) Study – Department of Biotechnology & National Environmental Research Council(UK)
  • Heat Stress Index For India: Projections for near future HIIPROF – DST Govt. of India
  • Occupational heat stress implications on renal health in the context of Climate Change – DST Govt. of India
  • Household Air Pollution and Health: a multi-country LPG intervention trial – National Institute of Health, USA

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