Francesca Dominici has 20 people in her lab at the school of public health, analyzing massive datasets, including satellite images, to determine how heat, air pollution and other changes in the ...

California has some of the strongest regulations in the nation to protect farmworkers from wildfire smoke. It's one of only three states, along with Oregon and Washington, that require employers ...

According to Francesca Dominici from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the long-term effects are unclear.

Dominici and her colleagues illustrated the impact with a specific example: Manhattan, the current epicenter of the pandemic, where PM2.5 averages range as high as 11 micrograms per cubic meter ...

Since 2018, carbon emissions from data centers in the US have tripled. For the 12 months ending August 2024, data centers were responsible for 105 million metric tons of CO 2, accounting for 2.18% ...

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Francesca Dominici aims to help fix that. A professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, Dominici is a leader in linking PM2.5 pollution to the risk of premature death ...

“It is a substantial change, a meaningful change. It’s definitely a victory for public health,” said Francesca Dominici, a data scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

This year, public health experts, including a coalition from Boston, will get a chance to make their case too, that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels — namely oil, gas, and coal ...

“There are a substantial number of deaths prevented the year after one of the scrubbers is installed because the air is substantially cleaner,” said co-author Francesca Dominici, a professor ...

About 85% of the total 460,000 coal plant-related deaths occurred between 1999 and 2007, an average of more than 43,000 deaths per year. The death toll declined drastically as plants closed or ...

“The reality is we don’t have an accurate, data-driven system,” said Francesca Dominici, a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.