-2019-
Latin America: The First True Smokeless Region? • 2o Congreso Nacional del Gas LP • 2019 • GASNOVA, Bogotá, Colombia • August 21, 2019 [PDF]
Health impacts of Ulaanbaatar air pollution, policy recommendations, and projections • National Conference on Air Pollution and Health - 2019 • Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia • March 28, 2019 [PDF]
-2018-
Air Pollution and Health: Developments in China, India, and Mongolia • AGU-CAS Joint Meeting, Atmospheric PM2.5 in China: Change, Impact, Mitigation, and Global Perspective • Xi’an, China • Oct 20, 2018 [PDF]
LPG in Asia: How was it done? • “Towards the elimination of the use of solid fuels and kerosene in the Americas” • PAHO Workshop • Mexico City, Mexico • September 12, 2019 [PDF]
The Prospects for Exposure Management of Air Pollution: India, China, Mongolia, and California • WHO SEARO Meeting on Air Pollution • Bangkok, Thailand • June 18, 2018 [PDF]
Household air pollution and health: going up and going down • Prayas/CCAPC Meeting • New Delhi, India • June 20, 2018 [PDF]
India's LPG Programs: What Can We Learn? • ICMR/CDC/CCAPC/Vital Strategies Meeting • New Delhi, India • June 21, 2018 [PDF]
The Prospects for Exposure Management of Air Pollution: India, Mongolia, and (maybe) California? • 2018 Joint International Conference on ABaCAS and CMAS-Asia Pacific • Beijing, China • May 22, 2018 [PDF]
LPG and Air Pollution in India: What is new? • LPG: Catalyst of Social Change – II Ranchi, Feb 26, 2018 [PDF]
Heat Pump Pilot Study in Ulaanbaatar • Workshop on Accelerating Clean Heating and Cooking Access, Tsinghua/Asia Development Bank, Beijing, China • January 30, 2018 [PDF]
Health effects of household and ambient air pollution: How was it determined for Ulaanbaatar under alternative policy pathways? • Workshop on Accelerating Clean Heating and Cooking Access, Tsinghua/Asia Development Bank, Beijing, China • January 29, 2018 [PDF]
-2017-
Household Energy and Air pollution in India: What is being done? • International Conference on Impact of Environment on Women's Health, Amity University, Lucknow, India • December 1, 2017 [PDF]
Future PM2.5 exposures & health impacts in Ulaanbaatar under alternative policy pathways and Demonstration of double compression household heat pumps in winter 2017-18 • UNDP, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia • November 17, 2017 [PDF]
Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health: A Brief Description of Methods • Briefing for India Habitat Centre • New Delhi • November 14, 2017 [PDF]
Air Pollution and Health: The India case • First World NCD Congress • PGIMER • Chandigarh • November 5, 2017 [PDF]
Air Pollution and Health, An Integrated Agenda • 8th World Air Forum • Seoul, Korea • October 20, 2017 [PDF]
LPG in India • UPES 16th Oil and Gas Round Table • Mumbai, India • September 15, 2017 [PDF]
Dissemination at Er He Zhuang Village • China • August 11, 2017 [PDF | Photos]
Ujjwala Program • Seminar at JL Nehru Library • New Delhi, India • August 11, 2017 [PDF]
LPG and Health in India: The Ujjwala-Mamta Proposal • WLPGA 2017 Asia LPG Summit • New Delhi, India • February 7, 2017 [PDF]
-2016-
Environmental Health in India: What are the Issues and what is India doing about it? • Professor TK Partha Sarathy Endowment Oration • Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India • October 6, 2016 [PDF]
Using Exposure Management to Control India's Health Burden From Air Pollution • Our Right to Clean Air • Centre for Science and The Environment Conclave • April 19, 2016 [PDF]
Making the Clean Available: Beyond Climate and Out of the Box • Energy Resources Group Colloquium • University of California, Berkeley, California • April 6, 2016 [PDF]
-2015-
Biomass Cookfuels and Health in Nigeria: What is the problem and where is it going? • Nigeria LPGA, Fifth Annual Conference • Lagos, Nigeria • December 2, 2015 [PDF]
