[Stoves] FW: Reminder: Cookstoves webinar on August 22 - What are we learning from health studies of clean cooking interventions?

Mon Aug 14 16:48:28 CDT 2017

Here's an opportunity to discuss health effects, testing and metrics for
clean cook stoves with those who are doing the research.   

From: Moderator, Cookstoves/Indoor Air
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Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 2:35 PM
To: Moderator, Cookstoves/Indoor Air <CookStovesandIndoorAir at winrock.org>

Winrock & U.S. EPA Cook Stoves & Indoor Air

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What are we learning from health studies of clean cooking interventions?

August 22, 2017
   10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

While there are multiple social, economic and environmental benefits that
can be gained by switching from traditional biomass stoves and fuels to
cleaner and more efficient alternatives, many cooking interventions are
motivated by a desire to reduce health risks for cooks and their families.
However, studies have shown that improvements in health outcomes can be
difficult to achieve, especially for biomass stoves.  

Come hear about three recent/ongoing health studies, including the goals of
the studies, lessons learned and key findings. These include randomized
control trials involving ethanol in Nigeria, the (biomass-based) Cooking and
Pneumonia Study (CAPS <http://www.capstudy.org/> ) in Malawi, and the
Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN
<http://www.hapintrial.org/> ) Trial with LPG in India, Rwanda, Peru, and
Guatemala.

Are you interested in finding out how health studies of clean fuel
interventions can inform biomass stove research and interventions? Attend
this webinar to hear more about each of these studies, what we have learned
from them so far, and the knowledge gaps we hope to fill going forward.

Webinar participation is free. For the web portion, a high-speed internet
connection is required. Please note that the webinar technology allows
attendees to listen to audio through their computer or by phone.  Additional
log-in information will be provided upon registration.  

For more information on this webinar, please contact:
<mailto:CookStovesandIndoorAir at winrock.org>
CookStovesandIndoorAir at winrock.org

 <https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8233699806104237315> Register
today for the August 22nd Webinar!

Date: August 22, 2017  

Time: 14:00 - 15:30 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)/Greenwich Mean Time
(GMT), which is 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

About the speakers:

Dr. Deborah Havens

Dr. Deborah Havens was Trial Coordinator and Consultant for the Cooking and
Pneumonia Study (CAPS) in Malawi.  She has worked on numerous environmental
remediation projects and has a current research focus of exposure
assessments and health impacts of household air pollution.  She trained in
Internal Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine with an MPH
from the University of Washington, DTM&H from the Liverpool School of
Tropical Medicine and a PhD in progress through the University of Liverpool.

Dr. Michael Johnson

Dr. Michael Johnson is a Senior Scientist at Berkeley Air Monitoring Group
and is coordinating the exposure assessment for the Household Air Pollution
Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial with LPG in India, Rwanda, Peru, and
Guatemala. He works mainly on field based assessments of household energy
projects, including studies on stove performance and usage, indoor air
quality, personal exposure, and health impacts. His peer review publications
include articles on development of monitoring instrumentation,
climate-forcing and health-damaging pollutant emissions, stove   performance
testing, and others. Michael is a co-author of the WHO Indoor Air Quality
Guidelines for Household Fuel Combustion and is heavily involved in the
development of international standards for cookstoves. Michael has a Ph.D.
in Environmental Health, Science, & Policy from the University of
California, Irvine, and a B.A. in Physics from Colorado College.  

Dr. Sola Olopade

Dr. Sola Olopade is Professor of Medicine in the Department of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine at the University of Chicago.  His research addresses
the impact of environmental and genetic factors on asthma and evaluates the
extent, impact and preventive strategies for mitigating the health effects
of exposure of women and children to household air pollution from biomass in
rural and urban settings in vulnerable populations. He recently completed
the first randomized controlled intervention investigating the impact of
transitioning from kerosene and firewood to ethanol on pregnancy outcome in
Nigerian women. He is a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians
(FCCP) and the American College of Physicians (FACP) and served as American
College of Chest Physicians Governor for the State of Illinois from
2006-2010.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and Winrock
International have been engaged in the household energy field for many
years, including through coordination of the Partnership for Clean Indoor
Air (PCIA) and its 590 Partners working in 117 countries from 2002-2012.
Since the integration of PCIA and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
in 2012, Winrock and the U.S. EPA have continued working to increase the
exchange of technical information among public and private organizations
working in the global household energy and health sectors through local
capacity building, targeted technical assistance and field studies and
global knowledge sharing. The goal of these activities is to promote
effective approaches that lead to increased use of clean, reliable,
affordable, efficient, and safe home cooking and heating practices.

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