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Hanna Boogaard

Hanna Boogaard

Hanna Boogaard has more than 15 years of experience in air pollution epidemiology. She is a Consultant Principal Scientist at the Health Effects Institute (HEI) in Boston, MA, an independent research organization with balanced funding from the US Environmental Protection Agency and motor vehicle industry. She received a PhD in 2012 in air pollution epidemiology from Utrecht University, Netherlands. She studied health effects of traffic‐related air pollution, and the effectiveness of traffic policy measures. At HEI, she is involved in developing, overseeing, and reviewing studies investigating the health effects of air pollution and studies evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to improve air quality and public health. She holds a MSc in Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences (2005) from Maastricht University, Netherlands. She has been advisor of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, World Health Organization, Health Canada, and other national and international bodies. She is associate editor for the journal Environment International. She is co‐chair of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Europe Chapter.