Profile
Dr Haneen KHREIS
Co-Principal Investigator
Dr Haneen Khreis is a cross-disciplinary researcher studying the health impacts of transport planning and policy with a special interest in transport-related air pollution. She is trained in transport planning and engineering, vehicle emissions modelling, air quality monitoring and modelling, systematic reviews, health impact and burden of disease assessments. She has expertise in policy options generation and the science-policy link.
Dr Khreis works extensively with air pollution and incident asthma, doing epidemiological, burden of disease assessment and monetisation studies in the UK, Europe, and the USA. She has received funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the European Commission, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Nature Conservancy and the UK National Institute for Health Research. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and technical reports, with a large media impact. She edited three books on integrating human health into planning, transport and health, and traffic-related air pollution and health. She also recently developed a cross-disciplinary course titled ‘Traffic-Related Air Pollution: Emissions, Human Exposures, and Health’ adapted at Johns Hopkins,
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Research Interest
Dr Khreis studies the linkages between transport planning and policy, environmental exposures, and human health. She specialises in air pollution as one environmental exposure on the pathway between transportation and health and have experience in other exposures such as transport noise, and green space. She has conducted multiple burden of disease and health impact assessments of air pollution and various health endpoints including premature mortality and childhood asthma, and adulthood asthma and COPD. She also has an interest and experience in aetiological analysis of air and noise pollution and health effects.
Key Publications
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H. Khreis, C. Kelly, J. Tate, R. Parslow, K. Lucas and M. Nieuwenhuijsen, “Exposure to traffic-related air pollution and risk of development of childhood asthma: A systematic review and meta-analysis,” Environment International, vol. 100, pp. 1–31, 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2016.11.012.
H. Khreis, K. de Hoogh and M. J. Nieuwenhuijsen, “Full-chain health impact assessment of traffic-related air pollution and childhood asthma,” Environment International, vol. 114, pp. 365–375, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2018.03.008.
S. Sohrabi and H. Khreis, “Burden of disease from transportation noise and motor vehicle crashes: Analysis of data from Houston, Texas,” Environment International, vol. 136, p. 105 520, 2020. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.105520.
A. Glazener et al., “Fourteen pathways between urban transportation and health: A conceptual model and literature review,” Journal of Transport & Health, vol. 21, p. 101 070, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2021.101070.
H. Khreis, J. Johnson, K. Jack, B. Dadashova and E. S. Park, “Evaluating the performance of low-cost air quality monitors in Dallas, Texas,” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 3, p. 1647, 2022. doi:
10.3390/ijerph19031647.