August 27, 2024 – TUESDAY

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08:00 – 08:45

J. GOLDSMITH AWARD LECTURE

Chairs: Jaime E. Hart, Tanya Singh

Pesticides and the brain: is epidemiologic research informing policy?- Beate Ritz

08:45 – 09:30

Keynote Lecture 3

Chair: Ruth Etzel

Building bridges with a community: success stories and cautionary tales – Brenda Eskenazi

09:30 – 10:00COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
10:00 – 11:30
(Hybrid Session)
Symposium 10
Why Countering Harmful Industry Impacts and Exposures on Health is Critical for Environmental Justice

Chairs: Tracey J Woodruff & Nicholas Chartres

Industry as the 21st Century Vector of Disease – Tracey Woodruff
How can the integrity of occupational and environmental health research be maintained in the presence of conflicting interests? – Lisa Bero
A Case Study in Scientific Integrity: The IARC Monograph Programme Glyphosate Review – Kurt Straif
Glyphosate and Chemical Regulatory Anomalies – Yogi Hendlin
The science of spin: targeted strategies to manufacture doubt with detrimental effects on environmental and public health – Laura Vandenberg

11:30 – 13:00
(Hybrid Session)
Symposium 13
TROPIC Network: A Tropical Cyclone Network for International Health and Resilience

Chairs: Robbie M. Parks & Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou

Evolution of global tropical cyclone exposure risk – Victoria D. Lynch
Excess mortality and disease incidence following tropical cyclones in Korea – Changwoo Han
Impacts of tropical cyclones to diarrhoeal diseases in the Northwest Pacific Basin countries – Szu Yu Lin
The burden of mortality attributable to tropical cyclones and heavy rainfall events in Japan – Lisa Yamasaki
Long-term effects of tropical cyclones on community social vulnerability in the United States: A novel quasi-experimental study – Lincole Jiang

13:00 – 14:30LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00
(Hybrid Session)
Symposium 15
Environmental Injustice and health disparities in global contexts

Chairs: Kwaku Poku Asante, Sokhna Thiam

Environmental racism and triple burden of diseases in the Brazilian context – Homègnon A. Ferréol Bah
Challenges associated with implementing cost-effective nutrition strategies to reduce health effects associated with air-pollution among vulnerable groups in Africa – Sylvia Akpene Takyi
Sustainable Environmental Justice and Indigenous Communities: Empowering Voices, Protecting Rights – Rosemary Anderson Akolaa
Birth Lottery or Environmental Roulette? Exploring the Multifaceted environmental challenges in Rural Northern Ghana – Ali Moro
Fine outdoor particulate matter and behavioral problems in school-age children in Accra, Ghana – Youssef Oulhote

16:00 – 16:30COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
16:30 – 17:30Pecha Kucha Session 08
Uncovering the health impacts of air pollution

Chairs: Dimitris Evangelopoulos & Tiana Moreira

Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality Measurements near a Highway in Somerville, MA – Francesca Majluf
Air pollution mixture associated with oxidative stress exacerbation and symptoms deterioration in allergic rhinitis patients: evidence from a panel study – Jinhui Li
GEOHealth Health Effects of Selected Environmental Exposomes Across the Life CourSe (HEALS)-India – Dorairaj Prabhakaran
Characterising carbon monoxide exposure in household dwellings in middle- and high-income countries – a literature review – Sarah V Williams
How are air pollution and meteorological factors related to Covid-19 infections? – Leona Hoffmann
Air pollution exposure and DNA methylation of clock and clock-related genes: results from the DeprAir study – Michele Carugno
Scoping Review on Health Effects of Air Pollution in East Africa – Pallavi Pant
Health benefits of air pollution control policies targeting mobile vehicles and electricity generating units – Haisu Zhang
Knowledge and practices related to Ambient Air Pollution in an urban population in the Capital City of India – Harshal Ramesh Salve
Estimating global trends of air pollution, air pollution-attributable disease burdens, and CO2 emissions in 13,000 cities using large geospatial datasets – Soo-Yeon Kim
Evaluation of the performance of a passive air sampling technique to measure current-use pesticides in a tropical environment – Karla Solano

17:30 – 19:00
(Hybrid Session)
Symposium 17
Stories of Policy Success: Real Examples of Inspiring Science-based Air Quality and Climate Action Around the World

Chairs: Hanna Boogaard & Ebba Malmqvist

Taking Stock of the Revision to the Ambient Air Quality Directives in Europe – Barbara Hoffmann
The USA Outlook on Air Quality Action – from Science to Policy – Mary Rice
Pursuit of Clean Air in India – Pallavi Pant
Opportunities for Promoting Integrated Action on Air Pollution and Climate Change in Africa – Evelyne Touré
Clean Air and Climate in Chile and beyond: Protecting the Most Susceptible and Vulnerable Populations – María Elisa Quinteros Cáceres
Air Quality and Climate Actions in the Oil Fields of Ecuador: protecting the local population in the Amazon – Alexandra Almeida

20:00 – 00:00CONFERENCE DINNER
08:00 – 08:45
(Hybrid Session)

J. GOLDSMITH AWARD LECTURE

Chairs: Jaime E. Hart, Tanya Singh

Pesticides and the brain: is epidemiologic research informing policy?- Beate Ritz

08:45 – 09:30
(Hybrid Session)

Keynote Lecture 3

Chair: Ruth Etzel

Building bridges with a community: success stories and cautionary tales – Brenda Eskenazi

09:30 – 10:00COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
10:00 – 11:30
(Hybrid Session)

Symposium 11
Wood heaters – assessing health impacts, environmental justice, and sustainable development implications

