Research Interests

Professor Bell addresses air pollution and human health through research that integrates several disciplines, such as environmental engineering and epidemiology. She aims to combine her environmental engineering and public health background to examine the air pollution system from emissions to their impact on health.

Research interests are the statistical analysis of the health impacts of air pollution episodes, meteorological and air quality modeling, and policy implications.

Her doctoral work involved tropospheric ozone modeling, which explored how changes in emissions of ozone precursors affect ambient air concentrations. She also analyzed the spatial and temporal compliance with regulatory standards and integrated air quality modeling systems with human health research. Her dissertation included analysis of the health impacts of the London smog of 1952.