Household Air Pollution in India: Where are we going? • India Clean Cooking Forum, GIZ/MNRE • Delhi • October 6, 2015 [PDF]
LPG and the Health of the World's Poor: A Global Opportunity • World LPG Forum • Singapore • September 29, 2015 [PDF]
Climate Change, Household Energy, and Health: Co-Benefits and Cross-Benefits • Understanding Climate & Health Associations in India: A Training Workshop, TARU and NIEHS • Delhi • September 23, 2015 [PDF]
Household Air Pollution: Impacts on Child and Lung Health • Joint Meeting of the Medical Societies of Pediatrics, Pulmonology, and Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology • Asuncion, Paraguay • August 26, 2015 [PDF]
Health Impacts of Household Air Pollution in Paraguay: What is to be done? • PAHO, WHO, Paraguay Ministry of Public Health • Workshop on Household air Pollution • Asuncion, Paraguay • August 25, 2015 [PDF]
Cocinas Limpias en la Region de Paraguay: ¿Por que son Importantes? • PAHO, WHO, Paraguay Ministry of Public Health • Workshop on Household air Pollution • Asuncion, Paraguay • August 25, 2015 [PDF]
Making the Clean Available - Old and new paradigms for addressing the largest environmental health risk in the world: smoke from cookfuels • World Bank Presentation • August 5, 2015 [PDF]
The Largest Environmental Health Hazard in the World • Haagen-Smit Award Presentation, California Air Resources Board • Sacramento, CA • June 24, 2015 [PDF]
Health Impacts of Household Air Pollution the PAHO Region - ¿What is to be done? • PAHO Meeting on the WHO Indoor Air Quality Guidelines • Tegucigalpa, Honduras • June 17, 2015 [PDF]
Cocinas Limpias en la Región de la OPS - ¿Porqué son Importantes? • PAHO Meeting on the WHO Indoor Air Quality Guidelines • Tegucigalpa, Honduras • June 16, 2015 [PDF]
-2014-
LPG: Why Do We Think it Might be able to Save Millions of Lives?
Promoting LPG as an alternative cooking fuel in Sub-Sahara Africa: Stakeholder Meeting • 2 December 2014 • KfW Frankfurt
[PDF]
Climate Change and Health: The Three Eras We Face • Sustaining Health: Linking Environment, Nutrition and Health • UN Climate Week Panel • Wellcome Trust/Columbia University • New York City • September 22, 2014 [PDF]
Household Air Pollution and Health: An Introduction for HAPIT
HAPIT: Household Air Pollution Intervention Tool • Kirk R. Smith and Ajay Pillarisetti • Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Webinar • August 14, 2014 [PDF]
Indoor Air Pollution: Updates from the Rural Developing World • Indoor Air 2014 • Hong Kong • July 11, 2014 [PDF]
Household fuels and the indoor air pollution paradigm • International Symposium on Environment and Health • Peking University • Beijing, China • July 4, 2014 [PDF]
Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Health • Health, Climate Change, and Air Pollution Side-event • World Health Assembly • Geneva, May 19, 2014 [PDF]
Health and Solid Fuel Use: Five New Paradigms Similar lectures given at Clean Cooking Conference • DFID/WHO/GACC • London May 1, 2014, and Sustainable Energy for All Initiative/UNIDO • Vienna • May 7, 2014 [PDF]
Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Health: Co-Benefits and Cross-Benefits Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy • Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy • Central European University • Budapest, Hungary • May 5, 2014 [PDF] [News Coverage of Dr. Smith's Lecture]
Household Air Pollution and Health in Laos Kirk R. Smith and Ajay Pillarisetti • A Joint Energy and Health Sector Workshop on Innovative Health Impacts Result Based Financing to Promote Clean Cookstoves • World Bank, Washington DC • Feb 10, 2014 [PDF]
Making the Clean Available: Breaking out of India's Chulha Trap Energy Access Department, World Bank • January 30, 2014 [PDF]
-2013-
