HAPIN Trial

HAPIN Publications

Primary Outcomes

  • Checkley, William, Lisa M. Thompson, Sheela S. Sinharoy, Shakir Hossen, Lawrence H. Moulton, Howard H. Chang, Lance Waller, Kyle Steenland, Ghislaine Rosa, Alexie Mukeshimana, Florien Ndagijimana, John P. McCracken, Anaité Díaz-Artiga, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Sarada S. Garg, Gurusamy Thangavel, Vigneswari Aravindalochanan, Stella M. Hartinger, Marilú Chiang, Miles A. Kirby, Aris T. Papageorghiou, Usha Ramakrishnan, Kendra N. Williams, Laura Nicolaou, Michael Johnson, Ajay Pillarisetti, Joshua Rosenthal, Lindsay J. Underhill, Jiantong Wang, Shirin Jabbarzadeh, Yunyun Chen, Victor G. Dávila-Román, Luke P. Naeher, Eric D. McCollum, Jennifer L. Peel, and Thomas F. Clasen. 2024. “Effects of Cooking with Liquefied Petroleum Gas or Biomass on Stunting in Infants.” New England Journal of Medicine 390 (1): 44–54. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2302687.
    • Summary: An intervention strategy starting in pregnancy and aimed at mitigating household air pollution by replacing biomass fuel with liquefied petroleum gas for cooking did not reduce the risk of stunting in infants.
  • McCollum, Eric D., John P. McCracken, Miles A. Kirby, Laura M. Grajeda, Shakir Hossen, Lawrence H. Moulton, Suzanne M. Simkovich, Dina Goodman-Palmer, Ghislaine Rosa, Alexie Mukeshimana, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Gurusamy Thangavel, Sarada S. Garg, Adly Castañaza, Lisa M. Thompson, Anaite Diaz-Artiga, Aris T. Papageorghiou, Victor G. Davila-Roman, Lindsay J. Underhill, Stella M. Hartinger, Kendra N. Williams, Laura Nicolaou, Howard H. Chang, Amy E. Lovvorn, Joshua P. Rosenthal, Ajay Pillarisetti, Wenlu Ye, Luke P. Naeher, Michael A. Johnson, Lance A. Waller, Shirin Jabbarzadeh, Jiantong Wang, Yunyun Chen, Kyle Steenland, Thomas F. Clasen, Jennifer L. Peel, and William Checkley. 2024. “Liquefied Petroleum Gas or Biomass Cooking and Severe Infant Pneumonia.” New England Journal of Medicine 390 (1): 32–43. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2305681.
    • Summary: The incidence of severe pneumonia among infants did not differ significantly between those whose mothers were assigned to cook with LPG stoves and fuel and those whose mothers were assigned to continue cooking with biomass stoves. 
  • Clasen, Thomas F., Howard H. Chang, Lisa M. Thompson, Miles A. Kirby, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Anaité Díaz-Artiga, John P. McCracken, Ghislaine Rosa, Kyle Steenland, Ashley Younger, Vigneswari Aravindalochanan, Dana B. Barr, Adly Castañaza, Yunyun Chen, Marilú Chiang, Maggie L. Clark, Sarada Garg, Stella Hartinger, Shirin Jabbarzadeh, Michael A. Johnson, Dong-Yun Kim, Amy E. Lovvorn, Eric D. McCollum, Libny Monroy, Lawrence H. Moulton, Alexie Mukeshimana, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Luke P. Naeher, Florien Ndagijimana, Aris Papageorghiou, Ricardo Piedrahita, Ajay Pillarisetti, Naveen Puttaswamy, Ashlinn Quinn, Usha Ramakrishnan, Sankar Sambandam, Sheela S. Sinharoy, Gurusamy Thangavel, Lindsay J. Underhill, Lance A. Waller, Jiantong Wang, Kendra N. Williams, Joshua P. Rosenthal, William Checkley, and Jennifer L. Peel. 2022. “Liquefied Petroleum Gas or Biomass for Cooking and Effects on Birth Weight.” New England Journal of Medicine, October, doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2206734.
    • Summary: The birth weight of infants did not differ significantly between those born to women who used LPG cookstoves and those born to women who used biomass cookstoves.
  • Johnson, Michael, Ajay Pillarisetti, Ricardo Piedrahita, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Jennifer L. Peel, Kyle Steenland, Lindsay J. Underhill, Ghislaine Rosa, Miles A. Kirby, Díaz-Artiga Anaité D, John McCracken, Maggie L. Clark, Lance Waller, Howard H. Chang, Jiantong Wang, Ephrem Dusabimana, Florien Ndagijimana, Sankar Sambandam, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Katherine A. Kearns, Devan Campbell, Jacob Kremer, Joshua P. Rosenthal, William Checkley, Thomas Clasen, Luke Naeher, and HAPIN trial investigators. 2022. “Exposure Contrasts of Pregnant Women during the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Randomized Controlled Trial.” Environmental Health Perspectives 130 (9): 097005. doi:10.1289/EHP10295.
    • Summary: Median post-randomization exposures of PM2.5 in the intervention arm were lower by 66% compared to controls. Post-intervention PM2.5 exposures in the intervention arm were at the lower end of what has been reported for LPG and other clean interventions, with 69% of PM2.5 samples falling below the WHO Annual Interim Target 1. 