Chairs: Sotiris Vardoulakis & Geoffrey Morgan

It takes a village: Big data and community science to support local action on residential woodsmoke in Canada – Sarah Henderson
The health burden of residential wood heating in Australia, a health impact assessment – Nicolas Borchers Arriagada
Residential wood burning in Southern Chile: a perinatal health study in Temuco – Estela Blanco
Residential wood smoke exposure and hypertension in the Helsinki Capital Region, Finland – Enembe Okokon
Reducing exposure to residential wood smoke in Australia: health equity, environmental justice, and implementation challenges and opportunities – Sotiris Vardoulakis

11:30 – 13:00
(Hybrid Session)

Symposium 14
Exploring Methodologies and Applications of Multicentric Epidemiological Studies in Environmental Health: Lessons and Insights

Chairs: Manolis Kogevinas & Maggie Clark

Design issues in observational multicentric studies – Manolis Kogevinas
Multicentric environmental health intervention trials: insights from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial – Maggie Clark
Biomarker data in multicentric cohort studies: insights from European early-life exposome projects – Léa Maitre
The Multi-Country Multi-City (MCC) Collaborative Research Network: novel study designs and methodological advancements for multicentric studies – Antonio Gasparrini
CIDACS-Clima Platform: A resource to study the environment, climate and health in Brazil – Mauricio Barreto

13:00 – 14:30LUNCH BREAK

13:20-14:10

Sponsored Collaboration Workshop

14:30 – 16:00
(Hybrid Session)

Symposium 16
Pesticides and Health in Latin America: Investigating novel insights into neurobehavior and birth outcomes within the context of impacted communities.

Chairs: Jose Ricardo Suarez-Lopez & María Teresa Muñoz-Quezada

Pesticide Exposure and Children’s Neurodevelopment at Five and Six Years in the ISA Birth Cohort Costa Rica – L. Diego Conejo-Bolaños
Pesticide Exposure and Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women Living in the Brazilian Amazon – Rafael Buralli
Pesticide Exposure and Neurobehavioral Performance across various Agricultural Spray Seasons in Ecuador, and implementation of Agroecological Production Alternatives – Dolores Lopez-Paredes
Pesticide Exposure and Neurophysiological and Neurobehavioral Effects in Chilean Rural Communities: Health Impacts and Challenges from Scientific Evidence” – Boris Lucero Mondaca

16:00 – 16:30COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
16:30 – 17:30

Pecha Kucha Session 09
Chemical exposures and health outcomes II

Chairs: Shannon Sullivan & Sotiris Vardoulakis

Unraveling chemical exposures in household dust and their impact on children’s health – Paula Marcineková
A case-control study of early-life residential exposure to perchloroethylene and risks of childhood leukemia and congenital anomalies – Mark P. Purdue
Associations of gestational phthalate and phenol exposure with infant cognition – Nicholas G. Cragoe
Respiratory Changes in Children Exposed to Mining Waste Dust in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Bruminha Project – Ana Paula Natividade de Oliveira
Returning chemical exposure results to women in environmental justice communities: involving clinicians to improve outcomes. – Nobel O Hernández Otero
Chemical exposomics in plasma from Swedish women and associations with breast cancer risk factors – Jessica Edlund
Genome-wide DNA methylation profiles and breast cancer among WTC survivors – Stephanie Tuminello
Metabolism-Disrupting Chemical Mixtures in Pregnancy, Folic Acid Supplementation, and Liver Injury in Mother-Child Pairs – Sandra India Aldana
Lipophilic Persistent Organic Pollutant and Percentage Changes of Blood Pressure Five Years after Bariatric Surgery among Adolescents: A Mixtures Approach – Shudi Pan

17:30 – 19:00
(Hybrid Session)

Symposium 18
10 years after the IARC Monograph: What do we know now about air pollution as a carcinogen?

Chairs: Rena Jones & Alexandra White

How air pollution is related to the incidence of hormone-sensitive cancers in women – Alexandra White
Industrial and other point source air pollution and cancer risk – Rena Jones
Particulate matter air pollution as a complex mixture – George Thurston
Health disparities in air pollution exposure sources/levels – Iona Cheng
Air pollution and cancers other than lung: evidence from ESCAPE and ELAPSE projects – Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

20:00 – 00:00CONFERENCE DINNER
08:00 – 08:45

J. GOLDSMITH AWARD LECTURE

Chairs: Jaime E. Hart, Tanya Singh

Pesticides and the brain: is epidemiologic research informing policy?- Beate Ritz

08:45 – 09:30

Keynote Lecture 3

Chair: Ruth Etzel

Building bridges with a community: success stories and cautionary tales – Brenda Eskenazi

09:30 – 10:00COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
10:00 – 11:30
(Hybrid Session)

Symposium 12
Occurrence and Health Impacts on Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs)

Chairs: Po-Chin Huang & Shoji F. Nakayama

Occurrence and Temporal Changes of Emerging and Legacy Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the General Population of Taiwan and East-Asian After 2013 – Po-Chin Huang
Association of PFAS with thyroid hormone levels in women from a highly exposed community in North Carolina, USA – Jane Hoppin
Serum concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and risk of renal cell carcinoma: Recent findings from prospective cohorts – Jonathan N Hofmann
Association between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and Japanese children’s health and development – Yu Ait Bamai
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and children’s health in JECS – Shoji F. Nakayama

11:30 – 13:00

Traditional Oral Session 15

Health Impacts of Chemical Exposure: From Vulnerable Populations to Global Concerns

Chair: Laura C. Arboleda Merino Ethics Discussants: Lissa F Soares and Atanu Sarkar

Social and Environmental Injustice of Plastic Pollution: Report of the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health – Adetoun Mustapha
Association between PFAS and inflammation biomarkers among U.S adolescents – Chan Li
Loss of Cognitive Function in Mexican children due to lead exposure and the associated economic costs – Jose Luis Figueroa
Social vulnerability and cadmium’s impact on cognition among older adults in the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey – Laura C. Arboleda Merino
Exposure to uncommon industrial toxicants in an environmental justice community in coastal GA, USA – Noah Scovronick