Preliminary Results from Chapter 11 --Health-- of IPCC AR5 Lectures given at the Workshop on Climate Change and its Impact on Human Health, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; Institute of Crisis Management Studies, Kathmandu; and the International Conference on Climate Change, Water Resources and Disasters in Mountainous Regions, Kathmandu – Nov, 2013. [PDF]
One million premature deaths from cooking fuels in India: How estimated and what does it mean? (the story of three journal articles) First VPCI Honour Lecture Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi Sept 26, 2013 [PDF]
Methane Natural Debt and Impacts on India’s Workers Of Extreme Climate Change Annual South Asian Media Briefing on Climate Change Centre for Science and Environment New Delhi, September 19, 2013 [PDF]
Work, Heat, and Climate Change: Outdoors and Indoors Tord Kjellstrom, Umea University; Vidhya Venugopal, Sri Ramachandra University; and Kirk R. Smith, UC Berkeley ISEE/ISES/ISIAQ Conference, Basel, Aug 2013 [PDF]
IERs and the WHO IAQGs: How Clean is Clean Enough? Symposium on the WHO Indoor Air Quality Guidelines • ISEE/ISES/ISIAQ Conference, Basel, Aug 2013 [PDF]
Energy and Health Global Energy Assessment West Coast Launch • Global Energy Assessment Conference 2013 • Stanford University • May 21 2013 [PDF]
Clean Cooking in Central America: Why do we Care? “Challenges and Opportunities to Universal Access to Clean Biomass Cookstoves in Central American” Regional Workshop Organized by SICA’s General Secretariat and the World Bank in Coordination with the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Nicaragua and the Secretariat of Natural Resources and Environment of Honduras • Managua, Nicaragua • May 24, 2013 [PDF]
Global and Chinese Burdens of Disease from PM2.5 Exposures Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences • Beijing, China • March 28, 2013 [PDF]
Clean Cooking Forum 2013: Opening Keynote Address Clean Cookstoves Forum • Phnom Penh • March 19, 2013 Click here to see a video of the address. Click here to see other videos from the Clean Cooking Forum.
Clean Cooking Fuels: What’s the Big Deal? Clean Cookstoves Forum • Phnom Penh • March 19, 2013 [PDF]
Providing Clean Cooking in Developing Countries: What’s the Big Deal? Energy Days Forum • World Bank, Washington DC • February 28, 2013 [PDF]
Global and South Asian Burdens of Disease from Household Air Pollution: the GBD 2010 Study Centre for Rural Technology • Kathmandu, Nepal • January 15, 2013 [PDF]
Global and Indian Burdens of Disease from Household Air Pollution: the GBD 2010 Study Indian Institute of Technology • January 8, 2013 [PDF]
-2012-
Comparative Risk Assessment of Household Air Pollution in the GBD 2010 Study Household Air Pollution in the Global Burden of Disease Study • Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves • National Press Club, Washington DC • December 17, 2012 [PDF]
Global Warming, Public Health, and Human Futures: Thoughts on Scheffler’s "Afterlife" Thesis The Ohio State University Center for Historical Research • Lecture Series in Health, Disease, and Environment in World History November 16, 2012 [PDF]
Climate Change and Scheffler’s “Afterlife” Festschrift for Tony McMichael • Australian National University • Nov 2, 2012 [PDF]
Global Burden of Disease due to Household Air Pollution from Cooking Fuel NIH/Fogarty Training Workshop on Household Air Pollution • National Institutes of Health • October 10, 2012[PDF]
The Surprisingly Large Health Benefits of Clean Household Fuels Keynote Address, “Cooking for Life Initiative” • World LP Gas Forum • September 2012 • Bali, Indonesia[PDF]
Global Burden due to Household Air Pollution from Cooking Fuel International Society for Environmental Epidemiology • Columbia, SC • August 29, 2012[PDF]
Household Air Pollution: An Update from Latin America Pan American Health Organization • Washington DC • July 2, 2012[PDF]
Smoke, health, and climate: the unfinished global agenda of poor combustion The School of Public Health, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta and Research Center for Climate Change University of Indonesia, Jakarta • May 29 & 31, 2012[PDF]