Other Outcomes

2026

  • Ndikubwimana, Adolphe, William Checkley, Yunyun Chen, Thomas Clasen, Carmen Lucia Contreras, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2026. “Baseline exposure-response assessment of metals from dried blood spots and personal household air pollution concentrations among pregnant women in Rwanda: household air pollution intervention network trial.” Journal of Health & Population Nutrition, 45(26). doi: 10.1186/s41043-025-01178-6.

  • Hoyle-Gardner, Jada, Ziyin Tang, Donghai Liang, Anaite Diaz-Artiga, Ajay Pillarisetti, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2026. “Household air pollution exposure is associated with perturbations in metabolic pathways in human milk: An observational untargeted metabolomics analysis from Guatemala.” Environmental Research, 292: 123687. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2026.123687.

2025

  • Ndikubwiman, A., B.N. Young, W. Checkley, Y. Chen, T. Clasen, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2025. “Association between personal exposure to household air pollution and glycated hemoglobin among women in rural areas of Guatemala, India, Peru, and Rwanda: Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trail.” Journal of Health & Population, 13(1-4):017002. doi: 10.1289/JHP1053.

  • Patil, Sneha S., Naveen Puttaswamy, Ajay Pillarisetti, Andres Cardenas, Kyle Steenland, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2025. “Association of prenatal and early-life polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons exposure with dental caries in childhood.” Environmental Research, 282: 122021. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2025.122021.

  • Quinn, Ashlinn, Mayari Hengstermann, Anaite Diaz-Artiga, Ajay Pillarisetti, Maggie Clark, Laura Ruiz-Aguilar, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2025. “Development of personal air pollution exposure report-back materials to Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial participants in Guatemala and Rwanda: a qualitative study.” BMJ Global Health, 10: e017672. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-017672.

  • Raheel, Hina, Sheela Sinharoy, Anaite Diaz-Artiga, Sarada S. Garg, Ajay Pillarisetti, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2025. “Effects of liquefied petroleum gas stove and fuel intervention on head circumference and length at birth: A multi-country household air pollution intervention network (HAPIN) trial.” Environment International, 195: 109211. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2024.109211.

  • Hennessee, Ian, Miles A. Kirby, Xavier Misago, Jackie Mupfasoni, Jiantong Wang, Jean de Dieu Ntivuguruzwa, Florien Ndagijimana, Ghislaine Rosa, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2025. “Effects of indoor cooking with liquefied petroleum gas versus solid biomass on mosquito and fly density in households.” Scientific Reports, 15: 19578. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-03573-9.

