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Ajay Pillarisetti

University of California, Berkeley

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Scholarly Papers (13)

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Beyond Access: Clean Energy use in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 May 2025
Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Carlos F. Gould, Marc Jeuland, Ajay Pillarisetti, Shonali Pachauri, Rebekah Shirley, Karin Troncoso, Darby Jack, Matthew Leach, Simon Bachelor, Laura H Kwong and Daniel M. Kammen
Columbia University - Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, World Resources Institute, World Bank, Columbia University - Mailman School of Public Health, University of Surrey, Loughborough University, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Berkeley - Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory
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Powering Health with Energy in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 16 Apr 2025
Laura H Kwong, Robert Bailis, Misbath Daouda, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Rose M. Mutiso, Ajay Pillarisetti, Joshua Rosenthal, Rebekah Shirley, Shu Tao, Daniel M. Kammen and Thomas Clasen
University of California, Berkeley, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Columbia University, Energy for Growth Hub, University of California, Berkeley, Independent, World Resources Institute, Peking University, University of California, Berkeley - Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory and Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health
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Energy poverty, energy justice, energy access, clean energy

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Large-Scale Distribution of Liquified Petroleum Gas in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camp: Uptake, Reductions in Deforestation, and Carbon Financing Potential

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 29 Jul 2025
Christopher LeBoa, Mohammad Saeed Munim, Nuhu Amin, Jamil Rahman, Nazrin Akter, Mohammad Nuruzzaman, Mahbubur Rahman, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Ajay Pillarisetti, Stephen Luby and Laura H Kwong
University of California, Berkeley, - Health Systems and Population Studies Division, - Health Systems and Population Studies Division, - Health Systems and Population Studies Division, - Health Systems and Population Studies Division, - Health Systems and Population Studies Division, - Health Systems and Population Studies Division, Columbia University - Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University - Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine and University of California, Berkeley
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refugee, humanitarian, clean cooking, LPG, exclusive use, Rohingya, Bangladesh, deforestation, carbon finance, SDG7

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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

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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

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Mar 2025
Lindsay Underhill, Lisa de las Fuentes, Laura Nicolaou, Shakir Hossen, Anaité Díaz-Artiga, Ajay Pillarisetti, Aris T. Papageorghiou, Florien Ndagijimana, Ghislaine Rosa, Naveen Puttaswamy, John P. McCracken, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Kyle Steenland, Lisa M. Thompson, Lance A. Waller, Maggie L. Clark, Michael Johnson, Vigneswari Aravindalochanan, Sarada S. Garg, Sankar Sambandam, Suzanne M. Simkovich, Kendra N. Williams, Wenlu Ye, Jennifer L. Peel, William Checkley, Thomas Clasen and Victor G. Davila-Roman
Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University - Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, University of California, Berkeley, University of London, Eagle Research Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research, University of Georgia, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research, Emory University, Emory University, Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research, MedStar Health Research Institute, Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Johns Hopkins University - Department of International Health, Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health and Washington University in St. Louis
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Household Air Pollution, Atherosclerosis, Carotid Artery Ultrasound, Air Pollution, Global Health, Carotid Intima Media Thickness

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

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 Apr 2025
Lindsay Underhill, Lisa de las Fuentes, Laura Nicolaou, Shakir Hossen, Anaité Díaz-Artiga, Ajay Pillarisetti, Aris T. Papageorghiou, Florien Ndagijimana, Ghislaine Rosa, Gurusamy Thangavel, John P. McCracken, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Kyle Steenland, Lisa M. Thompson, Lance A. Waller, Maggie L. Clark, Michael Johnson, Sarada S. Garg, Sankar Sambandam, Suzanne M. Simkovich, Vigneswari Aravindalochanan, Kendra N. Williams, Wenlu Ye, Jennifer L. Peel, Thomas Clasen, William Checkley and Victor G. Davila-Roman
Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University - Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, University of California, Berkeley, University of London, Eagle Research Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), University of Georgia, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research, Emory University, Emory University, Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research, MedStar Health Research Institute, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University - Department of International Health and Washington University in St. Louis
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Household air pollution, atherosclerosis, carotid artery ultrasound, Air Pollution, global health, carotid intima media thickness