13:00 – 14:30LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00

Traditional Oral Session 17
Temperature variability and health effects

Chairs: Kenza Khomsi & Luis Cifuentes

Set when the sun rises, rise when the sun sets: Climate change adaptive strategies of small holder farmers in Vietnam – Miranda Dally
Subnational analysis of the burden of mortality attributable to non-optimal temperature in Colombia, 2010-2019 – Rodrigo Sarmiento Suarez
Children’s Cardiovascular Health in a Changing Climate: Associations of Prenatal Heat Stress and Nature-Based Adaptation Features with Child Blood Pressure – Shohreh F Farzan
Mortality burden from Heat and extreme heat exposure in Chile, 1990-2017 – Luis Cifuentes
Spatial patterns of heat exposure and child hospital admissions in Aotearoa New Zealand – Hakkan Lai

16:00 – 16:30COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
16:30 – 17:30

Pecha Kucha Session 10
Climate change, temperature variations and health effects

Chairs: Stella Hartinger & Malebo Makunyane

Higher temperatures are associated with lower birthweight in Bangladesh – Elizabeth Ludwig Borycz
Residential green space and summer heat stress: a repeated cross-sectional study – Eva Beele
Association between Climatic Factors and Pregnancy Loss – Aashna Pranav Shah
Examination of the association between temperature variability and cardiovascular and respiratory mortality in South Africa, 2006–2016 – Malebo Makunyane
Estimating excess mortality during heat waves using a causal inference framework and non-randomized time series – Marie Abele Bind
Heat-related deaths in England and Wales: contributions of climate change and vulnerability – Kai Wan
Body Mass Index as Effect Modifier of Heatwave and Cold Spell Mortalities: Longitudinal Study in China – Di Xi
DLNMs, extreme heat and the risk of mortality in the 27 State Brazilian Capitals – Alindomar Lacerda Silva
Heat-related mortality in Mexico: A multi-scale perspective on health effects and vulnerability to extreme heat over space – Lara Schwarz
Projections of the Future Heat Health Burden: The Influence of Climate, Socioeconomic and Demographic Change – Rebecca Cole

17:30 – 19:00

Traditional Oral Session 20
Community-Driven Approaches to Environmental Justice

Chairs: Matthew J. Ward Ethics Discussants: Linda Kahn and Carl Grimes

Principles for Robust Cumulative Risk Assessment – Jessica Trowbridge
Promotion of environmental health literacy through culturally competent educational materials – Chrystal M Galán Rivera
Cold and costly to sweaty and stressed: how an NGO-led citizen science project measures indoor temperature to advocate for change – Adelle Mansour
Implementing community-based participatory research for environmental justice: Insights from the West London Healthy Home and Environment study – Munira Suleiman Elmi
Hair Care Product Exposure Among Pregnant Women of Color in New York City: Feasibility of a Mixed-Methods Educational Intervention Study – Jasmine A Mcdonald
Two-way community engagement in environmental (in)justice research: lessons learned from northwest Indiana, USA – Ellen M Wells

20:00 – 00:00CONFERENCE DINNER
09:30 – 10:00COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
10:00 – 11:30

Traditional Oral Session 11
Climate change and disparities

Chairs: Risto Conte Keivabu & Ang Li

Are frail populations more vulnerable to temperature-related mortality? The case of Sweden, 2001-2020 – Risto Conte Keivabu
Health risks from non-optimal temperatures in different populations and regions in China: tailored intervention strategies are needed – Yonghong Li
Amplified Harm: LGBTQ+ Disaster Displacement – Jessica Geiger
Disparities of Electronic Vehicle Adoption in California and Urban Gentrification: A Community Dialogue Informed Approach – Erika Garcia
Sickle cell, thalassemia, and heat – an environmental justice concern: results from a pilot study using California hospitalization records, 1999-2019 – Dharshani Pearson

11:30 – 13:00

Traditional Oral Session 16
Impact of pesticide exposure: from developmental neurobehavior to cardiovascular health

Chairs: Jessica Madrigal & Boris Lucero

Interrelationships of Prenatal Pyrethroid Exposure, Placental Gene Network Modules, and Neonatal Neurobehavior – Yewei Wang
Association of Prenatal Pesticide Exposure with Measures of Cognitive Performance in Midlife: Evidence from the Child Health and Development Studies – Pam Factor Litvak
Assessment of associations between exposure to pesticide mixtures and neurobehavioral outcomes in Ugandan farmers employing state-of-the-art multi-pollutant models – Anouk Petitpierre
Urinary Glyphosate and mortality in the 2013-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) – Emanuela Taioli
Effects of pesticides on cardiovascular health assessed through heart rate variability: a systematic review – María Victoria Rodríguez Contreras
Associations between Pesticide Metabolites and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Adolescents and Children Living in an Agricultural Region – Mohammed Nour Hussari

13:00 – 14:30LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00

Traditional Oral Session 18
Methods in Modeling for environmental epidemiology and exposure assessment

Chairs: Nikolaos Stratakis & Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou

Modeling time-varying dispersion to improve estimation of the short-term health effect of environmental exposure in a time-series design – Danlu Zhang
Modeling joint health effects of temperature and air pollution mixtures using Bayesian regression tree ensembles – Jacob Englert
Distributed Lag Models for Estimating Acute Effects of Mixed Environmental Exposures in the Case-crossover Design – Yue Zhang
Assessing the impact of air pollution and temperature on population health: a question of effect modification or interaction? – Michela Baccini
Unbiased temperature-mortality estimates using weekly and monthly health data – Joan Ballester
Improved Selection of Pairwise Interaction Effects via Automated Calibration of Hierarchical Group-LASSO Regularization in a Stability Selection Framework. – Ruben Julius Colindres Zuehlke

