Kayleigh Keller, PhD

Previous randomized controlled trials on ways to reduce household air pollution have shown mixed results when it comes to improving health, especially for birth and child health outcomes. These mixed findings may be due to a variety of factors, including differences in how well people follow the interventions, whether the interventions reduce pollution enough to improve health, and how well the results apply to other settings. This study will use epidemiological and statistical methods to better understand how compliance and factors like location and population characteristics affect how well these interventions work. The goal is to clarify their impact on birth and pediatric health in different contexts.

Update: We are studying the causal effects of household air pollution improvements on early life health outcomes. Using advanced epidemiological and statistical methods, we are estimating the health impacts of a liquified petroleum gas (LPG) intervention that replaces stoves that burn wood and other biomass material. We have completed our first set of analyses and are preparing a manuscript for publication to share those results. Ongoing work will use more complex methods for estimating effects by level of LPG stove usage and how results can be translated across study contexts.