A special lecture in the YSPH Environmental Health Sciences Seminar Series. "Ambient Particle Radioactive Exposure Assessment and Health Effects"
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2019, at 12 noon, at 60 College Street, Room 101
At Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Petros Koutrakis focuses on the development of human exposure-measurement techniques and the investigation of sources, transport, and the fate of air pollutants. He will discuss how, while radon gas and its decay products are known for their lung cancer risk, there also is evidence associating particle radioactivity with blood pressure, lung function, and inflammatory markers. He also will present methods to assess indoor levels of particle radioactivity and to measure radon decay products in human tissues.