Harvard School of Public Health Professor Petros Koutrakis of the Department of Environmental Health is involved in numerous collaborations with the Chilean governmental and non-governmental agencies and universities to conduct research on policy issues related to air pollution. Since 1996, the Environmental Health Program at the HSPH has been working on various air pollution and environmental health studies in Chile. The program also provides training and technology to support a number of air pollution studies in Chile. There are a number of doctoral students from Chile at the HSPH who are actively involved in the project.

Participating Harvard faculty: Petros Koutrakis, Professor of Environmental Sciences, HSPH; Helen Suh, Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Exposure Assessment, HSPH

Collaborating Institutions: Corporación Nacional del Medio Ambiente (The National and the Metropolitan Region Environmental Commission) (CONAMA); Centro Nacional del Medio (CENMA); Servicio de Salud Medio Ambiental (SESMA); the Cámara de Comercio, Universidad de Chile; Universidad de Concepción, Chile; Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile.