Chris Griffiths
University of Toronto
Chris Griffiths is Professor of Primary Care at the Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences at the University of Oxford, and Queen Mary University of London. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Respiratory Research Innovation and Impact.
Chris is a primary care physician with an interest in respiratory health, in particular health impacts of air pollution. He leads the CHILL cohort evaluating the impacts of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone and is chief investigator of the HEI-funded IONA study, evaluating impacts of non-tailpipe emissions on adults with asthma.
With Greg Evans (Toronto) and Ian Mudway (London) he leads NEXUS: a new international transdisciplinary partnership addressing health impacts of non-tailpipe pollution.
Partner Session – Health Effects Institute
Room: Samberg Salon MI
The Health Effects Institute (HEI) was created in 1980 as a nonprofit corporation to address a need among government, industry, and other sectors for impartial science of the highest quality to inform policy decisions around motor vehicle emissions. HEI’s long-standing government-industry partnership, independent research model, and impartiality have allowed it to maintain credibility as it provides science to sponsors and other sectors often with competing interests. In this session, HEI’s rigorous model will be described; this model has been applied for more than four decades to yield credible research that has informed important health-protective policy decisions. A few examples of impactful HEI-funded research will be highlighted, and two HEI-funded investigators will present their research that was funded to investigate exposure to non-tailpipe particulate emissions and possible health effects associated with those emissions.
- HEI: A Model for Producing Impartial Science.
Speaker: Elena Craft, President, HEI - A History of Policy-Relevant Science.
Speaker: Ellen Mantus, Director of Science, HEI - Assessing the Impact of Non‐Tailpipe Emissions from Traffic on the Asthmatic Airway (IONA).
Speaker: Chris Griffiths, Queen Mary University of London - Improved Characterization of the Real‐World Contributions and Impacts of Non-tailpipe Particulate Matter Emissions.
Speaker: Greg Evans, University of Toronto - Q&A – Elena Craft, President, HEI