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Sensor Demo Video
 
Latest Sensor System for Congestive Heart Failure Patients

Recent and Upcoming Talks

IRID May 31-June 2, 2011, Bethesda, MD
"Developing effective tools to combat low-level schistosomiasis transmission in Sichuan, China"
 
President's Malaria Initiative June 6-10, 2011, Zanzibar
GIS training for PlasmoTrack Malaria Elimination
 
ISEE September 13-16, 2011, Barcelona, Spain
"Mobile Phones as Personal Environmental Sensing Platforms: Development of the CalFit System"

Mobile Monday October 3, 2011, Techmart, Santa Clara
"You Say You Want A Revolution? Mobile Computing Has Arrived"

Fogerty, CDPH, China October 6-11, 2011, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
"Health Impact Assessment Training"

HIA of the Americas October 17-18, 2011, Oakland, CA
"HIA Methods in the U.S. Since 2008 Practice Standards"
"Rcaline — a tool for assessing transportation-related air pollution equity impacts"
"Supplemental Assessment of AB32, California’s Global Warming Solution Act of 2006: Environmental Health Equity Implications of Traffic-Related Particulate Matter Emissions"

UCLA October 20, 2011, Los Angeles, CA
Guest lecture for "Social Determinants of Nutrition and Health"

APHA October 29-November 2, 2011, Washington, DC
"Food Environment Data Sources in Berkeley, California- A Spatial Analysis of Four Data Sources"

TRUST November 2-3, 2011, Washington, DC
"Sensor Systems for Monitoring Congestive Heart Failure: Location-based Privacy Encodings"

RAPIDD November 15-16, 2011, Atlanta, GA
"Quantification of Fine Scale Human Movement: Revisiting Statistical and Mathematical Approaches”
 
ASTMH December 4-8, 2011, Philadelphia, PA
"Evidence for local malaria transmission in the wet season and imported malaria in the dry season in Zanzibar"

USC March 15, 2012, Los Angeles, CA
"Cumulative health impacts of traffic exposure, and new ways to assess these exposures"

National HIA Meeting April 3-4, 2012, Washington, DC
"HIA Methods Used in United States Practice Since 2009"
"Evaluation of HIA Training and Capacity-building in the United States"
"Impacts of Near Roadway Exposures on Neighborhood Health - Challenges in Choosing Metrics for Use in Community and Regional HIA"

Wireless Health 2012 October 22-25, 2012, San Diego, CA

Built Environment

Environmental Exposures and Incident Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes


The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH/NIEHS) is funding a 5-year study of the association between air pollution and noise exposures and incident hypertension and Type 2 diabetes. Based on the Black Women's Health Study cohort, this study will be first large-scale nationwide assessment of environmental exposures and incidence of hypertension and diabetes, focusing on African American women.  Drs. Seto and Jerrett at UC Berkeley are responsible for the exposure assessment for this landmark study, which will include modeling of airborne particulate, nitrogen dioxide dispersion, and community noise.

The study P.I. is Patricia Coogan, Boston University.

More about this study and the Black Women's Health Study cohort: http://www.bu.edu/slone/Research/Studies/AirPollution/AirPollution.htm


Open Source Models

Our group is dedicated to the development of open source models that can be used for exposure assessment and health impact assessment studies. We have created two such models. Both are available for the open source R language.

Rcaline.  Developed by David Holstius, Rcaline is a line source air pollution dispersion model that can be used to estimate near roadway concentrations of CO and particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10).  Rcaline

RTNM.  Developed by Edmund Seto, RTNM is an implementation of a vehicle traffic noise model that can be used assess noise exposures for environmental epidemiology studies, as well as for city-wide noise modeling.  Email: seto@berkeley.edu for software.