Patrick L. Kinney, Sc.D., Associate Professor of Public Health (Environmental Health Sciences)

Dr. Kinney carries out epidemiologic research addressing the respiratory health impacts of air pollution. His current interests include:

1 Understanding the role(s) of indoor air pollutants as triggers of asthma, and developing interventions to reduce exposures to indoor residential allergens among asthmatic children in the underprivileged neighborhoods of New York City.

2 Characterizing outdoor, indoor, and personal concentrations of a variety of toxic air pollutants to which urban residents are exposed. Pollutants of interests include respirable particles, metals, volatile organic compounds, and aldehydes.

3 Documenting the health impacts of diesel vehicle emissions in NYC.

4 Investigating the respiratory effects of long-term (i.e., 18-year) ozone and particle exposures in a cohort of Yale College freshmen in New Haven, Connecticut.

5 Applying spatial methods, including Geographic Information Systems, to the analysis of environmental exposure and health effects data.

6 Studying the acute relationship between measures of daily population mortality and morbidity, on one hand, and daily air pollution concentrations, on the other, during the years 1975 through 1995 in the Los Angeles Basin, a time of decreasing ambient concentrations.

7 Assessing exposures and health impacts of air pollution at the cellular and molecular level using human biological samples derived from epidemiology studies.

Kinney, PL, Ito, K and Thurston, GD: A sensitivity analysis of mortality/PM<+'>10<-'> associations in Los Angeles. Inhal. Toxico. 7:59-69(1995).

Kinney, PL, Thurston, GD and Raizenne, M: The effects of ambient ozone on lung function in children: a re-analysis of six summer camp studies. Environ. Health Perspect. 104:170-174(1996).

Kinney, PL, Nilsen, DM, Lippmann, M, Brescia, M, Gordon, T, McGovern, T, El Fawal, H, Devlin, RB and Rom, WN: Biomarkers of lung inflammation in recreational joggers exposed to ozone. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 154:1430-1435(1996).