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RSPH reported our group's contribution to the 2020 Lancet Countdown global report in estimating population direct exposure to wildfires and population risks to wildfires. Since 2019, We have served as a reviewer of the Lancet Countdown US Country Brief and Emory has been an official sponsor of the Lancet Countdown US launch. 

This project was funded by the NASA Applied Science Program to generate secondary data product using NASA satellite data for societal benefits. Led by Emory, the research team include researchers from CDC and University of Iowa. The full publication led by CDC researchers can be found here.