Dr. Manjourides is the lead biostatistician on several studies examining the impact of air pollution and neighborhood exposures on health outcomes. He and his research team have made several significant contributions to our field, including the first study to report increased odds of moderate to severe depression associated with air pollution exposure, and that mood disorders may mediate the effects of air pollution on cognitive impairment—the first study to report significant associations between air pollution and anemia. Already the team has been able to leverage a large real-world dataset to demonstrate, for the first time, that increased exposure to air pollution was associated with increased risk of respiratory, pneumonia and COPD mortality. Long-Term PM2.5 Exposure and Respiratory, Cancer, and Cardiovascular Mortality in Older US Adults.