Household Air Pollution from Humanity's Oldest Occupation: A Brief History Tyler Laureate Lecture, University of Southern California • April 26, 2012[PDF]
The Unfinished Health and Research Agendas of Incomplete Combustion Particles Environmental Mutagens in Human Populations, International Conference, Doha, Qatar • March 29, 2012[PDF]
Smoke, health, and climate: the unfinished global agenda of poor combustion The Fourteenth Lecture of Qatar Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series, Doha, Qatar • March 26, 2012[PDF]
HEDON London Research Interest Group Meeting London, United Kingdom • March 23, 2012[PDF]
Smoke, health, and climate: updates with relation to Nepal Centre for Rural Technology, Kathmandu, Nepal • January 13, 2012[PDF]
Smoke, health, and climate: the unfinished global agenda of poor combustion David Bates Memorial Lecture • Annual Symposium on Environmental, Occupational, and Population Health • Semiahmoo, Washington • Jan 6, 2012[PDF]
-2011-
The Danger of Incomplete Combustion for Environment, Health, and Climate: The Case of China Presentation to visiting Chinese Delegation of Stove Manufacturers, University of California, Berkeley, Nov 23, 2011[PDF]
Climate Change Decision Making: The Co-benefits Story International Colloquium on The Grand Scientific Challenges of Combating Climate Change, Unversidad Autotnoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, November 9, 2011[PDF]
Biomass cooking: intervention programs and health impacts Workshop on biomass for cooking in Mexican households: towards an integrated program of stove implementation National Institute of Ecology (INE), Mexico City, Oct 28, 2011[PDF]
Reflections on the Future of Exposure Science. International Society of Exposure Science Annual Meeting, Baltimore, October 2011[PDF]
How Many Days of Measurement Adequately Predicts Long-Term Indoor Air Concentration Means? Presented by Line Alnes. International Society of Exposure Science Annual Meeting, Baltimore, October 2011[PDF]
Fukushima Symposium: Radiation Exposure in Context. International Society of Exposure Science Annual Meeting, Baltimore, October 2011[PDF]
Combustion particles from household fuels -- new evidence of heath effects. National Cancer Institute, October 25, 2011[PDF]
Smoke, health, and climate: the unfinished global agenda of incomplete combustion Global Health Sciences UCSF, Oct 13, 2011[PDF]
Household Air Pollution and Health: Results from the New Comparative Risk Assessment Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science Beijing, Oct 10, 2011 [PDF]
Household air pollution health impacts: current evidence across different sources Ministry of Health and Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy - Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - Oct 6, 2011 [PDF]
Climate Change, Energy, and Health: Findings from the 2011 Global Energy Assessment Presented by Zoe Chafe. Climate Change, Environment and Population Symposium. UC Berkeley, 6 October 2011 [PDF]
Cookfires, Climate, and Health: The Unfinished Agenda of Incomplete Combustion TERI University, Delhi, Sept 21, 2011 [PDF]
Controlling Household SLCF Emissions: An Overview Technical Workshop on Science and Policy of Short-lived Climate Forcers, September 9-10, 2011, Mexico City [PDF]
Household Air Pollution: New Evidence of Health Impacts from Guatemala and Elsewhere Centro de Estudios en Salud Universidad del Valle – Guatemala City, Guatemala – August 2, 2011 [PDF]
Uso de la leña: Implicancias en salud y clima Centro de Estudios Públicos – Santiago, Chile – June 21, 2011 [PDF]
Household Air Pollution and Chronic Disease in Developing Countries Global Health Council, 38th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, June 14, 2011 [PDF]
