Edward Lawrence Avol
ProfessorÂ
Preventive Medicine
University of Southern California
United States of America
Biography
Ed Avol is Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine, with expertise in exposure assessment and acute/chronic respiratory and cardiovascular effects of airborne pollutants in populations at risk (including children, athletes, and subjects with compromised lung function). He was the Deputy Director of the Children's Health Study and is a key investigator in multiple ongoing investigations of the effects of environmental exposures on human health. He is the co-Director of the Exposure Assessment and GIS Facility Core in the NIEHS-supported Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center, co-Director of the Exposure Assessment and Modeling Core in the NIEHS/EPA-supported Children's Environmental Health Center, and is the principal investigator on several NIH and regionally funded studies to assess the association of air pollution with children?s respiratory and cardiovascular health. Professor Avol is also actively involved in the centers’ community outreach efforts, particularly with regard to the health and air quality impacts of the Los Angeles/Long Beach Port expansions.
Research Interest
acute/chronic respiratory and cardiovascular effects of airborne pollutants
Publications
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Spalt EW, Curl CL, Allen RW, Cohen M, Adar SD, Stukovsky KH. Time-location patterns of a diverse population of older adults: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air). Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology. 2016 Jun;26(4):349.
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Tam E, Miike R, Labrenz S, Sutton AJ, Elias T, Davis J, Chen YL, Tantisira K, Dockery D, Avol E. Volcanic air pollution over the Island of Hawai'i: Emissions, dispersal, and composition. Association with respiratory symptoms and lung function in Hawai'i Island school children. Environment international. 2016 Aug 31;92:543-52.
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Breton CV, Yao J, Millstein J, Gao L, Siegmund KD, Mack W, Whitfield-Maxwell L, Lurmann F, Hodis H. Prenatal air pollution exposures, DNA methyl transferase genotypes, and associations with newborn LINE1 and Alu methylation and childhood blood pressure and carotid intima-media thickness in the Children’s Health Study. Environmental health perspectives. 2016 Dec;124(12):1905.
