Publications: Air Pollution

Building blocks of change: The energy, health, and climate co-benefits of more efficient brickmaking in Bangladesh | Nina Brooks, Debashish Biswas, Sameer Maithel, Sonal Kumar, Mohammad Rofi Uddin, Shoeb Ahmed, Moogdho Mahzab, Grant Miller, Mahbubur Rahman, Stephen P. Luby | Energy Research & Social Science | November 2024

The influence of wildfire smoke on ambient chemical species concentrations in the contiguous US | Emma Krasovich Southworth, Minghao Qiu, Carlos F. Gould, Ayako Kawano, Jeff Wen, Kara Kilpatrick Voss, Alandra Lopez,Scott Fendorf, Jennifer Burney, Marshall Burke | EarthArXiv | August 14, 2024

A Business Case for Human Rights at Work? Experimental Evidence on Labor Trafficking and Child Labor at Brick Kilns in Bangladesh | Grant Miller, Debashish Biswas, Aprajit Mahajan, Kimberly Singer Babiarz, Nina R. Brooks, Jessie Brunner, Sania Ashraf, Jack Shane, et. al. | NBER Working Papers | August 2024

Technological Maturity of Aircraft-Based Methane Sensing for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation | Sahar H. El Abbadi, Zhenlin Chen, Philippine M. Burdeau, Jeffrey S. Rutherford, Yuanlei Chen, Zhan Zhang, Evan D. Sherwin, Adam R. Brandt | Environmental Science and Technology | May 17, 2024

Air pollution mortality from India’s coal power plants: unit-level estimates for targeted policy | Kirat Singh, Tapas Peshin, Shayak Sengupta, Sumil K. Thakrar, Christopher W. Tessum, Jason D. Hill, Ines M. L. Azevedo , Stephen P. Luby | Environmental Research Letters | May 15, 2024 

Improved daily PM2.5 estimates in India reveal inequalities in recent enhancement of air quality | Ayako Kawano, Makoto Kelp, Minghao Qiu, Kirat Singh, Eeshan Chaturvedi, Ines Azevedo, Marshall Burke | EarthArXiv | April 1, 2024

Bridging Data Gaps for Air Quality Monitoring: Daily PM2.5 Estimates for 10 km Grid Cells in India | Ayako Kawano, Makoto Kelp, Minghao Qiu, Eeshan Chaturvedi, Sunil Dahiya, Marshall Burke | AGU 2024 | March 7, 2024

The chemical composition of wildfire smoke in the contiguous US from 2006 to 2020 | Emma Krasovich Southworth, Ayako Kawano ... | AGU Fall Meeting 2023 | December 2023

Health consequences of small-scale industrial pollution: Evidence from the brick sector in Bangladesh | Nina Brooks, Debashish Biswas, Raduan Hossin, Alexander Yu, Shampa Saha, Senjuti Saha, Samir K. Saha, Stephen P. Luby | World Development | October 2023

Dissolved Methane Recovery and Trace Contaminant Fate Following Mainstream Anaerobic Treatment of Municipal Wastewater | Stephen M. Galdi, Aleksandra Szczuka, Chungheon Shin | ACS EST Engg | January 13, 2023

The Effect of Particulate Matter Exposure During Pregnancy on Pregnancy and Child Health Outcomes in South Asia: Protocol for an Instrumental Variable Analysis | Fabian Reitzug, Stephen P Luby, Hemant K Pullabhotla, Pascal Geldsetzer | Journal of Medical Internet Research Protocols | August 10, 2022

Modeling ventilation in a low-income house in Dhaka, Bangladesh | Yunjae Hwang, Laura (Layla)Kwong, Mohammad Saeed Munim, Fosiul Alam Nizame, Stephen Luby, Catherine Gorlé | arXiv | February 3, 2022

Association between satellite-detected tropospheric nitrogen dioxide and acute respiratory infections in children under age five in Senegal: spatio-temporal analysis | Ayako Kawano, Yoonhee Kim, Michelle Meas, Karen Sokal-Gutierrez | BMC Public Health | January 26, 2022

Displacing fishmeal with protein derived from stranded methane | Sahar H. El Abbadi, Evan D. Sherwin, Adam R. Brandt, Stephen P. Luby, Craig S. Criddle | Nature Sustainability | January 2022

BRICK Lab:  Stage 2: Test Solutions | Stanford Impact Labs | 2022

Associations between ambient fine particulate matter and child respiratory infection: The role of particulate matter source composition in Dhaka, Bangladesh | Allison R Sherris, Bilkis A Begum, Michael Baiocchi, Doli Goswami, Philip K Hopke, W Abdullah Brooks, Stephen P Luby | Environmental Pollution | December 1, 2021

[Poster] Association between prenatal exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM2.5) and adverse birth outcomes in Nepal and Bangladesh using the prediction model for daily PM2.5 concentrations matched with demographic and health survey data: spatio-temporal analysis: Predicting PM2.5 in Nepal and Bangladesh using XGBoost, LightGBM, and deep learning with multisource satellite data including Sentinel-5P | Ayako Ogawa Kawano | COMPASS '21: ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies | June 28, 2021

Scalable deep learning to identify brick kilns and aid regulatory capacity | Jihyeon Lee, Nina R Brooks, Fahim Tajwar, Marshall Burke, Stefano Ermon, David B Lobell, Debashish Biswas, Stephen P Luby | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | April 27, 2021

Brick Kiln Project Collaborator:  Bangladesh Brick Manufacturers Owners Association (BBMOA) | Stanford Impact Labs | 2021

Publications:  Brick Kiln Solutions | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment | 2019

The Drivers and Impacts of Selling Soil for Brick Making in Bangladesh | Debashish Biswas, Emily S. Gurley, Shannon Rutherford, Stephen P. Luby | Environmental Management | June 1, 2018 

Pilot Intervention Study of Household Ventilation and Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations in a Low-Income Urban Area, Dhaka, Bangladesh | Anne M. Weaver, Shahana Parveen, Doli Goswami, Christina Crabtree-Ide, Carole Rudra, Jihnhee Yu, Lina Mu, Alicia M. Fry, Iffat Sharmin, Stephen P. Luby, Pavani K. Ram | The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | August 1, 2017 

Why highly polluting methods are used to manufacture bricks in Bangladesh | Stephen P. Luby, Debashish Biswas, Emily S. Gurley, Ijaz Hossain | Energy for Sustainable Development | October 1, 2015 

Household Air Quality Risk Factors Associated with Childhood Pneumonia in Urban Dhaka, Bangladesh | Pavani K. Ram, Dhiman Dutt, Benjamin J. Silk, Saumil Doshi, Carole B. Rudra, Jaynal Abedin, Doli Goswami, Alicia M. Fry, W. Abdullah Brooks, Stephen P. Luby, Adam L. Cohen | The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | May 7, 2014 

Indoor exposure to particulate matter and age at first acute lower respiratory infection in a low-income urban community in Bangladesh | Emily S. Gurley, Henrik Salje, Nusrat Homaira, Pavani K. Ram, Rashidul Haque, William A. Petri, Joseph Bresee, William J. Moss, Stephen P. Luby, Patrick Breysse, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner | American Journal of Epidemiology | Apr 15, 2014 

Impact of neighborhood biomass cooking patterns on episodic high indoor particulate matter concentrations in clean fuel homes in Dhaka, Bangladesh | H. Salje, E. S. Gurley, N. Homaira, P. K. Ram, R. Haque, W. Petri, W. J. Moss, S. P. Luby, P. Breysse, E. Azziz‐Baumgartner | Indoor Air | April 1, 2014

Indoor exposure to particulate matter and the incidence of acute lower respiratory infections among children: A birth cohort study in urban Bangladesh | E. S. Gurley, N. Homaira, H. Salje, P. K. Ram, R. Haque, W. Petri, J. Bresee, W. J. Moss, P. Breysse, S. P. Luby, E. Azziz‐Baumgartner | Indoor Air | March 21, 2013