Household Air Pollution from Humanity's Oldest Occupation: A Brief History Indoor Air, Austin, Texas June 7, 2011 [PDF]
The Danger of Incomplete Combustion for Environment, Health, and Climate: The Impacts of Humanity's Occupation Global Vision Lecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing (shorter versions given at Beijing University of Chemical Technology and the Shenzhen Institute of Building Research) May 19, 2011 [PDF]
Household Air Pollution: the Scope of the Problem The Health Impacts of Humanity's Oldest Occupation NIH Workshop on Indoor Air Pollution, Washington DC May 10, 2011 [PDF]
COOKING AND CLIMATE 18th Annual Sewell Distinguished Lecture in Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University, April 20, 2011 [PDF]
COOKFIRES, CLIMATE, AND HEALTH: THE UNFINISHED AGENDA OF INCOMPLETE COMBUSTION Golden Jubilee Thematic Lecture, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, March 28, 2011 [PDF]
Household Air Pollution and Chronic Disease Among the Bottom Billion Harvard University, March 2011 [PDF]
The Hearth Kills More than the Sword Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, March 2011 [PDF]
Combustion Particles and Global Health: Cooking and Climate University of Southern California and Stanford University, February 2011 [PDF]
- 2010 -
Climate Justice: the Sins of Commission Joint Conference of the ISES-ISEE, September 1, 2010, Seoul, Korea [PDF]
Health and Climate Co-benefits: the Case of Household Wood Combustion Region 9 Headquarters USEPA, San Francisco August 23, 2010 [PDF]
Early EWC Work's Influence on Climate Change Science Today, East-West Center 50th Anniversary Conference, Honolulu, July 3, 2010 [PDF]
Household Cooking, Health, and Climate: Indoors Going Out Committee on the Effect of Climate Change on Indoor Air Quality and Public Health, Institute of Medicine July 14, 2010 [PDF]
Global Health and Climate Change: The Co-benefits Story, Healthy Climate, Planet and People Australian Academy of Sciences, Canberra, June 23, 2010 [PDF]
Methane & Other Sneaky, Fast, & Nasty Actors in the Climate Change Closet National Centre of Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, June 21, 2010. [PDF]
The Kitchen Kills More than the Sword: Health and Climate Impacts of Household Fuel University of Charleston, May 6, 2010. [PDF]
Health and climate implications of short-lived greenhouse pollutants: black carbon, sulphate, and ozone HEI Annual Conference, Alexandria VA, April 27, 2010. [PDF]
Scaling-Up Clean Cooking Solutions Consultation UN and Shell Foundations, Washington, D.C., Mar 29, 2010. [PDF]
"How to Trick the Belgians into Paying for Improved Stoves" USEPA Workshop on Short-lived Climate Forcers, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 3, 2010. [PDF]
Poor household combustion and poor people: a vicious connection and major opportunity USEPA, Washington DC, March 2, 2010. [PDF]
Unfinished Agenda of Incomplete Combustion for Climate, Environment, and Health. Global Health Institute, Duke University, Feb 17, 2010. [PDF]
Health and climate implications of short-lived greenhouse pollutants: black carbon, sulphate, and ozone 3rd International Workshop on Mega-city and Regional Air Quality, Peking University, Feb 1, 2010. [PDF]
Mitigating Climate, Meeting MDGs, and Moderating Chronic Diseases: The Health Co-benefits Landscape Sri Ramachandra University, Inaugural Lecture: Jan 19, 2010. [PDF]
- 2009 -
Health and Household Solid Fuel Use: Recent Developments US-ASEAN Next Generation Cookstove Workshop, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, November 16-20,2009. [PDF]
Energy and Climate Justice: the Sins of Commission Energy Justice Conference, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, October 23-24, 2009. [PDF]
Household Energy, Black Carbon, Climate, and Health 2009 International Workshop on Black Carbon in Latin America, International Council on Clean Transportation, Instituto National de Ecologia, Centro Mario Molina, Mexico City, Oct 19, 2009. [PDF]
