Brigham Young University
C. Arden Pope III, Mary Lou Fulton Professor

Department: Economics

Vita
 

 Education

 
  • IPH Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health, 1992/93
    PhD, Iowa State University, 1981
    MS, Iowa State University, 1981
    BS, Brigham Young University, 1978
 

 Research and Professional Experience

 

  • Dr. Pope is the Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Economics and Associate Dean of the College of Family Home and Social Sciences at Brigham Young University.  He received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University (Economics/Statistics, 1981) and was a Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health (Environmental Health and Public Policy, 1992/93).  He has conducted research dealing with various natural resource and environmental issues and his cross-disciplinary research in environmental economics and air pollution epidemiology has resulted in seminal studies on the health effects of air pollution.  Dr. Pope has collaborated on various key studies of human health effects of short- and long-term air pollution exposure and has played prominent roles in reviewing and interpreting this literature.  He has been the recipient of various honors and awards including the Thomas T. Mercer Joint Prize from the American Association for Aerosol Research and the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (2001), the Utah Governor’s Medal for Science & Technology (2004), and Honorary Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP Hon, 2008).


Email: cap3@byu.edu
Office: 142 FOB
Phone: 801-422-2157
Personal Page
 

 Selected Publications

 
Pope CA III, Burnett RT, Turner MC, Cohen A, Krewski D, Jerrett M, Gapster SM, Thun MJ.  Lung cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality associated with ambient air pollution and cigarette smoke: shape of the exposure-response relationships. Environmental Health Perspectives (ahead of print, July 2011)
 
Brook RD, Rajagopalan S, Pope CA III, Brook JR, Bhatnagar A, Diez-Rouz A, Holguin F, Hong U, Luepker RV, Mittleman M, Peters A, Siscovick D, Smith SC, Whitsel L, Kaufman JD.  Particulate matter air pollution and cardiovascular disease: an update to the scientific statement from the American Heart Association.  Circulation 2010;121:2331-2378.
 
Smith KR, Jerrett M, Anderson HR, Burnett RT, Stone V, Derwent R, Atkinson RW, Cohen A, Shonkoff SB, Krewski D, Pope CA III, Thurston G, Thun MJ.  Impacts on public health of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: the shorter-lived greenhouse pollutants.  Lancet 2009; 374:2091-2103.
 
Pope CA III, Burnett RT, Krewski D, Jerrett M, Shi Y, Calle EE, Thun MJ.  Cardiovascular mortality and exposure to airborne fine particulate matter and cigarette smoke: shape of the exposure-response relationship.  Circulation. 2009;120:941-948.
 
Jerrett M, Burnett RT, Pope CA III, Ito K, Thurston G, Krewski D, Shi YL, Calle E, Thun M.  Long-term ozone exposure and mortality.   New England Journal of Medicine 2009;360:1085-1095.
 
Pope CA III, Ezzati M, Dockery DW.  Fine-particulate air pollution and life expectancy in the United States.  New England Journal of Medicine 2009;360:376-386.
 
Pope CA III, Muhlestein JB, May HT, Renlund DG, Anderson JL, Horne BD. Ischemic heart disease events triggered by short-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution. Circulation 2006;114:2443-2448.
 
Pope CA III, Dockery DW. 2006 Critical Review–Health effects of fine particulate air pollution: Lines that connect. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 2006;56:709-742. 
 
Pope CA III, Burnett RT, Thurston GD, Thun MJ, Calle EE, Krewski D, Godleski JJ. Cardiovascular mortality and long-term exposure to particulate air pollution: epidemiological evidence of general pathophysiological pathways of disease. Circulation 2004; 109:71-77.
 
Pope CA III, Burnett RT, Thun MJ, Calle EE, Krewski D, Ito K, Thurston GD. Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality and long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution. Journal of the American Medical Association 2002;287:1132-1141.
 
Pope CA III, Verrier RL, Lovett EG, Larson AC, Raizenne ME, Kanner RE, Schwartz J, Villegas GM, Gold DR, Dockery DW. Heart rate variability associated with particulate air pollution. American Heart Journal 1999;138:890-899.
 
Pope CA III, Thun MJ, Namboodiri MM, Dockery DW, Evans JS, Speizer FE, Heath CW Jr. Particulate air pollution as a predictor of mortality in a prospective study of U.S. adults. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 1995;151:669-674.
 
Dockery DW, Pope CA III, Xu X, Spengler JD, Ware JH, Fay ME, Ferris BG Jr, Speizer FE. An association between air pollution and mortality in six U.S. cities. The New England Journal of Medicine 1993;329:1753-59.
 
Pope CA III. Respiratory disease associated with community air pollution and a steel mill, Utah Valley. American Journal of Public Health 1989;79:623-628.