  • McCracken, John P., Eric D. McCollum, Kyle Steenland, Laura Nicolaou, Miles A. Kirby, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2025. “Exposure to household air pollution from biomass cooking and severe pneumonia in infants.” JAMA Network Open, 8(10): e2538721. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.38721.

  • Ndikubwimana, Adolphe, William Checkley, Yunyun Chen, Thomas Clasen, Carmen Lucia Contreras, Anaite Diaz-Artiga, Ephrem Dusbimana, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2025. “Exposure-response relationship of household air pollution on body mass index among women in rural areas of Guatemala, India, Peru and Rwanda: household air pollution intervention network trial.” BMC Public Health, 25: 2163. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-23380-1.

  • Shackelford, Brandie B., Kyle Steenland, Miles A. Kirby, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Marilu Chiang, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2025. “Gestational and postnatal exposures to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and their association with acute ear infections, diarrhea, respiratory symptoms, and mortality: A longitudinal study of infants in the multicountry Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial.” Environmental Research, 285(1): 122258. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2025.122258.

  • Underhill, Lindsay J., Lisa de las Fuentes, Laura Nicolaou, Shakir Hossen, Anaite Diaz-Artiga, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2025. “Household air pollution exposure in adult women is associated with increased carotid intima-media thickness: A cross-sectional study of the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network trial.” International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 270: 114649. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2025.114649.

  • Karakwende, Patrick, William Checkley, Yunyun Chen, Maggie L. Clark, Thomas Clasen, Ephrem Dusabimana, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2025. “Predictors of personal exposure to fine particulate matter, black carbon, and carbon monoxide among pregnant women in Rwanda: Baseline data from the HAPIN trial.” Journal of Health & Pollution, 13(1-4): 017001. doi: 10.1289/JHP1049.

  • Sivalogan, Kasthuri, Aryeh D. Stein, Lisa M. Thompson, Jiantong Wang, Anaite Diaz-Artiga, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2025. “Provision of a liquified petroleum gas cookstove and fuel during pregnancy and infancy and linear growth trajectories between birth and 12 months: Evidence from the multi-center household air pollution intervention network (HAPIN) trial.” PLOS Global Public Health, 5(12): e0004831. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004831.

2024

  • Jabbarzadeh, Shirin, Lindsay M Jaacks, Amy Lovvorn, Yunyun Chen, Jiantong Wang, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2024. “Data Management Plan and REDCap Mobile Data Capture for a Multi-Country Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial.” DIGITAL HEALTH 10 (January): 20552076241274217. doi:1177/20552076241274217.
  • Deng, Yanling, Kyle Steenland, Sheela S. Sinharoy, Jennifer L. Peel, Wenlu Ye, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2024. “Association of Household Air Pollution Exposure and Anemia among Pregnant Women: Analysis of Baseline Data from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial.” Environment International 190 (August): 108815. doi:1016/j.envint.2024.108815.
  • Sivalogan, Kasthuri, Donghai Liang, Carolyn Accardi, Anaite Diaz-Artiga, Xin Hu, Erick Mollinedo, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2024. “Human Milk Composition Is Associated with Maternal Body Mass Index in a Cross-Sectional, Untargeted Metabolomics Analysis of Human Milk from Guatemalan Mothers.” Current Developments in Nutrition 8 (5): 102144. doi:1016/j.cdnut.2024.102144.
  • Campbell, Devan A., Michael Johnson, Ricardo Piedrahita, Ajay Pillarisetti, Lance A. Waller, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2024. “Factors Determining Black Carbon Exposures among Pregnant Women Enrolled in the HAPIN Trial.” Environmental Science & Technology, May, acs.est.3c09991. doi:1021/acs.est.3c09991.
  • Patil, Sneha S, Naveen Puttaswamy, Andres Cardenas, Dana Boyd Barr, Santu Ghosh, and Kalpana Balakrishnan. 2024. “Protocol for CARES–HAPIN: An Ambidirectional Cohort Study on Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Risk of Early Childhood Caries.” BMJ Open 14 (5): e083874. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-083874.
  • Checkley, William, Lisa M Thompson, Shakir Hossen, Laura Nicolaou, Kendra N Williams, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2024. “Cooking with Liquefied Petroleum Gas or Biomass and Fetal Growth Outcomes: A Multi-Country Randomised Controlled Trial.” The Lancet Global Health 12 (5): e815–25. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00033-0.
  • Younger A, Ye W, Alkon A, Harknett K, Kirby MA, Elon L, Lovvorn AE, et al; HAPIN Investigators. “Effects of a liquefied petroleum gas stove intervention on stillbirth, congenital anomalies and neonatal mortality: A multi-country household air pollution intervention network trial.” Environmental Pollution. 2024 Jan 27:123414. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123414.

