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George D. Thurston

George D. Thurston SCD, BS

Public Health
New York, New York, United States of America

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Professor Thurston is Director of the Program in Exposure Assessment and Human Health Effects at the Department of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, and is a leading scholar on the human health effects of air pollution. His research has focused on health effects of air pollution in New York City, as well as in cities across the nation and around the world. In 1987, he published the first research that showed the association between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and mortality, as well as the first paper using source apportionment methods to relate specific PM2.5 sources with mortality, especially coal burning. In New York City, this has included his Backpack Study of the effect of diesel air pollution on children with asthma in the South Bronx
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