New York City / Tuesday Oct 13,2015
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Kevin Cromar & Lars Perlmutt: Air Quality Indices

NYU Urban Seminar

Vanderbilt Hall Room 208 40 Washington Square South

Thanks to Lars Perlmutt and Kevin Cromar, who recently discussed the development of an Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) to communicate the respiratory health risks associated with short-term exposure to air pollution. 

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Speakers

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Kevin Cromar
Program Director / Health, Environment, and Policy
Clinical Associate Professor / NYU Marron Institute

Kevin Cromar, Ph.D., is a program director at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and a Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine and Population Health at New York University Grossman School of Medicine.  His research program works at the intersection of scientific research and public policy in order to generate the knowledge needed to improve health and quality of life.

His collaborative scientific and policy research has led to improvements in health, energy, transportation, and environmental policy in the US and internationally.  Highlights include leading the effort to secure public funding for the Frontrunner commuter rail extension in Utah County; enabling a compromise on heating oil regulations in New York City that led to the cleanest air quality in over 50 years; and improving risk communication of outdoor air pollution in Mexico City and in cities around the world.   

Cromar is a member of the Utah Air Quality Board and serves on the Transportation Coordinating Committee for northern Utah.  He works on federal policy issues as co-chair of the American Thoracic Society's Environmental Health Policy Committee and previously as a research scholar at the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law.  

He has organized and chaired multiple inter-agency scientific and policy workshops with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, and Centers for Disease Control. He continues to engage in international capacity building projects through expert consultations at the World Health Organization and through collaborations with UNICEF, UNEP, and the Ministry of the Environment (SEDEMA) in Mexico City.  

Cromar lives in Utah with his wife and three children.  He has a BS in Neuroscience from Brigham Young University and an MS and PhD in Environmental Health Science from New York University. 

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Lars Perlmutt
Research Scholar / Air Quality

Lars Perlmutt is a Research Scholar at the New York University Marron Institute of Urban Management. As an Environmental Health Scientist, he is focused on epidemiological studies of human populations and the health effects associated with exposure to air pollution. His current research includes developing a US-based nationwide multi-pollutant air quality index.  While a doctoral student at NYU, Perlmutt was awarded a scholarship through the Mid-Atlantic States Section of the Air and Waste Management Association Air Pollution Educational and Research Grant Program (APERG) (2013).  In 2014, Perlmutt was awarded an outstanding student poster award at the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology Annual Meeting (2014).  Previously, Perlmutt worked for the Environmental Protection Agency as part of a team investigating and applying publicly available tools to Environmental Justice research.   Perlmutt holds a Ph.D in Environmental Health Science from New York University, an MSPH in Environmental Health Science from UNC-CH and a BA in Environmental Studies from UNC-CH.