Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Allan Just, Associate IBES and Epidemiology Professor, and Joseph Braun, Professor of Epidemiology and an IBES Faculty Fellow, are among the authors of a study finding that poor air quality negatively affects marathon finish times.

Ten years of research projects, countless ideas, one shared mission: to build a sustainable future.

IBES Fellow Joseph Braun – a professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Climate, Environment & Health – spoke about the new center's research and whether the current presidential administration could affect its work.

IBES and Epidemiology Associate Professor Allan Just led the development of this state-of-the-art national spatiotemporal exposure model, which reconstructs daily particulate air pollution estimates for use in a wide range of health studies.

New research from IBES Associate Professor Allan Just and Faculty Fellow Joseph Braun, both epidemiologists in the Brown University School of Public Health, suggests that poor air quality increases marathon runners' race times.