2023

  • Balakrishnan, Kalpana, Kyle Steenland, Thomas Clasen, Howard Chang, Michael Johnson, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2023. “Exposure–Response Relationships for Personal Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter (PM2·5), Carbon Monoxide, and Black Carbon and Birthweight: An Observational Analysis of the Multicountry Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial.” The Lancet Planetary Health 7 (5): e387–96. doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(23)00052-9.
  • Ajay Pillarisetti, Wenlu Ye, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Ghislaine Rosa, Anaité Díaz-Artiga, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2023. “Post-Birth Exposure Contrasts for Children during the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Randomized Controlled Trial.” medRxiv, January, doi:10.1101/2023.07.04.23292226.
  • Simkovich, Suzanne M., Shakir Hossen, Eric D. McCollum, Ashley K. Toenjes, John P. McCracken, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2023. “Lung Ultrasound Protocol and Quality Control of Image Interpretation Using an Adjudication Panel in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial.” Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, February, S0301-5629(23)00005-4. doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2023.01.005.
  • Williams KN, Quinn A, North H, Wang J, Pillarisetti A, Thompson LM, et al; HAPIN Investigators. “Fidelity and adherence to a liquefied petroleum gas stove and fuel intervention: The multi-country Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial”. Environnent International. 2023 Sep;179:108160. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108160. 
  • Younger A, Alkon A, Harknett K, Kirby MA, Elon L, Lovvorn AE, et al; HAPIN investigators. "Effects of a LPG stove and fuel intervention on adverse maternal outcomes: A multi-country randomized controlled trial conducted by the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN)." Environment International. 2023 Aug;178:108059. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108059. 
  • Ye, Wenlu, Ajay Pillarsetti, Oscar de Leon, Kyle Steenland, Jennifer L. Peel, et al. 2023, pre-print. "Baseline associations between household air pollution exposure and blood pressure among pregnant women in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) multi-country randomized controlled trial." Pre-print, Public and Global Health. doi: 10.1101/2023.01.23.23284847.

