Our colleagues from Children’s Health & Environment Program (CHEP) and the LSU Superfund Research Program recently received the prestigious NHMRC Ideas Grant for their project on understanding the health effects from bushfire smoke.

The project, “Providing Evidence to Guide Public Health Messages during Bushfire Smoke Events,” focuses on understanding the dangerous health effects of smoke from bushfires. Major bushfire/wildfire events are increasing worldwide, and both prescribed burning and wildfires produce toxic smoke that is a major health threat to people in surrounding areas.

Read all about it in the article here: https://www.lsu.edu/srp/news/2024/04-ideas-grant.php