Wenzhong Huang

Projected Global Mortality and Economic Burden from Wildfire Smoke under Climate Change

Abstract Climate change is intensifying the frequency and severity of wildfires, amplifying landscape fire-sourced smoke (LFS), and its global health effects. However, future global LFS-attributable deaths and their associated attributable death costs remain poorly quantified. We...

Landscape Fire-Sourced PM2.5 and Cause-Specific Renal Hospitalizations: A Multicountry Two-Stage Time-Series Analysis of 12.5 Million Admissions

Abstract Landscape fire-sourced PM2.5 (LFS PM2.5) is increasingly recognized as an important air pollutant, but its short-term contribution to renal hospitalizations remains unclear. Here, we assessed the associations between LFS PM2.5 and renal hospitalizations across 1020 locat...