Stoves, Health, and Climate: Where are we now? USAID, US Embassy, New Delhi, September 16, 2009. [PDF]
Combustion, Climate, Health, and the Environmental Risk Transition Energy for Development Conference ETH, Zurich, Sept 10-11, 2009. [PDF]
Stoves and Health: Where are we now? Berkeley Air Monitoring Group Briefing to the Shell Foundation, Berkeley, June 25,2009. [PDF]
Now, Soon, or Never: An Introduction to Temporal Dilemmas in Climate Mitigation:BC&OC and Methane Haagen-Smit Symposium 2009. California Air Resources Board, June 1-4,Sacramento (slightly revised from presentation version). [PDF]
The Prime Directive of Public Health (text), Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Award Convocation Lecture, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, New Brunswick, May 18, 2009. [PDF]
Meeting Health Goals While Blunting Climate Change: The Co-benefits Story AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC,April 30, 2009 [PDF]
The Unfinished Agenda of Incomplete Combustion for Climate and Health US Department of State, April 29,2009 [PDF]
Recent Health Effects Results from Guatemala: Implications for the Stove Community PCIA Forum, Kampala, March 28, 2009 [PDF]
Adding Methane to the Natural Debt: a Combined Index of Responsibility (with Jamesine Rogers) Copenhagen Climate Congress, March 10-12, 2009 [PDF]
Health and climate Co-benefits: a Survey of the Mitigation Landscape Copenhagen Climate Congress, March 10-12, 2009 [PDF]
Stoves, Health, and Climate: Where are we now? Berkeley Air Monitoring Group Briefing, Shell Foundation, Bangalore, Jan. 30-31, 2009 [PDF]
- 2008 -
Carbon on Steroids: The Untold Story of Methane, Climate, and Health for California California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, Nov 10, 2008, [PDF]
Co-benefits from Air Pollution Control for Health and Climate in China Beijing Forum Peking University, Nov 7, 2008 [PDF]
The IPCC: Impressions from a Foot Soldier United Nations Association, International House, University of California, Berkeley, October 24, 2008 [PDF]
Combustion Particles: The World's Oldest, Newest, and Largest Environmental Health Hazard American Association for Aerosol Research 27th Annual Meeting, Orlando FL, October 21, 2008 [PDF]
Climate Change and Health Environmental Mutagen Society 39th Annual Meeting, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico October 19, 2008 [PDF]
Co-benefits: Three Short Stories Workshop on Technologies and Policies to Mitigate Climate Change, CICERO/Oslo and Tsinghua University, Beijing, October 16, 2008 [PDF]
"How Can Simple Cookfires Cause so Much Ill-health?" V Reunion Nacional RED Mexicana de Bioenergia, CIEco-UNAM, Morelia, Michoacan, Sept. 30, 2008 [PDF]
"Household Solid Fuel Pollution: Recent Health Effects Results from Guatemala" Workshop on Emissions of Toxic Air Contaminants from Biomass Burning for Cooking and Brick Production, CIEco-UNAM, Morelia, Michoacan, Sept. 30, 2008 [PDF]
"Indoor Air Pollution and Child Health: What do we know, what should we know, and what are some of the systems relationships?" NICHD/NIEHS Workshop, Bethesda, Sept 26, 2008 [PDF]
"Carbon on Steroids: The Untold Story of Methane, Climate, and Health" Energy and Resources Group Colloquium, UC Berkeley, Sept 17, 2008 (similar presentation given at the World Bank, Delhi, Sept 9, 2008) [PDF]
Cows, Coal, and Cooking: the Untold Story of Methane, Climate, and Health National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, Australian National University, July 23, 2008 [PDF]
Challenges for Climate and Health: Time and Morality Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne Australia, July 18, 2008 [PDF]
"Mitigating, Adapting, and Suffering: How Much of Each in China?" 10th Shanghai International Forum on Biotechnology, Shanghai, May 30, 2008. [PDF]