16:00 – 16:30COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
16:30 – 17:30

Pecha Kucha Session 11
Old pollutants, new boundaries: expanding the knowledge on air pollution and health

Chairs: Laura Andrea Rodriguez Villamizar & Alexandra Schneider

Associations Between Experiences of Discrimination, Socioeconomic and Racial Polarization, and Birth Outcomes in the Atlanta African American Maternal Child Cohort – Jasmin A Eatman
The Effect of Coke Plant Shutdown on Air Pollution: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Source-Apportioned PM2.5 – Wuyue Yu
Gene-environment interaction between exposure to smoky coal combustion and a polygenic risk score with the risk of lung cancer – Batel Blechter
A history of environmental injustice: segregation and air pollution in 1940 and 2010 in the United States – Jenni A Shearston
Chemical characterization and source identification of indoor PM2.5 in urban and rural households in India – Jyothi S Menon
Modification effects of fish oil supplementation on the association between ozone and arterial stiffness – Xiaochuan Pan
Patterns of health by gender in a “zone of sacrifice”: social and environmental factors for chronic diseases in Coronel, Chile – Sandra Cortés
Household air pollution exposure assessment using low-cost air monitors: results from a large prospective cohort (HEALS-AIR) study in Bangladesh. – Saira Tasmin
Use of satellite data to increase public health advisories for poor air quality in the sugarcane growing region of Florida – Laura C Myers
Lung function and symptoms of exposure to the approximately 3 months volcanic eruption in La Palma Island (Spain) 2021 – Ruano Alberto Ravino

17:30 – 19:00

Traditional Oral Session 21
Environmental and planetary health insights

Chairs: Tamara Schikowski & Zulkhairul Naim Bin Sidek Ahmad

Epidemiological situation of melioidosis with economic characteristics and health service influence, Thailand, 2016-2020 – Patcharaporn Dejburum
Anthropogenic origin pollutants shape microbial metabolites in an alpine soil, Romania – Emoke Dalma Kovacs
Association of Biodiversity and Greenness with Cardiovascular Disease Incidence in a Nationwide US Prospective Cohort Study of Women (1988–2018) – Charlotte Roscoe
Land use impact on soil microbial community in Continental Transylvania (Romania) – Melinda Haydee Kovacs
Health and environmental impacts of reducing animal-source foods in diet, comparing dietary distances from reference diets in EPIC – Lorenzo Mangone
Does intermittent water supply influence beverage consumption patterns among adolescents and adults in Mexico? A nationally representative, cross-sectional analysis – Juan Carlos Figueroa

20:00 – 00:00CONFERENCE DINNER
09:30 – 10:00COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
10:00 – 11:30

Traditional Oral Session 12
Respiratory health and environmental exposures I
Chairs: Ashtyn Tracey Areal & Bénédicte Jacquemin

Air pollution, genetic susceptibility and risk of progression from asthma to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – Yutong Samuel Cai
Meteorological associations of maximum temperature on airway obstruction in elderly German women – Ashtyn Tracey Areal
Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Lower Respiratory Infection in Adults: Evidence From Over 16-Years’ Follow-Up for Danish National Cohort – Jiawei Zhang
Traffic emissions and greenspace exposure and associations with respiratory outcomes among urban children and adolescents in India – Sowmya Malamardi
Mediation of immunological markers in the association between per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) and respiratory outcomes among Inuit adults – Amira M Aker

11:30 – 13:00

Flash Oral Session 16
Unveleing the links between short-term exposure to air pollution and health effects

Chairs: Diana Alcantara & Youssef Oulhote

Short-term association of oxidative stress and inflammation with personal exposure to ozone: A pilot study – Iván Yassmany Hernández Paniagua
Effects of Air Pollution on Pediatric Incident Seizure: A Case-crossover Analysis – Junfeng (jim) Zhang
Short-term exposure to ultrafine particles and respiratory infection hospital admissions in children – Marie Bergmann
The association between the Daily Air Quality Index, inhaler prescriptions and mortality following Guy Fawkes Night celebrations in the UK – Laura J Horsfall
Particulate Matter induces Renal Inflammation, Oxidative Stress and Fibrosis in Animal Model of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) – Duk Hee Kang
Maternal exposure to air pollution and risk of stillbirth in São Paulo, Brazil – Results from the FetRisks case-control study – Rafael Buralli
Changes in PM2.5 toxicity in three large US cities during 2005-2019 – Stefanie Ebelt
Modification of the Association Between PM2.5 and Heart Rate by β-Blocker Prescription Among Heart Failure Patients – Morgan Narain
Characterizing air and noise pollution in elementary schools in Accra, Ghana – Raphael Edem Arku

13:00 – 14:30LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00

Traditional Oral Session 19
Environmental epidemiology and one health: global perspectives II
Chairs: Atiqul Haque & Hannah McClymont

Temporal dynamics of COVID-19 transmission and public health interventions: A multi-city analysis of Australian capital cities in different climate zones – Hannah McClymont
Assessing the sentinel capacity of mollusks for monitoring antimicrobial resistance in the marine environment – Gabriel Arriagada
A Habitat Suitability Analysis for Three {Culicoides} Species Implicated in Bluetongue Virus Transmission in the Southeastern United States – Peter Kessinger
Animal waste management and antibiotic-resistant {E. coli} in subsistence farming households of rural Nepal – Heather K Amato
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards the risk of zoonotic diseases, wildlife trade and wildlife consumption in Latin America – María Teresa Solís Soto
Swine fecal waste source tracking on household surfaces proximal to swine concentrated animal feeding operations in southeastern North Carolina, USA. – Kathleen M Kurowski

