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Professor Frank Kelly

Visiting
Supervisors

Visiting Professor

Research subject areas

Population Health

Contact details

frank.kelly@kcl.ac.uk

Biography

Professor Frank Kelly is a visiting member of the School of Population Health & Environmental Sciences.

Professor Kelly leads a substantial research activity which spans all aspects of air pollution research from toxicology to science policy. He has led studies of the urban airshed within London including the impact of the introduction of London’s Congestion Charging Zone and Low Emission Zone.

Professor Kelly’s research examines the toxicity of PM associated metals and quinones, diesel and biodiesel exhaust emissions, wood smoke and the identification of biomarkers of exposure. A new area of investigation is ambient microplastics including heir identification and potential health effects.

Professor Kelly has published over 340 peer-reviewed papers as well as many conference papers and books (as author or editor) on the toxicology and health effects of ozone, nitrogen dioxide and particulate pollution. In addition to his academic work Professor Kelly is past President of the European Society for Free Radical Research and past Chairman of the British Association for Lung Research. He has provided policy support to the WHO on air pollution issues and he is Chairman of COMEAP the UK’s Department of Health’s Expert Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants.

Latest publications

Characterization of the public transit air microbiome and resistome reveals geographical specificity
Leung, M. H. Y., Tong, X., Bøifot, K. O., Bezdan, D., Butler, D. J., Danko, D. C., Gohli, J., Green, D. C., Hernandez, M. T., Kelly, F. J., Levy, S., Mason-Buck, G., Nieto-Caballero, M., Syndercombe-Court, D., Udekwu, K., Young, B. G., Mason, C. E., Dybwad, M. & Lee, P. K. H., Dec 2021, In: Microbiome. 9, 1, 112. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01044-7
Air pollution and trajectories of adolescent conduct problems: the roles of ethnicity and racism; evidence from the DASH longitudinal study
Karamanos, A., Mudway, I., Kelly, F., Dajnak, D., Beevers, S., Lu, Y., Elia, C., Tandon, S., Cruickshank, K., Dazzan, P., Maynard, M. & Harding, S., Nov 2021, In: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 56, 11, p. 2029-2039 11 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-021-02097-7
Associations between sources of particle number and mortality in four European cities
Rivas, I., Vicens, L., Basagaña, X., Tobías, A., Katsouyanni, K., Walton, H., Hüglin, C., Alastuey, A., Kulmala, M., Harrison, R. M., Pekkanen, J., Querol, X., Sunyer, J. & Kelly, F. J., Oct 2021, In: Environment International. 155, 106662. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2021.106662
Associations between exposure to landscape fire smoke and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a matched case-control study
Xue, T., Geng, G., Li, J., Han, Y., Guo, Q., Kelly, F. J., Wooster, M. J., Wang, H., Jiangtulu, B., Duan, X., Wang, B. & Zhu, T., 1 Sep 2021, In: The Lancet. Planetary health. 5, 9, p. e588-e598 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00153-4
A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance
The International MetaSUB Consortium, 24 Jun 2021, In: Cell. 184, 13, p. 3376-3393.e17 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.05.002
Derepression of glomerular filtration, renal blood flow and antioxidant defence in patients with type 2 diabetes at high-risk of cardiorenal disease
Zitouni, K., Steyn, M. R. C. P., Lyka, E., Kelly, F. J., Cook, P., Ster, I. C. & Earle, K. A., Dec 2020, In: Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 161, p. 283-289 7 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2020.10.005
Mineralogy, geochemistry and toxicity of size-segregated respirable deposited dust in underground coal mines
Trechera, P., Moreno, T., Córdoba, P., Moreno, N., Zhuang, X., Li, B., Li, J., Shangguan, Y., Kandler, K., Dominguez, A. O., Kelly, F. & Querol, X., 15 Nov 2020, In: Journal of Hazardous Materials. 399, 122935. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.122935
Using low-cost sensor technologies and advanced computational methods to improve dose estimations in health panel studies: results of the AIRLESS project
AIRLESS team, Nov 2020, In: Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. 30, 6, p. 981-989 9 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-020-0259-6
Detection of Microplastics in Ambient Particulate Matter Using Raman Spectral Imaging and Chemometric Analysis
Levermore, J. M., Smith, T. E. L., Smith, T. E. L., Kelly, F. J. & Wright, S. L., 7 Jul 2020, In: Analytical Chemistry. 92, 13, p. 8732-8740 9 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05445
Cartography of opportunistic pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in a tertiary hospital environment
MetaSUB Consortium, Jun 2020, In: Nature Medicine. 26, 6, p. 941-951 11 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0894-4

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