"Climate Co-benefits and Child Mortality Wedges" Wellcome Trust Frontiers Meeting, Health Co-benefits of Climate Change Mitigation, London, May 27, 2008 [PDF]
"Energy and World Development - Challenges for Health and Climate" Roy F. Weston Distinguished Lecture in Global Sustainability University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 21, 2008 [PDF]
"Household Cooking: The Neglected Technological Challenge" Engineers Without Borders - USA 2008 Annual International Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, March 27-30, 2008 [PDF]
"Ignoring PIC is Ignoring the Poor" Workshop on Instrumental Methods for Verifying Carbon Offsets in Improved Stove Programs, UC Berkeley, March 22, 2008 [PDF]
"Household Energy Sector: A Place to Promote Health, Development, and Climate Protection" Sustainable Development Network Conference, World Bank, February 22, 2008 [PDF]
- 2007-
"How Environmental Health Risks Change with Development: With Special Attention to China" Similar presentations given at the 12th International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health (Oct 26-28) and the Beijing Forum 2007 (Nov 2-4, 2007), both at Peking University, Beijing [PDF]
"Methane Emission Reductions: Opportunities to Promote Health, Development, and Climate" Methane to Markets Conference, Beijing, Oct 30-Nov 1, 2007 [PDF]
"Climate Change and Health - Mitigating, Adapting, and Suffering: The Health Aspects of Each" (similar presentation given in several venues) --Institute of Medicine Workshop on Climate Change and Health, Environmental Health Sciences and Medicine Climate Research Committee, San Francisco Sep 10-11, 2007 --Environment & Public Health Organization, Kathmandu, Oct 15, 2007 --Environmental Health Sciences Division Seminar Series, UC Berkeley, Oct 22, 2007 [PDF]
"The UCB Particle Monitor: A Stab at the Holy Grail*" Presentation at the California Air Resources Board September 4, 2007 *A small, smart, cheap, fast, & reliable PM monitor [Powerpoint] | [PDF]
"Worldwide Biomass Combustion: Energy, Air Pollution, and Health" International Biomass Smoke Health Effects Conference, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, August 21-22, 2007 [Powerpoint] | [PDF]
"Base Case Co-benefits: Coordinating and Systemizing Evaluation Methods with Examples from China" Presentation at the IGES Scoping Consultation The Developmental Co-Benefits of Climate Policies in Asia, Bangkok, Aug 3, 2007 [Powerpoint] | [PDF]
"The Role of Incomplete Combustion in the Global Burden of Disease and What Might be Done" Plenary Presentation at the 10th International Congress on Combustion By-Products and their Health Effects, Ischia, Italy, June 17-20, 2007 [Powerpoint] | [PDF]
"Rural Energy in China: Opportunities to Promote Health, Development, and Climate" Shanghai Energy Forum, Fudan University, May 24-27, 2007 [Powerpoint] | [PDF]
"Protecting Climate and Health in the Chinese Energy Sector" (in collaboration with CEIHD) Presentation at UNDP/MOST MDG-Carbon Facility, Beijing, May 21, 2007 [Powerpoint] | [PDF]
"Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution from Solid Fuels and Risk of Childhood Pneumonia: Background and Review of Evidence" (with Nigel Bruce) Presentation to the UNICEF/WHO Consultative Meeting on the Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP), Gex France, March 5-7, 2007 [Powerpoint] | [PDF]
"Controlling Wild Horses with Tools Made for Zebras" Plenary Presentation at the NIEHS Global Environmental Health Conference, San Francisco, Jan 11-13, 2007 [Powerpoint] | [PDF]
- 2006 and earlier -
"Four Discussion Pieces on Setting Air Quality Guidelines*" HEI Annual Conference, San Francisco, April 9, 2006 *Based on discussion pieces prepared for the WHO Air Quality Guidelines Expert Committee Meeting, October 2005, Bonn [PDF]
"17th Century Cat Piss and the EWC Combustor: A Short and Partial History of the J Stove" Ethos Conference, Seattle, Jan 2004 [PDF]