Air Pollution Exposures in Early Life and Brain Development in Children

This project will establish a prospective mother-infant cohort for studies on neurotoxicant exposures and child neurodevelopmental outcomes, and will develop capacity building to understand early life air pollution sources (using mobile monitoring and focusing on ultrafine particulate matter) and impacts on child healthy neurodevelopment in Nairobi. The project will hold annual workshops with governmental stakeholders in Kenya to strengthen research to policy linkages. UW collaborators are based at the UW Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS). Collaborating institutions include the University of Nairobi and Aga Kahn University. Funding is provided by the NIH and NIEHS.