Ellen Mantus
Director of Science, HEI
Dr. Ellen K. Mantus is the Director of Science at the Health Effects Institute (HEI). She oversees the Environment and Health program that primarily focuses on the relationship between air pollution exposures and health. In that role, she works with the Research and Review Committees and HEI staff to identify important research topics, develop research proposals, review research applications, oversee funded research, and review investigator reports. Previously, she was a Scholar and Director of the Chemical Sciences Roundtable on the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) where she served as the study director on more than 20 National Academies studies. As a study director, she worked closely with diverse National Academies committees to assess the underlying science and ensure successful completion of the committee reports. In recognition of her achievements at the National Academies, she was awarded the National Academies Distinguished Service Award in 2008.
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