Health impacts of air pollution
Most prominently, MAG contributed to the international assessment of the Global Burden of Disease, a comparative assessment of all risk factors related to human health, organized by the World Health Organization and Harvard University and involving more than 100 scientific institutions. Its findings, published in The Lancet in early 2013, highlight indoor pollution as the fourth most important factor for premature mortality, and outdoor pollution as the eighth (Lim et al., 2012).
MAG contributed to the global assessment on exposure to fine particulate matter and ozone (Brauer et al., 2012; Anderson et al., 2012), integrating results from chemical transport modeling and from remote sensing. The publication in Environmental Science and Technology was named as the best science paper by the journal editors in 2013.