2025 Award Winner
Rainfall events and daily mortality across 645 global locations: two stage time series analysis
BMJ 2024; 387:e080944
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ISEE Annual Award
Best Environmental Epidemiology Paper Award
Recognizing excellence in environmental epidemiology and outstanding peer-reviewed research that advances the field.
About the Award
Recognizing Outstanding Research
The BEEP Award celebrates exceptional scientific publications that make an important contribution to environmental epidemiology.
The ISEE Best Environmental Epidemiology Paper (BEEP) Award recognizes excellence in peer-reviewed environmental epidemiology research and encourages the publication of outstanding papers. The winning paper is selected by the BEEP Award Subcommittee and approved by the ISEE Executive Council.
Quality Data, analyses, presentation and argument
Originality Innovative ideas and approaches
Impact Importance and potential influence
Relevance Contribution to environmental epidemiology
Nominations
2026 Cycle Closed
How to Nominate a Paper
Authors, editors and readers may nominate outstanding papers. Papers considered for the 2026 award were required to have been published between January 1 and December 31, 2025.
A nomination includes:
- A nomination letter
- A copy of the paper
- A brief 50–100 word statement explaining the specific aspect of the paper that makes it outstanding
2026 nomination deadline: March 15, 2026
Celebrating Excellence
Recent Award Winners
Explore the three most recent papers recognized by ISEE for outstanding contributions to environmental epidemiology.
2024 Award Winner
Racial and ethnic disparities in phthalate exposure and preterm birth: A pooled study of 16 US cohorts
Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 131, Issue 12, December 2023
View Paper → 2023 Award Winner
Long-term exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations and mortality among 28 million people: results from seven large European cohorts within the ELAPSE project
The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 6, Issue 1, E9–E18, January 2022
View Paper →Award History
Previous Winners Archive
Select a year below to view past BEEP Award recipients, joint winners, runners-up and honorable mentions.
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2022 Award Winner
Association Between Gestational Exposure to Toxicants and Autistic Behaviors Using Bayesian Quantile Regression
American Journal of Epidemiology , September 2021, Vol. 190, Issue 9
2021 Award Winner & Honorable Mentions Multiple Papers
Mercury exposure and premature mortality in the Grassy Narrows First Nation community: a retrospective longitudinal study
The Lancet Planetary Health, Vol. 4, Issue 4, April 2020
Honorable Mention
Socioeconomic level and associations between heat exposure and all-cause and cause-specific hospitalization in 1,814 Brazilian cities: A nationwide case-crossover study
Honorable Mention
Changing the urban design of cities for health: The superblock model
Environment International
Honorable Mention
Improved asthma outcomes observed in the vicinity of coal power plant retirement, retrofit and conversion to natural gas
Nature Energy
Honorable Mention
Within-city Spatial Variations in Ambient Ultrafine Particle Concentrations and Incident Brain Tumors in Adults
Epidemiology
Honorable Mention
Various Types of Perceived Job Discrimination and Sleep Health Among Working Women: Findings From the Sister Study
American Journal of Epidemiology
Honorable Mention
Short term association between ozone and mortality: global two stage time series study in 406 locations in 20 countries
BMJ
2020 Joint Winners Joint Award
Acute Air Pollution Exposure and the Risk of Violent Behavior in the United States
Epidemiology, Vol. 30, Issue 6, November 2019
Short term exposure to fine particulate matter and hospital admission risks and costs in the Medicare population: time stratified, case crossover study
BMJ, November 27, 2019
2019 Winner & Runners-Up
Empirical Evidence of Mental Health Risks Posed by Climate Change
PNAS , October 23, 2018, Vol. 115, Issue 43
Runner Up
Association Between Ambient Temperature and Mortality Risk and Burden: Time Series Study in 272 Main Chinese Cities
BMJ , Vol. 363, October 31, 2018
Runner Up
Prenatal Exposure to DDT and Pyrethroids for Malaria Control and Child Neurodevelopment: The VHEMBE Cohort, South Africa
Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 126, April 2018
2018 Award Winner
A cleaner burning biomass-fuelled cookstove intervention to prevent pneumonia in children under 5 years old in rural Malawi
The Lancet 2017; 389: 167–175
2017 Award Winner
Association between Air Pollution and Coronary Artery Calcification within Six Metropolitan Areas in the USA: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
The Lancet; 388: 696–704, August 13, 2016
2016 Award Winner
Mortality Risk Attributable to High and Low Ambient Temperature: a Multicountry Observational Study
The Lancet , 386: 369–375
2015 Award Winner
Lung Function and Incidence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease after Improved Cooking Fuels and Kitchen Ventilation: A 9-Year Prospective Cohort Study
2014 Award Winner
Does Ambient Air Pollution Trigger Stillbirth?
Epidemiology, 24(4):538–544, July 2013
2013 Award Winner
Birth Weight, Head Circumference, and Prenatal Exposure to Acrylamide from Maternal Diet: The European Prospective Mother-Child Study
Environmental Health Perspectives, December 2012; 120:1739–1745
2011 Award Winner
Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks
PLOS ONE , September 2010
2010 Award Winner
Fine-Particulate Air Pollution and Life Expectancy in the United States
New England Journal of Medicine, January 22, 2009; 360:376–386
2009 Award Winner
Heat Effects on Mortality in 15 European Cities
Epidemiology , 2008;19:711–719