16:00 – 16:30COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
16:30 – 17:30

Pecha Kucha Session 12
Urban drivers of environmental exposure disparities
Chairs: Anmol Anand Pardeshi & Rebecca Bentley

Simulating desegregation through affordable housing development: an environmental health impact assessment of Connecticut zoning law – Daniel Carrión
Tenant Reports of Poor Housing Conditions Are Associated with Neighborhood Rate of Childhood Asthma Emergency Department Visits in Boston, MA – Sophia S Carryl
Indoor mould and population health: estimating the costs in Australia – Rebecca Bentley
Environmental exposures and residential mobility among Hispanic and non-Hispanic White families in California – Anmol Anand Pardeshi
Blackouts in Massachusetts, 2013 to 2022: Exposure Description and Environmental Justice – Amruta Nori-Sarma
PM2.5 exposure disparities persist despite strict vehicle emissions controls in California – Libby H. Koolik
Body dissatisfaction widens the racial disparities of Benzophenone-3, a chemical biomarker of personal care and consumer product usage – Vy Kim Nguyen
Roads to Environmental Health Disparities: Unveiling the Effects of Early Life Stress on the Acute Inflammatory Response to Traffic Pollution – Hector Alfonso Olvera Alvarez
Strengthening the Consideration of Social Susceptibility/Vulnerability in Human Health Risk Assessment: Data and Methodological Needs – Onyemaechi Nweke
Systematic evidence maps of psychosocial stressors, environmental exposures, and cardiovascular diseases to inform health disparities research and action – Ruth M Lunn

17:30 – 19:00

Flash Oral Session 24
Modeling and predicting on air pollution and health effects
Chairs: Christian Sewor & Barbara Hoffmann

 

Number of samples needed to estimate long-term household air pollution – Kyle Steenland
WellHome: A Community-Based Study for Investigating Indoor Air Pollution in an Urban Community in London, England. – Diana Varaden
Assessing atmospheric pollution concentrations in Mexico for chronic exposure models: a remote sensing approach – J. Miguel Salazar
Multinational modelling of fine particulate matter and carbon monoxide exposures from household air pollution in peri-urban Sub-Saharan Africa – Matt Shupler
A simulation study analyzing the impact of differential exposure measurement error of air pollution on preterm birth – Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou
Machine Learning Methods for Source Characterization of Ambient Ultrafine Particles in an Urban Community – Sean C Mueller
Estimation of 15 Particulate Matter Components in the U.S. from 2000-2019 using 3-Stage Ensemble of Machine Learning Models – Bryan N. Vu
Impact of a decadal change in ambient air quality on mortality in Canada: a nationwide analysis –Hong Chen

20:00 – 00:00CONFERENCE DINNER
09:30 – 10:00COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
10:00 – 11:30

Traditional Oral Session 13
Prenatal exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes

Chairs: Josh Alampi & Katarzyna Kordas

Associations between mixtures of placental PFAS levels and neurodevelopmental outcomes at 12 and 24 months of age in Arkansas, US – Neha Sehgal
Early Life Phthalate Exposure Impacts Gray Matter, White Matter, and Total Cortical Volume in Infants and Young Children – Emily J Werder
Prenatal exposure to a metal mixture and sleep disturbance in preschool-aged children – Francheska M. Merced Nieves
Exposure to air pollutants on maternal internal exposome during pregnancy and its impact on the child neurodevelopment at first year. – Jonatan Alejandro Mendoza Ortega
Prenatal exposure to metals and metalloids and child neurodevelopment outcomes in Puerto Rico – Savannah M. Sturla Irizarry
Facial and content validity of the CDC-NIOSH“Dampness and Mold Assessment Tool. General Buildings” into Latin American Spanish – Raquel Rivera Carvajal
Prenatal chlorpyrifos and pyrethroid exposure and children’s cortical brain activation in the ISA birth cohort, Costa Rica: an exploratory study – Berna Van Wendel De Joode

11:30 – 13:00

Flash Oral Session 17
Health impacts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure

Chairs: Brittney O. Baumert & Maria Jose Talayero

Cross-sectional associations between prenatal maternal per-/poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and bioactive lipids in three Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes cohorts – Himal Sunil Suthar
Association between prenatal plasma concentrations of perfluoroalkyl substances and long-term maternal metabolic health – Jana Palaniyandi
Pharmacokinetic (PK) modeling of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure among children in the general population – Yerin Jung
Exposure to Perfluoroalkyl Substances is Associated with Longitudinal Changes in Adiposity in a Hispanic Adolescent Cohort – Emily Beglarian
Determinants of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Exposure among Wisconsin Residents – Rachel Pomazal
Predictors and temporal trends of maternal plasma per and poly-fluoroalkyl substances at delivery: Boston Birth Cohort, 1998-2016 – Giehae Choi
Investigating trace concentrations of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in London drinking water – Alexandra Kate Richardson
Placental DNA methylation levels associated with individual and mixtures of PFAS in healthy human pregnancies – Todd Everson
PFHpA alters lipid metabolism and increases the risk of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in youth—a translational research framework – Brittney Olivia Baumert

13:00 – 14:30LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00

Flash Oral Session 20
Wildfires, air pollution, and health impacts – from understanding to acting

