Invited Perspective: Moving from Characterizing to Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Air Pollution Exposure

The growth in this literature has been facilitated by the increasing availability of national-scale air pollution concentration estimates at high geographic resolution that can be coupled with national-scale census data on sociodemographic patterns. Census data also limit the ability to conduct truly intersectional analyses or to incorporate attributes, such as sexual orientation or gender identity, that are underrepresented in the environmental justice literature (Collins et al. 2017). There is strong evidence of disparities by income or race/ethnicity in housing attributes (Adamkiewicz et al. 2011; Swope and Hernández 2019), and a modeling study demonstrated that disparities in pollutant infiltration can exacerbate disparities in ambient air pollution concentrations (Rosofsky et al. 2019).