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Household Energy Use and Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Jun 2025
Ajay Pillarisetti, Misbath Daouda, Carlos F. Gould, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Thomas Clasen, Daniel M. Kammen, Heather Adair-Rohani, Wenlu Ye, A. Kofi Amegah and Kalpana Balakrishnan
University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Columbia University, Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley - Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, World Health Organization (WHO) - Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization (WHO) - World Health Organization, Geneva, University of Cape Coast - Department of Biomedical Sciences and Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University)
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Association between the Transition to Cleaner Cooking Energy Use and Hypertension in India

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Sep 2023
Priyanka deSouza, Jenny Lee, Jeremy Nemeth, Sunil Mani, Abhishek Jain, Abhishek Kar, Jennifer L. Peel, Sadeer Al-Kindi, Patrick L. Kinney, Ajay Pillarisetti, Wenlu Ye, Rockli Kim, S. V. Subramanian, Michelle L. Bell and Eric A.F. Simões
University of Colorado Denver, Harvard University, University of Colorado Denver, Council on Energy, Environment and Water, Council on Energy, Environment and Water, Council on Energy, Environment and Water, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, University Hospitals of Cleveland - University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Boston University - School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University - Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard University - Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Yale University - School of the Environment and University of Colorado at Denver - Department of Pediatrics
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air pollution, solid fuels, policy analysis, clean energy transition, India, hypertension

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Intervention and Exposure-Response Effects of Cooking with Liquefied Petroleum Gas Versus Biomass on Hemoglobin Concentrations in Pregnant Women: A Multi-Country Randomized Controlled Trial

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 Dec 2024
Sheela Sinharoy, Wenlu Ye, Ajay Pillarisetti, Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Lisa M. Thompson, Anaité Díaz-Artiga, Usha Ramakrishnan, Ghislaine Rosa, Maggie L. Clark, Dana Boyd Barr, Vigneswari Aravindalochanan, Kyle Steenland, Shirin Jabbarzadeh, Lindsay Underhill, Miles A. Kirby, William Checkley, Jennifer L. Peel and Thomas Clasen
Emory University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Emory University, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Emory University, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Emory University, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Emory University, Emory University, Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University - Department of International Health, Colorado State University, Fort Collins and Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health
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air pollution, carbon monoxide, carbon monoxide poisoning, particulate matter, environmental pollutants, biomass, developing countries, pregnancy, women's health

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Effects of an LPG Stove Intervention on COVID-19 Antibodies and Infection in Adult Women and Infants: Results from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 21 Jan 2025
Lindsay Underhill, Maggie L. Clark, Dana Boyd Barr, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Naveen Puttaswamy, Ajay Pillarisetti, Anaité Díaz-Artiga, Lisa M. Thompson, John P. McCracken, Victor G. Davila-Roman, Lance A. Waller, Bonnie N. Young, Michael Johnson, Joshua Rosenthal, William Checkley, Thomas Clasen, Jennifer L. Peel and Kyle Steenland
Washington University in St. Louis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Emory University, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research, University of California, Berkeley, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Emory University, University of Georgia, Washington University in St. Louis, Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, National Institutes of Health, Malaysia, Johns Hopkins University - Department of International Health, Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health, Colorado State University, Fort Collins and Emory University
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Indoor air pollution, COVID-19, air pollution, environmental epidemiology, low- and middle-income countries, global health

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Impacts of a Sustained, Large-Scale Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Cooking Intervention in the Rohingya Refugee Camp on Time Use, Household Air Pollution, and Health