2022

  • Checkley, William, Shakir Hossen, Ghislaine Rosa, Lisa M. Thompson, John P. McCracken, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2022. “Facing the Realities of Pragmatic Design Choices in Environmental Health Studies: Experiences from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (7): 3790. doi:10.3390/ijerph19073790.
  • Hennessee, Ian, Miles A. Kirby, Xavier Misago, Jackie Mupfasoni, Thomas Clasen, Uriel Kitron, Joshua P. Rosenthal, and Emmanuel Hakizimana. 2022. “Assessing the Effects of Cooking Fuels on Anopheles Mosquito Behavior: An Experimental Study in Rural Rwanda.” The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 106 (4): 1196–1208. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.21-0997.
  • Kaufman, Joel D. 2022. “Invited Perspective: A Critical Part of a Real-World Environmental Health Trial Is to Demonstrate That the Intervention Reduced Exposure.” Environmental Health Perspectives 130 (9): 091304. doi:10.1289/EHP11697.
  • Nicolaou, Laura, Lindsay Underhill, Shakir Hossen, Suzanne Simkovich, Gurusamy Thangavel, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2022. “Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Association between Personal Exposure to Household Air Pollution and Blood Pressure in Adult Women: Evidence from the Multi-Country Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial.” Environmental Research 214 (November): 114121. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2022.114121.
  • Rajamani, Karthikeyan D., Sankar Sambandam, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Naveen Puttaswamy, Gurusamy Thangavel, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2022. “Visualizing Field Data Collection Procedures of Exposure and Biomarker Assessments for the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial in India.” Journal of Visualized Experiments, no. 190 (December): 64144. doi:10.3791/64144.
  • Ye, Wenlu, Gurusamy Thangavel, Ajay Pillarisetti, Kyle Steenland, Jennifer L. Peel, Kalpana Balakrishnan, et al. 2022. “Association between Personal Exposure to Household Air Pollution and Gestational Blood Pressure among Women Using Solid Cooking Fuels in Rural Tamil Nadu, India.” Environmental Research 208 (May): 112756. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2022.112756.
  • Ye, Wenlu, Kyle Steenland, Ashlinn Quinn, Jiawen Liao, Kalpana Balakrishnan, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2022. “Effects of a Liquefied Petroleum Gas Stove Intervention on Gestational Blood Pressure: Intention-to-Treat and Exposure-Response Findings From the HAPIN Trial.” Hypertension 79 (8): 1887–98. doi:10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.122.19362.

2021

  • Dávila-Román, Víctor G., Ashley K. Toenjes, Rachel M. Meyers, Pattie M. Lenzen, Suzanne M. Simkovich, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2021. “Ultrasound Core Laboratory for the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial: Standardized Training and Image Management for Field Studies Using Portable Ultrasound in Fetal, Lung, and Vascular Evaluations.” Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, April, S0301562921000880. doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2021.02.015.
  • Hengstermann, Mayarí, Anaité Díaz-Artiga, Roberto Otzóy-Sucúc, Ana Laura Maria Ruiz-Aguilar, and Lisa M. Thompson. “Developing Visual Messages to Support Liquefied Petroleum Gas Use in Intervention Homes in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial in Rural Guatemala.” Health Education & Behavior, March. SAGE Publications Inc, 1090198121996280. doi:10.1177/1090198121996280.
  • Iribagiza, Chantal, Taylor Sharpe, Jeremy Coyle, Pie Nkubito, Ricardo Piedrahita, Michael Johnson, and Evan A. Thomas. 2021. “Evaluating the Effects of Access to Air Quality Data on Household Air Pollution and Exposure—An Interrupted Time Series Experimental Study in Rwanda.” Sustainability 13 (20): 11523. doi:10.3390/su132011523.
  • Liao, Jiawen, Miles A. Kirby, Ajay Pillarisetti, Ricardo Piedrahita, Kalpana Balakrishnan, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2021. “LPG Stove and Fuel Intervention among Pregnant Women Reduce Fine Particle Air Pollution Exposures in Three Countries: Pilot Results from the HAPIN Trial.” Environmental Pollution 291 (December): 118198. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118198.
  • Quinn, Ashlinn K., Kendra N. Williams, Lisa M. Thompson, Steven A. Harvey, Ricardo Piedrahita, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2021. “Fidelity and Adherence to a Liquefied Petroleum Gas Stove and Fuel Intervention during Gestation: The Multi-Country Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Randomized Controlled Trial.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 (23): 12592. doi:10.3390/ijerph182312592.
  • Simkovich, Suzanne M., Lindsay J. Underhill, Miles A. Kirby, Mary E. Crocker, Dina Goodman, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2021. “Resources and Geographical Access to Care for Severe Pediatric Pneumonia in Four Resource-Limited Settings.” American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, October, doi:10.1164/rccm.202104-1013OC.
  • Suzanne M. Simkovich, Lisa M. Thompson, Maggie L. Clark, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Alejandra Bussalleu, et al. 2021. “A Risk Assessment Tool for Resumption of Research Activities during the COVID-19 Pandemic for Field Trials in Low Resource Settings.” BMC Medical Research Methodology 21 (1): 68. doi:10.1186/s12874-021-01232-x.

