I teach at @ColumbiaMSPH
NYC, and elsewhere
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"Electricity access has outpaced population growth in all world regions since 2013, but the picture is still deteriorating for clean cooking in sub-Saharan Africa" from @IEA 2018 World Energy Outlook.
You can't talk about energy access in Africa without talking about cooking.
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Données concrètes sur les effets du changement climatique. Avec @darbyjack
Sous la pression du changement climatique, le Ghana repense sa santé publique gavi.org/fr/vaccineswork/sou… via @gavi
NYCHA's trash terminal goes live, eliminating rats ... youtu.be/4PbjTvoF5ew?si=2OXE…
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Amid Ghana’s efforts to expand access to liquified petroleum gas researchers have explored national incidence of severe cooking-related burns finding that solid fuel use doubled the odds of cburns compared with gas @misbath_d @darbyjack @kintampohrc
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Strong work from @misbath_d and colleagues at @weact4ej, @RockyMtnInst, @BerkeleyAir, @AccessSensor, @ColumbiaMSPH, @LamontEarth. "results suggest that decarbonization energy transitions can improve health by reducing indoor NO2" sciencedirect.com/science/ar… – at Kampala, Uganda
Impactful research providing Kampala-specific reference-grade PM2.5 air pollution exposures and burden of disease estimates - congrats to @AtuyambeL, @samuel_etajak and the rest of the @MakSPH @GEOHealthHub in Kampala. nature.com/articles/s41370-0…
fascinating day yesterday at the @IEA Clean Cooking in Africa summit. Running into former postdoc @Abhishek_Kar_AK was a highlight! – at Paris, France
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Thanks to support from @cleancooking & partners, policymakers & businesses are realizing that #CleanCooking is a huge business opportunity & solvable problem, especially when supported by robust #CarbonMarkets.
Read more via @Nichferris @EnergyMonitorAI: ow.ly/z0yn50QIizj
Congratulations @Abhishek_Kar_AK, @kp_asante and the teams at @Columbia, @BrenUCSB and @KhrcGhana ! These are important results and will feed in to ongoing policy work in Ghana.
My new paper in @NatureEnergyJnl with @darbyjack @kp_asante,Kelsey Jack @EconomicsUcsb &colleagues: as factors that impact(driver/barrier) household transition from polluting fuels to LPG in Ghana vary with transition stage we need differentiated campaigns
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People who commute by bike have:
- a 52% lower risk of death from heart disease;
- a 46% lower risk of developing heart disease;
- a 40% lower risk of death from cancer
- a 45% lower risk of developing cancer
#CityMakingMath British study in @bmj_latest: bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j145…
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Does cooking with gas increase health risks?
Our new randomized study says yes. We find that NO2 exposures are 50% higher when you cook with gas vs. induction.
@MarshallBBurke @darbyjack @USFQ_Ecuador @UCSanDiegoSPH @stanforddoerr @ColumbiaMSPH
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very exciting workshop earlier this week with Government of Ghana partners on our clean household energy transition collaboration (@KhrcGhana + @BrenUCSB + @ColumbiaMSPH)
The Combating Household Air Pollution(CHAP) team comprising @khrcghana,@Columbia and @UofCalifornia supported by the Columbia World Projects (CWP), this year successfully organized another stakeholders’ workshop involving more stakeholders to discuss CWP phase II study activities
A bit late to the parade... but a huge congratulations to @misbath_d for her truly excellent dissertation defense and her new position at UC Berkeley! Working with you has been an absolute delight and I can't wait to see what you do next.
Thank you @joanacasey & @darbyjack for the incredible amount of support over the past 4 years. Couldn’t have done it without you!
Darby Jack retweeted
“If any population group has a just claim to use a fossil fuel that offers substantial health benefits as the world decarbonises, it is Africa’s poor.” @ConversationUS
Related in EHP ➡️ ow.ly/pIPH50OPMIB
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I hope this groundbreaking bill at the Ghana’s 🇬🇭 Parlament will be approved! 👏👏Clean air as a fundamental right. #AirPollution #breathelife @WHOGhana @WHOAFRO @ghanamissionun
Ghana's Parliament is currently considering a groundbreaking bill that would enshrine clean air as a fundamental human right. This initiative, led by the Hon @fx_sosu, underscores the need for governments to tackle the air pollution and climate crisis together. #AirPollution
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Forget about discount rates. This new guidance on capturing distributional concerns is the show stopper. Because this isn't just an assumption tweak. It's an entirely different approach to cost-benefit analysis. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/up…
"America’s mortality problem is driven primarily by deaths among the young... "
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🔥New Study🔥 We see reduced under-5 mortality from a widespread nationwide transition from cooking with firewood to cooking with gas over 30 years in Ecuador.
NEW RESEARCH: Widespread Clean Cooking Fuel Scale-Up and under-5 Lower Respiratory Infection Mortality: An Ecological Analysis in Ecuador, 1990-2019 ➡️ ow.ly/OK1950Nv8n8 @ColumbiaMSPH @stanforddoerr @USFQ_Ecuador @IcahnMountSinai @UCB_EHS @gould_cf @darbyjack @_ajayp
