Best Environmental Epidemiology Paper Award

This ISEE annual award for the best environmental epidemiology paper published in a peer-reviewed journal aims to recognize excellence in the field of environmental epidemiology and encourage the publication of outstanding papers.

Criteria for the award include but are not limited to:

• Quality (data, analyses, presentation, argument)
• Originality
• Importance/impact
• Relevance to environmental epidemiology

The winning paper is selected by the Best Environmental Epidemiology Paper (BEEP) Award subcommittee and approved by the Executive Council. The handling editor of the journal in which the paper is published will receive a special certificate. Authors, editors, and readers may make nominations. Only outstanding papers should be nominated.

How to Nominate a Paper for the BEEP

Note, nominated papers for the 2018 award must be published in a scientific journal between Jan 1 and Dec 31, 2017
Nomination packages must contain:

1. Nomination Letter
2. Copy of the paper
3. Brief statement (50-100 words) indicating the specific aspect of the paper that makes it outstanding (e.g., the value of its methodologic contribution or the policy controversy it contributes to resolving).  

Send nominations and supporting statements to the ISEE Secretariat with "Best Environmental Epidemiology Paper (BEEP) Nomination" appearing in the subject line. The winning paper will be announced during the annual conference.

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2018 Award Winner

A cleaner burning biomass-fuelled cookstove intervention to prevent pneumonia in children under 5 years old in rural Malawi (the Cooking and Pneumonia Study): a cluster randomised controlled trial
Kevin Mortimer, Chifundo B. Ndamala, Andrew W. Naunje, Jullita Malava, Cynthia Katundu, William Weston, Deborah Havens, Daniel Pope, Nigel G. Bruce, Moffat Nyirenda, Duolao Wang, Amelia Crampin, Jonathan Grigg, John Balmes, Stephen B. Gordon

 Lancet 2017; 389: 167–75

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Past Award Winners

2017	Association between Air Pollution and Coronary Artery Calcification within Six Metropolitan Areas in the USA (the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution): A Longitudinal Cohort Study Antonio Gasparrini, Yuming Guo, Masahiro Hashizume, Eric Lavigne, Antonella Zanobetti, Joel Schwartz, Aurelio Tobias, Shilu Tong, Joacim Rocklöv, Bertil Forsberg, Michela Leone, Manuela De Sario, Michelle L Bell, Yue-Liang Leon Guo, Chang-fu Wu, Haidong Kan, Seung-Muk Yi, Micheline de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho, Paulo Hilario Nascimento Saldiva, Yasushi Honda, Ho Kim, and Ben Armstrong:   Lancet; 386: 369–75 May 21, 2015
2016	Mortality Risk Attributable to High and Low Ambient Temperature: a Multicountry Observational Study Antonio Gasparrini, Yuming Guo, Masahiro Hashizume, Eric Lavigne, Antonella Zanobetti, Joel Schwartz, Aurelio Tobias, Shilu Tong, Joacim Rocklöv, Bertil Forsberg, Michela Leone, Manuela De Sario, Michelle L Bell, Yue-Liang Leon Guo, Chang-fu Wu, Haidong Kan, Seung-Muk Yi, Micheline de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho, Paulo Hilario Nascimento Saldiva, Yasushi Honda, Ho Kim, and Ben Armstrong:   Lancet; 386: 369–75 May 21, 2015
2015	Lung Function and Incidence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease after Improved Cooking Fuels and Kitchen Ventilation: A 9-Year Prospective Cohort Study  Yumin Zhou, Yimin Zou, Xiaochen Li, Shuyun Chen, Zhuxiang Zhao, Fang He, Weifeng Zou, Qiuping Luo, Wenxi Li, Yiling Pan, Xiaoliang Deng, Xiaoping Wang, Rong Qiu, Shiliang Liu, Jingping Zheng, Nanshan Zhong, Pixin Ran:   PLOS Medicine: PLoS Med 11(3): e1001621
2014	Does Ambient Air Pollution Trigger Stillbirth? Ambarina S. Faiz, George G. Rhoads, Kitaw Demissie, Yong Lin, Lakota Kruse, David Q. Rich:   Epidemiology, 24(4):538-544, July 2013
2013	Birth Weight, Head Circumference, and Prenatal Exposure to Acrylamide from Maternal Diet: The European Prospective Mother-Child Study (NewGeneris) Marie Pedersen, Hans Von Stedingk, Maria Botsivali, Silvia Agramunt, Jan Alexander, Gunnar Brunborg, Leda Chatzi, Sarah Fleming, Eleni Fthenou, Berit Granum, Kristine B. Gutzkow, Laura J. Hardie, Lisbeth E. Knudsen, Soterios A. Kyrtopoulos, Michelle A. Mendez, Domenico F. Merlo, Jeanette K. Nielsen, Per Rydberg, Dan Segerbäck, Jordi Sunyer, John Wright, Margareta Törnqvist, Jos C. Kleinjans, Manolis Kogevinas, and The Newgeneris Consortium: Environmental Health Perspectives, December 2012: 120:1739-1745
2011	Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler: PLoS ONE September 1, 2010: 5.9:1-8
2010	Fine-Particulate Air Pollution and Life Expectancy in the United States C. Arden Pope III, Majid Ezzati, and Douglas W. Dockery: New England Journal of Medicine January 22, 2009: 360:376-386
2009	Heat Effects on Mortality in 15 European Cities   Michela Baccini, Annibale Biggeri, Gabriele Accetta, T. Kosatsky, K Katsouyanni, A Analitis, HR Anderson, L Bisanti, D D’Ippoliti, J Danova, B Forsberg, S Medina, A Paldy, D Rabczenko, C Schindler, P Michelozzi:  Epidemiology 2008;19:711–719