2020

  • Barr, Dana Boyd, Naveen Puttaswamy, Lindsay M. Jaacks, Kyle Steenland, Sarah Rajkumar, Savannah Gupton, P. Barry Ryan, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Jennifer L. Peel, William Checkley, Thomas Clasen, Maggie L. Clark, and (HAPIN Investigative Team). 2020. “Design and Rationale of the Biomarker Center of the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial.” Environmental Health Perspectives 128 (4): 047010. doi:10.1289/EHP5751.
  • Burrowes, Vanessa J., Ricardo Piedrahita, Ajay Pillarisetti, Lindsay J. Underhill, Magdalena Fandiño‐Del‐Rio, Michael Johnson, Josiah L. Kephart, et al; 2020. “Comparison of Next‐generation Portable Pollution Monitors to Measure Exposure to PM2.5 from Household Air Pollution in Puno, Peru.” Indoor Air 30 (3): 445–58. doi:10.1111/ina.12638
  • Clasen, Thomas, William Checkley, Jennifer L. Peel, Kalpana Balakrishnan, John P. McCracken, Ghislaine Rosa, Lisa M. Thompson, Dana Boyd Barr, Maggie L. Clark, Michael A. Johnson, Lance A. Waller, Lindsay M. Jaacks, Kyle Steenland, J. Jaime Miranda, Howard H. Chang, Dong-Yun Kim, Eric D. McCollum, Victor G. Davila-Roman, Aris Papageorghiou, Joshua P. Rosenthal; HAPIN Investigators. 2020. “Design and Rationale of the HAPIN Study: A Multicountry Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Effect of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Stove and Continuous Fuel Distribution.” Environmental Health Perspectives 128 (4): 047008. doi:10.1289/EHP6407.
  • Crocker, Mary E, Shakir Hossen, Dina Goodman, Suzanne M Simkovich, Miles Kirby, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2020. “Effects of High Altitude on Respiratory Rate and Oxygen Saturation Reference Values in Healthy Infants and Children Younger than 2 Years in Four Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study.” The Lancet Global Health 8 (3): e362–73. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30543-1.
  • Iribagiza, Chantal, Taylor Sharpe, Daniel Wilson, and Evan A. Thomas. 2020. “User-Centered Design of an Air Quality Feedback Technology to Promote Adoption of Clean Cookstoves.” Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology 30 (6): 925–36. doi:10.1038/s41370-020-0250-2.
  • Johnson, Michael A., Kyle Steenland, Ricardo Piedrahita, Maggie L. Clark, Ajay Pillarisetti, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2020. “Air Pollutant Exposure and Stove Use Assessment Methods for the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial.” Environmental Health Perspectives 128 (4): 047009. doi:10.1289/EHP6422.
  • Puttaswamy, Naveen, Sudhakar Saidam, Gayathri Rajendran, Kokila Arumugam, Savannah Gupton, et al. 2020. “Cross-Validation of Biomonitoring Methods for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Metabolites in Human Urine: Results from the Formative Phase of the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial in India.” Journal of Chromatography B 1154 (October): 122284. doi:10.1016/j.jchromb.2020.122284.
  • Sambandam, Sankar, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Saritha Sendhil, Wenlu Ye, Ajay Pillarisetti, Gurusamy Thangavel, Durairaj Natesan, Rengaraj Ramasamy, Amudha Natarajan, Vigneswari Aravindalochanan, A. Vinayagamoorthi, S. Sivavadivel, R. Uma Maheswari, Lingeswari Balakrishnan, S. Gayatri, Srinivasan Nargunanathan, Sathish Madhavan, Naveen Puttaswamy, Sarada S. Garg, et al...Kalpana Balakrishnan. 2020. “Exposure Contrasts Associated with a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Intervention at Potential Field Sites for the Multi-Country Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial in India: Results from Pilot Phase Activities in Rural Tamil Nadu.” BMC Public Health 20 (1): 1799. doi:10.1186/s12889-020-09865-1.
  • Simkovich, Suzanne M., Lindsay J. Underhill, Miles A. Kirby, Dina Goodman, Mary E. Crocker, et al. 2020. “Design and Conduct of Facility-Based Surveillance for Severe Childhood Pneumonia in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial.” ERJ Open Research 6 (1): 00308–02019. doi:10.1183/23120541.00308-2019.
  • Williams, Kendra N., Lisa M. Thompson, Zoe Sakas, Mayari Hengstermann, Ashlinn Quinn, et al. 2020. “Designing a Comprehensive Behaviour Change Intervention to Promote and Monitor Exclusive Use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Stoves for the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial.” BMJ Open 10 (9): e037761. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037761.
  • Wilson, Daniel Lawrence, Kendra N. Williams, and Ajay Pillarisetti. 2020. “An Integrated Sensor Data Logging, Survey, and Analytics Platform for Field Research and Its Application in HAPIN, a Multi-Center Household Energy Intervention Trial.” Sustainability 12 (5): 1805. doi:10.3390/su12051805.

2019

  • Goodman, Dina, Mary E Crocker, Farhan Pervaiz, Eric D McCollum, Kyle Steenland, et al. 2019. “Challenges in the Diagnosis of Paediatric Pneumonia in Intervention Field Trials: Recommendations from a Pneumonia Field Trial Working Group.” The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, October, S2213260019302498. doi:10.1016/S2213-2600(19)30249-8.
  • Liao, Jiawen, John P. McCracken, Ricardo Piedrahita, Lisa Thompson, Erick Mollinedo, Eduardo Canuz, et al; HAPIN Investigators. 2019. “The Use of Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon Systems to Estimate Indirect Personal Exposure to Household Air Pollution.” Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, September. doi:10.1038/s41370-019-0172-z.
  • Quinn, Ashlinn K, Kendra Williams, Lisa M Thompson, Ghislaine Rosa, Anaité Díaz-Artiga, Gurusamy Thangavel, Kalpana Balakrishnan, J Jaime Miranda, Joshua P Rosenthal, Thomas F Clasen, and Steven A Harvey. 2019. “Compensating Control Participants When the Intervention Is of Significant Value: Experience in Guatemala, India, Peru and Rwanda.” BMJ Global Health 4 (4): e001567. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001567.

2018

  • Steenland, Kyle, Ajay Pillarisetti, Miles Kirby, Jennifer Peel, Maggie Clark, Will Checkley, Howard H. Chang, and Thomas Clasen. 2018. “Modeling the Potential Health Benefits of Lower Household Air Pollution after a Hypothetical Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Cookstove Intervention.” Environment International 111 (February): 71–79. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2017.11.018.

