A. Scott VOORHEES works as an Environmental Scientist on air pollution economic and policy issues at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Mr. Voorhees received his Bachelor’s Degree from Wittenberg University, Master’s Degree from Miami University and Ph.D. in public health benefit-cost analysis from Tokyo University. He has anextensive history working on air pollution regulatory and policy issues for the EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. Mr. Voorhees has experience in toxic air pollutant standard setting, industrial source air pollution permitting (including pollution emergency response planning), and Asian urban air pollution benefit-cost analyses. He is a two time EPA Gold Medal recipient (EPA’s highest achievement award), and has received two US Government Fulbright research fellowships, and he was awarded a Japanese Government Abe Fellowship. Mr. Voorhees was recently selected to receive a Science Achievement Award for Environmental Economics.

For the past half decade, Mr. Voorhees has been working on US - China bilateral activities related to regional air quality management under the auspices of the China Ministry of Environmental Protection - US EPA collaboration. He was a major contributor to the US - China Joint Economic Study (Strategic and Economic Dialogue) and now serve on a team dedicated to developing and applying EPA’s official air pollution benefits model “BenMAP - CE” (Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program-Community Edition) and applying that model in Asian countries. In 2012, He completed a Fulbright Fellowship research project at Tsinghua University estimating the health impacts of air pollution in Shanghai and the economic value of those impacts.

Papers

Voorhees AS, Wang J-D, Wang C-C, Zhao B,Wang S-X, Kan H-D. (2014). Public health benefits of reducing air pollution in Shanghai: A proof-of-concept methodology with application to BenMAP. Science of the Total Environment 485-486:396-405.

Voorhees AS, Fann N, Fulcher C, Dolwick P,Hubbell B, Bierwagen B, Morefield P. (2011). Climate change-related temperature impacts on warm season heat mortality:  A proof-of-concept methodology using BenMAP. Environmental Science & Technology 45:1450-1457.

Wang L, Jang C, Zhang Y, Wang K, Zhang Q,Streets D, Fu J, Lei Y, Schreifels J, He K, Hao J, Lam Y-F, Lin J, Meskhidze N,Voorhees S, Evarts D, Phillips S. (2010). Assessment of air quality benefits from national air pollution control policies in China. Part I: Background, emission scenarios and evaluation of meteorological predictions. Atmospheric Environment 44:3442-3448.

Wang L, Jang C, Zhang Y, Wang K, Zhang Q,Streets D, Fu J, Lei Y, Schreifels J, He K, Hao J, Lam Y-F, Lin J, Meskhidze N,Voorhees S, Evarts D, Phillips S. (2010). Assessment of air quality benefits from national air pollution control policies in China. Part II: Evaluation of air quality predictions and air quality benefits assessment. Atmospheric Environment 44:3449-3457.

Voorhees AS, Kim Oanh NT, Pongkiatkul P,Kim YS, Jinsart W, Uchiyama I, Limpaseni W. (2008). Particulate matter air pollution reduction scenarios in Osaka, Houston, Bangkok and Seoul --  A prospective health benefits analysis. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 10:265-289.

Voorhees AS, Uchiyama I. (2008) Particulate matter air pollution control programs in Japan -- An analysis of cost savings in the absence of future remediation. Journal of Risk Research 11:395-408.

Voorhees AS, Uchiyama I. (2008) Particulate matter air pollution control programs in Japan. An analysis of health risks in the absence of future remediation. Journal of Risk Research 11:409-421.

Voorhees AS, Uchiyama I. (2007). Costanalysis of particulate matter control programs -- A case study of Tokyo. Journal of Risk Research 10:759-772.

Voorhees AS, Kim Oanh NT, Pongkiatkul P,Kim YS, Jinsart W, Uchiyama I, Limpaseni W. (2006). Particulate matter air pollution reduction scenarios in Osaka, Houston, Bangkok and Seoul --  A prospective health benefits analysis, Technical Paper, December 12-14, 2006. Better Air Quality-Asia 2006 Conference, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Voorhees AS. (2006). Review process of PM standards in the USA and relevance for Asia, Technical Paper, December 12-14, 2006. Better Air Quality-Asia 2006 Conference, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Voorhees AS. (2005). Benefits analysis of particulate matter control programs -- A case study of Tokyo, Journal of Risk Research 8:311-329.

Voorhees AS. (2004). Feasibility of cost benefit analysis for particulate matter air pollution control in Japan. The International Journal of Environmental Studies 61:315-325.

Otsu A, Araki S, Sakai R, Yokoyama K, Voorhees AS. (2004). Effects of urbanization, economic development, and migration of workers on suicide mortality in Japan. Social Science & Medicine 58:1137-1146.

Voorhees AS, Sakai R, Araki S, Sato H, OtsuA. (2001). Cost-benefit analysis methods for assessing air pollution control programs in urban environments - A review. Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 6:63-73. [Ranked number 2 by BioMedLib among articles published on this topic since 2001.]

VoorheesAS, Sakai R, Araki S, Sato H, Otsu A. (2001). Benefits analysis of nitrogen dioxide control programmes:  A case study of Chiyoda‑ku, Tokyo. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 44:149-165.

Report

US - China Joint Economic Research Group (2007). US-China Joint Economic Study:  Economic analyses of energy saving and pollution abatement policies for the electric power sectors of China and the United States Summary for Policy makers. Report prepared under the US-China Strategic Economic Dialogue, presented to the Minister of China’s Ministry of Environment and the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, December 2007.