Richard Peltier

Richard Peltier is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has more than 15 years of research and teaching experience in exposure science, atmospheric chemistry,  measurement outreach, data analyses, and stakeholder outreach. Dr. Peltier received a BS in Biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a Master of Public Health in Environmental Health from Columbia University, and a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in  environmental medicine and inhalation toxicology at the New York University (NYU) Langone School of Medicine before taking an appointment at the University of Massachusetts. His lab focuses on questions at the intersection of human exposure to air pollution and health impacts, with measurement domains including traditional indoor and outdoor locations, but also in understudied regions of the world. His recent work includes research in West Africa, the Indian subcontinent (with a particular focus on India and Nepal), Central Asia, remote indigenous regions of Canada, and, most recently, in the South Pacific. Dr Peltier is also active in novel instrument development, including the development of low cost sensing applications in health research that are meant to better characterize human exposure to air quality. Finally, Dr Peltier is highly active in diverse public engagement beyond the academy, including leading work for the World Meteorological Organization aimed at member states who are interested in low cost sensing applications, presenting at workshops at the World Health Organization on the use of these sensors, and writing explainers for UNICEF to

engage the range of global field office information needs. He has receiving funding from the US EPA, the National Institute of Health, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the National Science Foundation. He has published 58 peer‐reviewed papers, has provided ad‐hoc grant reviewing for the US EPA, NSF, NIH, NASA, and CDC, is a recent Fulbright awardee, and is the Deputy Editor in Chief for the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.