Conference Presentations and Posters

  • De Leon, Oscar, Lisa Marie Thompson, Vigneswari Aravindalochanan, Sheela S. Sinharoy, Ajay Pillarisetti, et al. 2024 "Effects of a cleaner fuel intervention on child devlopment at 12 months in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network trial." ISEE Conference Abstracts 2024(1): isee.2024.1619. doi: 10.1289/isee.2024.1619.
  • Grajeda, Laura M., Anaite Diaz-Artiga, Maria Renee Lopez, Keyla Castellanos, Tatiana Petrovick, Albino Barraza Villarreal, Lisa M. Thompson, et al. 2024. "Early life liquefied petroleum gas intervention and pulmonary function in Guatemalan children from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network trial." ISEE Conference Abstracts 2024(1): isee.2024.0347. doi: 10.1289/isee.2024.0347.
  • Younger, Ashley, Abbey Alkon, Kristen Harknett, Miles A. Kirby, Amy E. Lovvorn, et al. 2022 "Effects of a liquefied petroleum gas cookstove and fuel intervention on fetal and neonatal outcomes: a multi-country randomized controlled trial conducted by the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial." ISEE Conference Abstracts 2022(1): isee.2022.O-OP-197. doi: 10.1289/isee.2022.O-OP-197.
  • Quinn, A, K Williams, L Thompson, G Rosa, A Diaz-Artiga, G Thangavel, K Balakrishnan, J Miranda, J Rosenthal, T Clasen, and S Harvey. 2019a. "Development of compensation strategies for control participants in an environmental trial with an intervention of significant value: experience from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) mult-country trial." Environmental Epidemiology 3 (Supplement 1): 319-320. doi: 10.1097/01.EE9.0000609500.95899.bf.
  • Gurusamy, T, K Balakrishnan, L Balakrishnan, U Maheswari, D Natesan, R Ramasamy, V Aravinth, S Harvey, K Williams, and T Clasen. 2019. "Development of behavioral message strategy for participants who got LPG stove in an environmental trial—experience from the India arm of the HAPIN multi-country trial." Environmental Epidemiology 3 (Supplemental 1): 146. doi: 10.1097/01.EE9.0000607360.41302.3f.
  • Gupton, Savannah Dawn, Maggie L. Clark, Sarah Rajkumar, Carmen Lucia Contreras, Gary Malpartida Guzman, et al. 2018. "Cardiovascular Biomarker Validation in Dried Blood Spots and Plasma for the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial." ISEE Conference Abstracts 2018(1): isesisee.2018.P02.3510. doi: 10.1289/isesisee.2018.P02.3510.

Other Related Publications by HAPIN Investigators

  • Clasen, Thomas, and Kirk R. Smith. 2019. “Let the ‘A’ in WASH Stand for Air: Integrating Research and Interventions to Improve Household Air Pollution (HAP) and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) in Low-Income Settings.” Environmental Health Perspectives 127 (2): 025001. doi:10.1289/EHP4752.
  • Deshpande, Aniruddha, Noah Scovronick, Thomas F. Clasen, Lance Waller, Jiantong Wang, et al. 2023. “Heat Exposure among Adult Women in Rural Tamil Nadu, India.” Environmental Science & Technology, December, acs.est.3c03461. doi:10.1021/acs.est.3c03461.
  • Kearns KA, Naeher LP, McCracken JP, Boyd Barr D, Saikawa E, et al. “Estimating personal exposures to household air pollution and plastic garbage burning among adolescent girls in Jalapa, Guatemala.” Chemosphere 2024 Jan;348:140705. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140705. 
  • McCollum, Eric D., William Checkley, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Thomas F. Clasen, and Jennifer L. Peel. 2024. “Fetal and Early Life Stove and Fuel Interventions and Respiratory Oscillometry Lung Function Measures in Pre-School Aged Children from Ghana.” American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, January, rccm.202311-2197ED. 10.1164/rccm.202311-2197ED.
  • Simkovich, Suzanne M., Kendra N. Williams, Suzanne Pollard, David Dowdy, et al. 2019. “A Systematic Review to Evaluate the Association between Clean Cooking Technologies and Time Use in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16 (13): 2277. doi:10.3390/ijerph16132277.
  • Sinharoy, Sheela S, Thomas Clasen, and Reynaldo Martorell. 2020. “Air Pollution and Stunting: A Missing Link?” The Lancet Global Health 8 (4): e472–75. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30063-2.
  • Thompson, Lisa M. 2022. "Invited Perspective: Household Air Pollution—Can Randomized Controlled Trials Provide the Answers to Complex Intervention Questions?" Environmental Health Perspectives 130(4). doi: 10.1289/EHP11096.