The Centre

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The institutions forming CCAPC have a long history of research and publication in broad domains, including household and ambient air pollution, air quality forecasting, energy use and transitions, and environmental health. Select publications and links to additional resources from each institution are highlighted below.

The University of California Berkeley is represented by the Kirk R. Smith research group in the School of Public Health.*  It addresses the relationships among environmental quality, health, resource use, development, and policy in developing countries, with a focus on the health effects of air pollution exposure in developing countries, particularly in women and children from household air pollution due to solid fuel use.   Recent relevant publications:

1. The Indian LPG Programmes: Globally Pioneering Initiatives. Kirk R. Smith, The Indian LPG Programmes: Globally Pioneering Initiatives, Chapter 5 in Bibek Debroy & Ashok Malik, eds, India@70; Modi@3.5, Wisdom Tree, New Delhi, 2017, 211 pp.
    
2. India Leads the Way: A Health-Centered Strategy for Air Pollution. Sagar AD, Balakrishnan K, Chowdhury A, Guttikunda S, Smith KR, 2016, India leads the way: A health-centered strategy for air pollution, Environ Health Perspect 124(7): A116-117.

*Through an MOU with Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute (Deemed to be University).

The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, one of India’s leading engineering education and research institutions, is represented by its Center of Excellence in Science, Technology, and Public Policy. Recent publications: 

1. Making the clean available: Escaping India’s Chula Trap. Smith KR, Sagar A. Making the clean available: Escaping India’s Chulha Trap, Energy Policy, Volume 75, December 2014, Pages 410-414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2014.09.024.
    
2. Policy making for renewable energy in India: lessons from wind and solar power sectors. Chaudhary, A., Krishna, C., & Sagar, A. (2013). Policy making for renewable energy in India: lessons from wind and solar power sectors. Climate Policy, 15(1), 58–87. http://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2014.941318

The Department of Environmental Health Engineering at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute (Deemed to be University)
(Deemed to be University) is an accredited Center for Advanced Research on Environmental Health, (ICMR, Govt. of India) and WHO Collaborating Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan's research group has led numerous exposure assessments and health effects studies in India that have contributed to improved understandings of the linkages between exposure and disease and that have developed methods to improve exposure assessment precision and replicability. The group's work played an integral role in estimating global exposures to household air pollution for the Comparative Risk Assessment exercises of the Global Burden of Disease. 

1. State and national household concentrations of PM2.5 from solid cookfuel use: Results from measurements and modeling in India for estimation of the global burden of disease. Balakrishnan K, Ghosh S, Ganguli B, Sambandam S, Bruce NG, Barnes DF, Smith KR. (2013) State and national household concentrations of PM2.5 from solid cookfuel use: Results from measurements and modeling in India for estimation of the global burden of disease. Environmental Health 2013, 12:77 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-12-77
    
2. Household Air Pollution Exposures of Pregnant Women Receiving Advanced Combustion Cookstoves in India: Implications for Intervention
   Balakrishnan K, Sambandam S, Ghosh S, Mukhopadhyay K, Vaswani M, Arora NK, Darby J, Pillariseti A, Bates MN, Smith KR.  Household Air Pollution Exposures of Pregnant Women Receiving Advanced Combustion Cookstoves in India: Implications for Intervention. Annals of Global Health 2015;81:375–385. doi:10.1016/j.aogh.2015.08.009