Chairs: Dwan Vilcins & Kelvin Fong

The prolonged impact of a one-day wildfire on community health: Findings from the 2023 Gangneung wildfire in Korea – Changwoo Han
Associations between wildfire smoke PM2.5 and respiratory emergency department (ED) visits in the Western United States, 2007 to 2018 – Wenhao Wang
Wildfire-Induced Shifts in PM2.5 Speciation Across the Contiguous US and Southern Canada – Zhihao Jin
Climate Resiliency in Action: Building Community Resilience To Reduce Wildfire Smoke Exposure in British Columbia, Canada – Ravneet Mundi
Prenatal Wildfire Smoke Exposure and Child Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Outcomes – Rebecca J Schmidt
Climate Vulnerability Modifies Fetal Growth with Heat Stress and Wildfire Smoke Exposure during Preconception and Pregnancy – Roxana Khalili
Long-term exposure to wildfire smoke PM2.5 and mortality in the contiguous United States – Yiqun Ma
Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Pediatric Asthma Hospital and Emergency Department Visits in Northern California – Rebecca A. Sugrue
Modelling the mortality burden attributable to future fire-related PM2.5 for Paraguay under CMIP6 climate projections – Nicolas Borchers Arriagada

16:00 – 16:30COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
16:30 – 17:30

Pecha Kucha Session 13
Food contamination and health risks

Chairs: Alejandra Cantoral & Homegnon Antonin Ferreol Bah

Spatio-temporal modeling of aflatoxin contamination in Texas corn and liver cancer incidence – Sean Gregory Young
Big data and machine learning-based nutritional and health assessment of dietary patterns – Teresa Rebelo
Human milk and environmental pollutants: exploratory study in a maternity in Rio de Janeiro – Laís Araújo Da Silva
Association between food insecurity and colorectal cancer screening using the New York State Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) – Tara Ivic Pavlicic
Food insecurity and social vulnerability in children affected by an environmental disaster – Maíra Lopes Mazoto
Reverse-Engineered Exclusive Enteral Nutrition As Induction Therapy In Pediatric Crohn’s Disease: Effects on Systemic Immunity and Environmental Toxin Exposure – Elizabeth Alexandra Reznikov
Content of heavy metals in baby foods and most consumed foods in Mexican Population – Alejandra Cantoral
Mycotoxin exposure and their potential risk in the Maule Cohort (MAUCO), Chile. – Claudia Foerster

17:30 – 19:00

Flash Oral Session 25

Climate change and health outcomes

Chairs: Mislael A. Valentin Cortes & Kai Chen

Analyzing the Saharan oscillation index, and its correlation with climate indices – Younes Tebbaai
Examining the effects of power outages on cardiovascular hospitalizations among Medicare enrollees in New York State, 2007-2008 – Vivian Do
Short-term exposure to relative humidity and lung health in early adolescents – Nicholas J Nassikas
Ultraviolet radiation and systemic lupus erythematosus: combining evidence from mendelian randomization with a time series distributed lag non-liner model – Ting Gan
Compounding Disasters, Reproductive Health Outcomes and Colonialism: Analysis from Puerto Rico, Texas and Florida, 2017-2022 – Mislael A. Valentin Cortes
A novel application of Standard Precipitation Index estimates to identify climate-related mortality risks in the Agricultural Health Study – Richard V Remigio
Associations between local 30-day averages of weather variables and notifications of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in Aotearoa New Zealand 2010-2019 – Farnaz Pourzand

20:00 – 00:00CONFERENCE DINNER
09:30 – 10:00 COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
10:00 – 11:30

Traditional Oral Session 14

Chemical Exposures and Cancer Incidence

Chairs: Mohammad Rahman & Sandra Cortes

Decoding Chemical Exposome of a Typical Regionally Prevalent Disease: Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in North China – Shenxi Deng
Dose response analysis of protracted absorbed organ dose and site-specific cancer incidence in Sweden after the Chernobyl accident – Martin Tondel
Spatial Distribution of PFAS-Contaminated Public Water Systems and Incidence of Kidney and Thyroid Cancer – Resa M Jones
Metabolomics signatures of air pollution mixtures and lung cancer risk: Large-Scale Metabolome-Wide Association Study in the Cancer Prevention Study Cohorts – Sabrina S. Chow
Serum concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and risk of ovarian cancer – Rena R. Jones
Maternal serum concentrations of persistent organic pollutants and childhood leukemia among offspring in the Finnish Maternity Cohort – Mary H Ward

11:30 – 13:00

Flash Oral Session 18

Prenatal Exposures and Neonatal Outcomes

Chairs: Grant Tore & Benjamin Barratt

Maternal Exposure to Submicronic Particulate Matter (PM1) and Risk of Birth Defects in Shanghai, China – Cheng Li
Association of Preconception Air Pollution Exposure with Growth Trajectory in Children – Zhanghua Chen
Pesticide exposure during pregnancy and risk of early onset asthma and wheeze in the offspring – Torben Sigsgaard
Prenatal exposure to phenols and fetal growth across pregnancy – Paige Bommarito
Gestational phthalate exposure and mitochondrial DNA copy number – Tessa R. Bloomquist
Association of stillbirths and preterm birth with wildfires in Sydney, Australia between 2010 and 2020 – Tanya Singh
Prenatal Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Oxidative Stress: Evidence from the LIFECODES Study – Ram Siwakoti
Prenatal urinary mycoestrogen exposure and birthweight in the TIDES pregnancy cohort – Zorimar Rivera Núñez
Agricultural Pesticide Exposures During Preconception and Pregnancy and Associations With Apgar Scores – Audrey R. Yang

13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00

Flash Oral Session 21

Health Impacts of PFAS Exposure

Chairs: Cassandra Clark & Jose Suarez

Blood lipid levels and exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), phthalates and DINCH in Slovak adolescents – Lucia Fabelova
Gestational per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance mixtures in association with birth size and postnatal growth: The New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study – Megan Romano
Associations Between PFAS and Longitudinal Changes in Insulin Sensitivity in Adolescents – Elizabeth Costello
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water and mortality across the United States counties – Karen Stephanie Valladares
Exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and inflammatory bowel disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Celina Nicole Phillipson
Association of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances with Bilirubin during Pregnancy – Kaitlin R Taibl
Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances are Associated with the Composition of Human Milk – Nathan Young
Exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and health outcomes among a high exposure-risk population – Kathryn Crawford

