PROJECT SUMMARY - PROJECT Urgent actions to address air pollution and energy choices are clearly needed, as energy demands are rapidly growing and city infrastructures are aging. Policies addressing energy emissions rarely take localized effects into account, nor include input from the community. The goal of the Center for Health, Energy, and Environmental Research is to provide research-based evidence and guidance to support the inclusion of health impacts and potential benefits for individual and collective decision making for energy, transportation, land use, and infrastructure choices and policies. Working with the Community Engagement Core and Milwaukee-based community partners, the proposed Research Project will develop a comprehensive menu of technology and policy options to support health, clean air, and active communities, and transform these into specific policy scenarios for community review and development. The project will also develop and evaluate a new, high-resolution reduced-form modeling framework, the Scenario Health Risk for Energy (SHRE, pronounced as “share”) model, to support the design and implementation of evidence-based health and climate interventions proposed by and co-developed with community partners. This model will merge best practices to quantify fine particulate matter (PM2.5), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), ozone, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Including ambient local pollutant concentrations, this model will be used to evaluate specific health impacts from both short- and long-term exposures, for use when developing the community-driven policy scenarios. Community-engaged social impact tracing techniques will be used to identify policy choices impacting a broader set of relevant metrics (e.g., access, affordability, mobility, etc.). These results will be shared and refined in an iterative process using quantitative and qualitative data from digital crowdsourcing to complement community-based individual and group interviews under guidance from the Center’s Community Advisory Board. We also will utilize tools to share the multidimensional impacts of health-first policies, working with our Data Science Core toward developing effective data visualizations and knowledge sharing protocols to engage with our community partners. This project will thus be able to identify policies with the greatest opportunity to improve health, and is designed for immediate translational impact with the potential to scale to other regions.