Health Effects Institute’s 2026 Annual Conference – Chicago, IL

HEI is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1980 as an independent research organization to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. HEI typically receives balanced funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the worldwide motor vehicle industry. Other public and private organizations periodically support special projects or certain research programs.

Sessions will include:

• Stories of Policy Success: Real Examples of Inspiring Science-based Air Quality Action
• Global Progress Towards Air Quality Action And Its Impacts
• Smog to Synapse: Unraveling the Web of Neurodegenerative Risk and Resilience
• Particles in Motion: Tackling Brake, Tire, and Road Dust Emissions
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Bias in Environmental Health Research (But Were Afraid to Quantify)
• From Space to Place: Advancing Environmental Health with Remote Earth Observations
• Driving Change: Intermodal Freight’s Air Quality and Health Challenges and Opportunities

HEI 2026 Annual Conference Abstract Submissions Now Open (Deadline for submissions is Friday, January 9, 2026) 
We are now accepting abstract submissions for the 2026 HEI Annual Conference  for those interested in the Jane Warren Award and for research that is not funded by HEI but is relevant to HEI’s interests.