16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
16:30 – 17:30

SNRN Session 1

Transitioning from PhD to Postdoc

Moderators: Maria Luisa Medina Pizzali, Jaime Reyes Sánchez

Speakers: Rafael Buralli, Nicolas Borchers Arriagada, Charlie Roscoe

17:30 – 19:00

Flash Oral Session 26
Advances in exposure assessment methods

Chairs: Julia Anglen Bauer & Aaron James Specht

Deciduous teeth from the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study: Early life environmental and dietary predictors of dentin elements – Julia Anglen Bauer
Co-occurrence of public safety power shutoffs and ambient heat in California, USA – Kate Burrows
Residential proximity to sugarcane fields and kidney function among Nicaraguan youth – Samantha M Hall
Two Tools for Including the Indoor Environment in Environmental Epidemiological Evaluations – Carl Grimes
Multi-toxicant measurements of dried blood spots using x-ray fluorescence – Aaron James Specht
Arsenic Exposure Assessment: Method Development and Application in Rural Populations – Valery Bühl
Evaluation of Pesticide Exposure Assessment Strategies in Agriculture Adjacent Communities – Grant Erlandson
Health Risk Assessment in Children Occupationally and Para-Occupationally Exposed to Benzene Using a Reverse-Translation PBPK Model – Kristal Regina Pech

20:00 – 23:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
09:30 – 10:00COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
10:00 – 11:30

Flash Oral Session 15

Water pollution: modern challenges

Chairs: Citlalli Osorio & Maya Spaur

River plasmidome diversity increases with urban associated pollution in the Virilla River in Costa Rica – Kenia Barrantes Jiménez
Human Oral Exposure to Nano- and Microplastics and Plastic Additives in Barcelona, Spain: a series of single-case studies – Emma Calikanzaros
Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) via water contamination and risk of childhood cancers in California, 2000-2015 – Natalie Rose Binczewski
Overview of systematic reviews and exposure-response functions on nitrate in drinking water and colorectal cancer – Jörg Schullehner
Associations between urinary perchlorate and thyroid health outcomes in Yuma County, Arizona – Jenna K. Honan
Per and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Concentrations in Serum and Drinking Water in Pregnant Women from the Greater Cincinnati HOME Study – Shelley Ehrlich
Prevalence and determinants for antimicrobial resistance in drinking water in rural Cajamarca, Peru, analysis of a one-year home-based intervention – Maria Luisa Medina Pizzali
Risk Perceptions and Behaviours of Beachgoers toward Recreational Water Quality in Canada: A Qualitative Study – Binyam Negussie Desta
Assessing Drought Impacts on Water Resources and Metal Exposure in a Rural Community: A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach – Matthew O’Gribble

11:30 – 13:00

Flash Oral Session 19

Advanced methods for environmental epidemiology

Chairs: Anke Huels & Sindana Ilango

Enhancement of low-resolution MRI contrast using super resolution for environmental neuroepidemiology – Jasmine D Cakmak
Community Mini-Grants Related to Social Determinants of Health Affected by COVID-19 in Puerto Rico – Ana C Guzzi Vasques
Examining Energy Insecurity in New York City Through StreetTalk: A Novel Street Intercept Interview Method for Rapid Social Media Dissemination – Nadav L Sprague
International Research Collaboration Challenges in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial – Managing Ethical, Community, and Logistical Considerations – Shirin Jabbarzadeh
Georeferenced community information system: a planning and research tool for economic, social, cultural and environmental determinants of health in Ecuador. – Jose Suarez Torres
The impact of recall bias on the association between talc and ovarian cancer in case-control studies – Denali N Boon
Maximising research in environmental epidemiology using large cohorts such as UK Biobank – opportunities and pitfalls – Anna Hansell
Evolution and characteristics of studies estimating attributable mortality to second-hand smoke: a systematic review – Leonor Varela

13:00 – 14:30LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00

Flash Oral Session 22

Characterization of internal and external exposome

Chairs: Nicholas B Defelice & Rafaela Soares Senra Da Costa

An environment-wide association study of chemical exposures and all-cause mortality in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2018 – Erika Walker
Characterizing the heat stress and air pollution exposome to assess acute kidney injury in NYC runners – Nicholas B Defelice
Associations between multiple environmental exposures and sleep duration and quality in the Nurses’ Health Study 3 – Cindy R. Hu
Metallomic insights into interstitial lung disease pathogenesis – Young Mi Go
New insights about genetic polymorphisms associated with metal metabolism: a systematic review – Rafaela Soares Senra Da Costa
Defining a long COVID ‘expotype’ within the P4O2 COVID-19 study – Judith Holtjer
Exploratory Untargeted Metabolomics Analysis Reveals Differences in Metabolite Profiles Related to E-cigarette Exposure During Pregnancy in the NYU CHES Cohort – Haleigh Cavalier
Mapping the maternal metabolome and internal exposome to identify biomarkers of preterm and early term birth among African Americans – Youran Tan
The influence of legally prescribed and local pharmacy supplied opioids on small area suicide rates. – Douglas S Tharp

16:00 – 16:30COFFEE BREAK & POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION / FREE POSTER VIEWING
16:30 – 17:30

Flash Oral Session 23

Environmental Noise and Health

Chairs: Yu Chen & Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou

Environmental noise exposure effect on cortisol levels in children from seven European birth cohorts: preliminary results – Ane Arregi
Transportation noise and cognitive functioning among older adults in the Chicago Health and Aging Project – Stephanie T Grady
Measurement and analysis of intra-urban environmental noise in Melbourne, Australia – Rachel Tham
Associations of road traffic noise, air pollutants and temperature with the prevalence of mental disorders: the Taiwan biobank-based study – Ta Yuan Chang
Effects of combined exposure to railway vibration and noise on severe annoyance – Jurriaan Hoekstra

17:30 – 19:00

Flash Oral Session 27

Health impact of metal exposures

Chairs: Ana Navas-Acien & Wending Li

The association of blood lead with cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality in the Strong Heart Study – Wil Lieberman Cribbin
Lead exposures and case surveillance of children in England 2021-2023 – Neelam Iqbal
Circulating metals, leukocyte miRNAs and cardiovascular effects: Potential role of inflammatory and immune-related pathways – Wending Li
Prenatal exposure to metals and infant growth trajectories in a rural U.S. pregnancy cohort – Caitlin G Howe
Halved mortality after reducing arsenic exposure in Bangladesh: a prospective cohort study with more than 20 years of follow-up – Yu Chen
Prenatal exposure to metals and neurodevelopment outcomes in 1-year-old children living in an urban area – PIPA Project Brazil – Monica Seefelder De Assis Araujo
Racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and acculturation disparities in exposure to contaminant metals among US adults – Molly E Schwalb
Analyzing the Joint Association of Early-life Ambient Cadmium and Elevated Blood Lead on Children’s Test Scores Using Linked Data – Jeanette A Stingone
Lead and Cancer Mortality among American Indian Populations: A Prospective Cohort Study – Harpriya Kaur

20:00 – 23:00CONFERENCE DINNER

06:00 – 07:30

Virtual Only

Virtual Session
Asia / Pacific 1: Global environmental exposures and health impacts

Chairs: Yohannes Tefera Damtew & Priya Dutta

A global effort to assess human exposure to daily landscape fire air pollution over two decades – Rongbin Xu
Early Cardiovascular Effects of Indoor Environmental Quality During Sleep in Children: Insights from a Small Cohort Study in Taiwan – Nai Tzu Chen
Ignorance Production in Fukushima: An Critical Review of Analysis of Thyroid Cancers in Fukushima – Yutaka Hamaoka
Enhancing Epidermal Defense Against Air Pollution with Protective Cosmetics for residents in Taipei – Fu Yu Chan
Exposure to herbicide mixtures and hypertensive disorders: a nested case-control study in rural China – Yilin Zhou
Associations between heat waves and chronic kidney disease: The modifying role of land cover and urban-rural differences – Wanzhou Wang
Compound heatwave and ozone pollution adaptation has higher health benefits than single-event adaptation under future climate change scenarios – Tiantian Li
The impact of ambient temperature on Enteric infections in the context of climate change: A Systematic review and meta-analysis – Yohannes Tefera Damtew
Enviromental factors and elderly type 2 diabetes mortality: A spatiotemporal analysis in Shandong, China – Wenxiu Zheng

08:00 – 08:45 
08:45 – 09:30 
09:30 – 10:00COFFEE BREAK

10:00 – 11:30

Virtual Only

Virtual Session
Europe/Africa 2: Environmental exposures and biological impacts

Chairs: TBA & Ahmed Al-Dealimy

Sex-specific associations of traffic noise with adipose tissue traits and hepatic health – Fiona Niedermayer
Within- and between-day variability and reproducibility of urinary glycol ethers metabolites in pregnant women – Cecile Chevrier
Glyphosate exposure, muscular health and functional limitations in middle-aged and older adults. – Esther García Esquinas
An operational framework for real-time forecast of temperature-related excess mortality at small-area level – Antonio Gasparrini
Temperature-related mortality: evidence from 303 large cities of Russia – Natalia Shartova
Hair-derived exposome exploration of cardiometabolic health: piloting a Bayesian multi-trait variable selection approach – Rin Wada
High dimensional biology to assess the effects of the exposure to heavy metals, plasticizers and pesticides on child neurodevelopment – Nafsika Papaioannou

11:30 – 13:00 
13:00 – 14:30LUNCH BREAK

14:30 – 16:00

Virtual Only

Virtual Session
North & Latin America 3: Chemical exposures and health outcomes

Chairs: Dazhe Chen & Eva  Marques

Associations of Cord Blood Concentrations of Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Benzophenones with Autistic Traits at Age Seven in Singaporean Children- Nathan J. Cohen
Prenatal Exposure to Chemical Mixtures and Metabolic Syndrome Risk in European Children – Nuria Güil Oumrait
Prenatal exposure to mixtures of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in association with obesity in childhood and adolescence – Nuria Güil Oumrait
Pesticide use and inflammatory bowel disease in licensed pesticide applicators and spouses in the Agricultural Health Study – Dazhe Chen
Quantitative measures of recent and lifetime agricultural pesticide use are associated with increased pesticide concentrations in house dust – Shuai Xie
Review of scientific evidence presented at landmark US federal court trial on risk of developmental neurotoxicity from artificially fluoridated water – Chris Neurath
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, Perceived Stress, and Birthweight among Reproductive-aged Black Women from Detroit, MI – Samantha Schildroth

 

16:00 – 16:30COFFEE BREAK

17:30 – 19:00

Virtual Only

Virtual Session
North & Latin America 4: Environmental justice and community health

Chairs: TBA &Samendra Sherchan

A community-engaged approach to assess arsenic exposure in private well users in rural communities: The South Texas Arsenic Research Project – Taehyun Roh
From redlining to reproduction: Examining the influence of historical neighborhood disinvestment on fertility – Sharonda M. Lovett
Neighborhood socioeconomic status and fertility in the Black Women’s Health Study – Amelia Kent WesselinAssessing Risk Levels of Lead Presence in Residential Soils: A Case Study in Lima, Peru – Eda Palacios

Who tests for lead and why? A 10-year analysis of blood lead screening & follow-up in a US healthcare system – Aaron Reuben
Levels risk assessment of lead exposure in La Oroya City, Peru – Maria Teresa Cuyubamba