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George Downward

Assistant Professor

Biography

Human activities have a profound and lasting impact on our environment. These changes in turn, come back to impact our own health and well-being - often unfairly as we see again and again those who pollute the least suffering the worst of our changing environment.
My work involves examining, and teaching, how our activities lead to these changes in the environment and the impact these changes have upon us as a global community.

Recent publications

Climate, Air Quality and Their Contribution to Cardiovascular Disease Morbidity and Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Stephaney Gyaase, Solomon Nyame, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Kwaku Poku Asante, George S Downward
Global Heart, 2025, vol. 20
Collective knowledge exchange through regional hubs Camilla Alay Llamas, Renzo Guinto, Julia Addison, Nazmul Alam, Hannah Brown Amoakoh, Vicente Artola Arita, Noa Kolpa, Juliette Mattijsen, Ying Zhang, George S. Downward, Joyce L. Browne
Tropical Medicine and International Health, 2024, vol. 29, p.849-855
Expanded PAH analysis of household air pollution in a rural region of China with high lung cancer incidence Yongliang Zhang, Kees Meliefste, Wei Hu, Lützen Portengen, Nathaniel Rothman, Boris Reiss, Jihua Li, Jun Xu, Baofu Ning, Dingyu Liu, Flemming R. Cassee, Jason Y.Y. Wong, Roel Vermeulen, Qing Lan, George S. Downward
Environmental Pollution, 2024, vol. 361
Evaluation of risk prediction models to select lung cancer screening participants in Europe Xiaoshuang Feng, Patrick Goodley, Karine Alcala, Florence Guida, Rudolf Kaaks, Roel Vermeulen, George S Downward, Catalina Bonet, Sandra M Colorado-Yohar, Demetrius Albanes, Stephanie J Weinstein, Marcel Goldberg, Marie Zins, Caroline Relton, Arnulf Langhammer, Anne Heidi Skogholt, Mattias Johansson, Hilary A Robbins
The Lancet Digital Health, 2024, vol. 6, p.e614-e624
Hemoglobin and Its Relationship with Fatigue in Long-COVID Patients Three to Six Months after SARS-CoV-2 Infection Somayeh Bazdar, Lizan D. Bloemsma, Nadia Baalbaki, Jelle M. Blankestijn, Merel E.B. Cornelissen, Rosanne J.H.C.G. Beijers, Brigitte M. Sondermeijer, Yolanda van Wijck, George S. Downward, Anke H. Maitland-van der Zee,
Biomedicines, 2024, vol. 12
Physiological Response to the COVID-19 Vaccine Andjela Markovic, Vladimir Kovacevic, Timo B. Brakenhoff, Duco Veen, Paul Klaver, Marianna Mitratza, George S. Downward, Diederick E. Grobbee, Maureen Cronin, Brianna M. Goodale,
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024, vol. 26