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Sep 2025
Christopher LeBoa, Nuhu Amin, Mohammad Saeed Munim, Md. Jamil Rahman, Nazrin Akter, Mohammad Nuruzzaman, Mahbubur Rahman, Ajay Pillarisetti, Stephen Luby and Laura H Kwong
University of California, Berkeley, - Health Systems and Population Studies Division, - Health Systems and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research (ICDDR’B), - Health Systems and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research (ICDDR’B), - Health Systems and Population Studies Division, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University - Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine and University of California, Berkeley
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refugee, cooking fuel, humanitarian, LPG, Rohingya, Bangladesh, PM2.5, exposure

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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)

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 May 2023
Ashley Younger, Abbey Alkon, Kristen Harknett, Miles A. Kirby, Lisa Elon, Amy E. Lovvorn, Jiantong Wang, Wenlu Ye, Anaité Diaz-Artiga, John P. McCracken, Adly Castañaza Gonzalez, Libny Monroy Alarcon, Alexie Mukeshimana, Ghislaine Rosa, Marilu Chiang, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Sarada S. Garg, Ajay Pillarisetti, Ricardo Piedrahita, Michael Johnson, Rachel Craik, Aris T. Papageorghiou, Ashley Toenjes, Ashlinn Quinn, Kendra N. Williams, Lindsay Underhill, Howard H. Chang, Luke P. Naeher, Joshua Rosenthal, William Checkley, Jennifer L. Peel, Thomas Clasen, Lisa M. Thompson and HAPIN Investigators
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Harvard University, Emory University, Emory University, Emory University, University of California, Berkeley, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, University of Georgia, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Eagle Research Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Asociación Benefica PRISMA, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, University of Oxford - Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford - Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, Washington University in St. Louis, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis, Emory University, University of Georgia, National Institutes of Health, Malaysia, Johns Hopkins University - Department of International Health, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and Independent
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cooking fuel, birth outcomes, household air pollution, low- and middle-income countries, spontaneous abortion, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, postpartum hemorrhage and maternal mortality

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Impacts of Contemporaneous Air Pollution Exposure on Cognitive Performance in Kenya

NBER Working Paper No. w34557
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 Dec 2025
Xuqian Ma, Michelle Layvant, Edward Miguel, Eric Ochieng, Ajay Pillarisetti and Michael W. Walker
University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, Innovations for Poverty Action, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Berkeley - Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)
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Optimizing Exposure Measures in Large Scale Household Air Pollution Studies: Results from the Multi-Country Hapin Trial

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 May 2024
Kyle Steenland, Ajay Pillarisetti, Michael Johnson, Joshua Rosenthal, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Lindsay Underhill, Lisa M. Thompson, John P. McCracken, Lance A. Waller, Laura Nicolaou, Maggie Clark, William Checkley, Jennifer L. Peel and Thomas Clasen
Emory University, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, National Institutes of Health, Malaysia, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Washington University in St. Louis, Emory University, University of Georgia, Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Johns Hopkins University - Department of International Health, Colorado State University, Fort Collins and Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health
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household air pollution, personal samples, repeated measures, PM2.5

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Effects of a liquefied petroleum gas stove and fuel intervention and air pollution exposure on early childhood development: Findings from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network trial

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 26 May 2026
Lisa M. Thompson, Oscar de León, Sheela Sinharoy, Viviane Valdes, Seema Das, Vigneswari Aravindalochanan, Ajay Pillarisetti, Shirin Jabbarzadeh, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Anaité Díaz-Artiga, John P. McCracken, Ghislaine Rosa, Gurusamy Thangavel, Sankar Sambandam, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Naveen Puttaswamy, Marilu Chiang, Florien Ndagijimana, Amy E. Lovvorn, Kyle Steenland, Dana Boyd Barr, Usha Ramakrishnan, William Checkley, Jennifer L. Peel and Thomas Clasen
Emory University, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Emory University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), University of California, Berkeley, Emory University, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, University of Georgia, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Sri Ramachandra University, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research, Asociación Benefica PRISMA, Eagle Research Centre, Emory University, Emory University, Emory University, Emory University, Johns Hopkins University - Department of International Health, Colorado State University, Fort Collins and Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health
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Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI), early childhood development, household air pollution, particulate matter, exposure-response, intention-to-treat