Jesse Berman

May 13, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jesse Berman

A cloud of smoke from Canadian wildfires suddenly blanketed Minnesota on Sunday evening, marring what had otherwise been a sun-drenched weekend and leaving some residents wondering whether the misery of last summer was starting all over again. A thick haze of smoke had repeatedly hung over cities in the Midwest and on the East Coast throughout the summer last year, leaving some communities breathing air so polluted that schools were closed and sporting events canceled.

Mar 21, 2024 | twin-cities.umn.edu | Jesse Berman

In early March, the National Weather Service issued the first Red Flag Warning of the year for counties in southeastern Minnesota. In addition, recently released seasonal climate data predict this spring and summer to be hotter and more humid than average in most of the U.S. and Canada. As the wildfire season stretches longer each year and extreme temperatures become more frequent, there may be implications for long-term health and worsening air pollution.

Mar 1, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Jesse Berman |Yiqun Ma |Federica Nobile |Anne Marb

The link between air pollution exposure and increased mortality and morbidity is firmly supported by a broad evidence base. The 2015 Global Burden of Diseases Study, a 195-country investigation, found fine particulate matter (ie, particles with an aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 μm [PM2.5]) to be the fifth ranking worldwide mortality risk factor, with an attributed 4.2 million premature deaths.1 Yet these impacts are not equally distributed.

Sep 19, 2023 | paperity.org | Camille Robichaux |Chris Wendt |Jesse Berman |Jordan Aron

International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Jul 2023 Describing the associations between individual demographic, socioeconomic status, and all-cause mortality. This is a preview of a remote PDF: https://www.dovepress.com/getfile.php?fileID=91444 Camille Robichaux, Jordan Aron, Chris H Wendt, Jesse D Berman, Austin Rau, Ann Bangerter, R Adams Dudley, Arianne K Baldomero.

Jun 29, 2023 | twin-cities.umn.edu | Jesse Berman