Kirk R. Smith, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Global Environmental Health
PHONE: (510) 643-0793
FAX: (510) 642-5815
LOCATION: 747 University Hall
E-MAIL: krksmith@berkeley.edu
WEB SITE: http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith
Courses
- PH150B: Introduction to Environnmental Health Sciences
- PH200C: MPH Core Breadth Course (with HPM and HSB)
- PH271D: Global Burden of Disease and Comparative Risk Assessment
- PH298-30: Climate Change and Health for Health Scientists
Research Interests
- Environmental and health implications of economic development
- Health-damaging air pollution in developing countries
- Co-benefits (warming and ill-health reductions) of greenhouse gas controls
- Development of robust measures of exposure, risk, and environmental responsibility for policy
- Integration of health, climate, energy, and development issues into international collaborative scientific assessments
- Development and deployment of small, smart, fast, and cheap IT-based environmental monitoring devices
Publications
Smith KR, K. Balakrishnan, Mitigating Climate, Meeting MDGs, and Moderating Chronic Disease: The Health Co-benefits Landscape, Commonwealth Health Ministers' Update 2009, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, pp. 59-65, 2009.
Smith KR, Methane controls before risky geoengineering, please, New Scientist, 27 June, #2714, pp 24-25, 2009.Allen-Piccolo G, Rogers JV, Edwards R, Clark MC, Allen TT, Ruiz-Mercado I, Shields KN, Canuz E, Smith, KR, An Ultrasound Personal Locator for Time-Activity Assessment, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 15 (2): 122-132, 2009.
McCracken, JM, Schwartz J, Bruce N, Mittleman M, Ryan LM, Smith KR, Combining Individual- and group-level exposure information: Child carbon monoxide in the Guatemala woodstove randomized control trial (RESPIRE), Epidemiology 20 (1): 127-136, 2009.
Smith KR, Comparative Environmental Health Assessments: A Brief Introduction and Application in China, Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences 1140: 31-39, 2008.
Dherani M., Pope D, Mascarenhas M, Smith KR, Weber M, Bruce N, Indoor air pollution from unprocessed solid fuel use and pneumonia risk in children aged under 5 years: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Bull WHO 86(5): 390-398 + supplementary material, 2008.
Catalano R, Bruckner T, Smith KR, Ambient Temperature Predicts Sex Ratios and Male Longevity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (6): 2244-2247, 2008
Patz JA, Gibbs HK, Foley JA, Rogers JV, Smith KR, Climate change and global health: Quantifying a growing ethical crisis, EcoHealth 4(4): 397–405, 2007
Confalonieri U. and many others, including KR Smith, “Human Health”, Ch 8, IPCC 4th Assessment Report, WGII, Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability Cambridge University Press, UK, p. 391-431, 2007
Chowdhury Z, Edwards R, Johnson M, Shields KN, Allen T, Canuz E, Smith KR, An inexpensive light-scattering particle monitor: field validation, J Environmental Monitoring, 9, 1099–1106, 2007
Haines A, Smith KR, Anderson D, Epstein P, McMichael A, Roberts I, Wilkinson P, Woodcock J, Woods J, Policies for accelerating access to clean energy, improving health, advancing development, and mitigating climate change, Series on Energy and Health #6, Lancet 370:66-83, 2007
Wilkinson P, Smith KR, Beevers, Tonne C, Oreszcayn T, Energy, energy efficiency, and the built environment, Series on Energy and Health #4, Lancet 370: 42-54, 2007
Wilkinson P, Smith KR, Joffe M, Haines A, A global perspective on energy: Health effects and injustices, Series on Energy and Health #1, Lancet 370: 5-18, 2007
McCracken JM, Smith KR, Mittleman M, Diaz A, Schwartz J, Chimney stove intervention to reduce long-term woodsmoke exposure lowers blood pressure among Guatemalan women, Environ Health Perspect. 115 (7): 996-1001, 2007
Profile Updated: August 21, 2009