Anne C. Steinemann

Anne C. Steinemann is an American civil and environmental engineering academic who has specialized chiefly in the fields of "healthy built environments, indoor air quality, consumer product emissions and exposures, drought management, and climate-related hazards", with a focus on engineering and sustainability.[1][2] Currently professor of civil engineering at the University of Melbourne and professor of engineering at James Cook University, she has also advised numerous government and industry bodies in the United States and Australia and appeared widely in press, radio, television and website segments communicating her findings to the general public.[3][4][5][6][7]

Anne C. Steinemann
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known for
Scientific career
FieldsCivil engineering, environmental engineering
Institutions

Early life and education

In 1984 she graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a B.S. (magna cum laude) in civil and environmental engineering. In 1985 she graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a M.S. in civil and environmental engineering. In 1993 she was awarded a Ph.D. by Stanford University in civil and environmental engineering.[8]

Career

Steinemann began her professional career as an assistant/associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (1995-2004), professor of civil and environmental engineering and professor of public affairs at the University of Washington (2004–13), and program manager at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2012–15).

She was appointed as acting/visiting professor at Linköping University (1988–89), Florida Institute of Technology (2001-12), and Stanford University (2010–11).

From 2015 she has been professor of civil engineering in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne. From 2018 she has also been professor of engineering and chair of sustainable infrastructure at James Cook University, Australia.[4][9]

In 2023, Steinemann was named in Stanford University's list of the top 2% of scientists and engineers, worldwide.[10]

Pollutant exposures, indoor air quality, fragranced consumer products

Since 2007 Steinemann has focused much of her research on "pollutant exposures and associated health effects, including topics of indoor air quality, consumer product testing and evaluation, exposure assessment, and healthy homes and communities".[11]

She has published research papers and monographs on the health effects of fragranced products (such as perfume, household cleaners, laundry supplies, personal care products, scented candles and air fresheners), concluding that those products "impair rather than improve indoor air quality" and "pose a range of health and economic risks".[12][13]

She has found that emissions of carcinogenic and hazardous air pollutants from "green", "organic" and "all-natural" fragranced products were not significantly different from regular fragranced products.[14][15][16][17]

Furthermore, she has noted that "relatively few ingredients of the fragranced product emissions" are "disclosed to the public", that "more than 156 VOCs were emitted from the 37 fragranced consumer products" examined by her, and that of those "156 VOCs, 42 VOCs were classified as toxic or hazardous under US federal laws, and each product emitted at least one of these chemicals".[18][19] However, of more than 550 volatile ingredients emitted from these products, fewer than three percent were disclosed on any label or safety data sheet.[20]

Her nationally representative population studies found that 34.7% of adults in the US, 33.0% in Australia, 33.1% in Sweden, and 27.8% of people in the United Kingdom report adverse health effects from exposure to fragranced products.[21] Adverse health effects include asthma attacks, breathing difficulties, migraine headaches, dizziness, seizures, rashes, and gastrointestinal problems.[21] The effects are also economic with "more than 20% of respondents entering a business, but leaving as quickly as possible if they smell air fresheners or some fragranced product".[18][22]

Further, 15.1% of Americans report they lost workdays or lost a job, in the previous year, due to illness from fragranced product exposure in the workplace. Personal costs due to these lost workdays and lost jobs were estimated at $132 billion in one year (2016).[23][24][14]

Health effects from exposure to fragranced products can be so severe as to be disabling, according to her studies. Across the four countries (US, Australia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom), 9.5% of the general population report adverse health effects that could be considered disabling, according to legislation in each country.[23][24][14]

Fragrance-free environments were preferred by a strong majority of the population across four countries, as her studies found. For instance, more than twice as many people would prefer that workplaces, health care facilities and professionals, hotels, and airplanes were fragrance-free rather than fragranced.[24][14]

Awards
  • 2014 - Science Service Award - Department of Water Resources (State of California), for developing "useful science" to "bridge between the academic research community and practitioners".[25][26]
  • 2011 - Engineer of the New Millennium - National Science Foundation.[27][28]
  • 1998 - CAREER Award - National Science Foundation.[29]

Bibliography

Books
  • Fragranced Consumer Products: Emissions, Exposures, Effects by Anne Steinemann. 2020.
  • Microeconomics for Public Decisions by Anne Steinemann. 3rd edition, 2018 (earlier editions: 1st edition, Mason, Ohio: Thomson/South-Western, 2005; 2nd edition, Menlo Park, California: Askmar Publishing, 2010). Co-authors for 1st edition: William C. Apgar and H. James Brown.
  • Exposure Analysis. Edited by Wayne R. Ott, Anne C. Steinemann and Lance A. Wallace. Boca Raton, Florida: Taylor & Francis, 2006; Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 2007.

Articles

For an extensive listing of articles in refereed journals, see: Publications.

Lectures, Documentaries

See: Public Lectures and Documentaries

Media Coverage and Interviews

See: Media Coverage - in international print and electronic media

References
  1. Anne Steinemann, peerj.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  2. Steinemann CV 2018, nebula.wsimg.com. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  3. Anne C. Steinemann Archived 2017-01-07 at the Wayback Machine, askmarpublishing.com. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  4. Anne Steinemann, unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  5. Steinemann Bio, Environmental Health Trust, ehtrust.org. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  6. Prof. Anne Steinemann, unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  7. Prof Anne Steinemann: Research Profile, jcu.edu.au. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  8. Anne Steinemann CV, February 2015, unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
  9. Prof. Anne Steinemann - The University of Melbourne, unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  10. October 2023 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators", elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  11. About, drsteinemann.com. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  12. Sarah Berry, "Fragranced products are making us sick, study finds", Sydney Morning Herald, 6–7 March 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  13. Anne Steinemann, "Health and societal effects from exposure to fragranced consumer products", Preventative Medicine Reports, Elsevier, Vol. 5, March 2017, pp. 45-47. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  14. Anne Steinemann,"The fragranced products phenomenon: air quality and health, science and policy", Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health (2020). Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  15. Steinemann, Anne (2015-06-01). "Volatile emissions from common consumer products". Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health. 8 (3): 273–281. doi:10.1007/s11869-015-0327-6. ISSN 1873-9326.
  16. Kate Grenville, The Case Against Fragrance, Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2017, p. 69. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  17. The Case Against Fragrance: Kate Grenville and Gia Metherell, National Library of Australia, nla.gov.au, 20 February 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  18. Anne Steinemann, "Fragranced consumer products: exposures and effects from emissions", Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, December 2016, Vol. 9, Issue 8, pp 861–866.
  19. Wendy Koch, "Scented products emit products not on the label", The Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 November 2010, p. 32.
  20. Steinemann, Anne (2015-06-01). "Volatile emissions from common consumer products". Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health. 8 (3): 273–281. doi:10.1007/s11869-015-0327-6. ISSN 1873-9326.
  21. Selected Publications by Dr. Steinemann, drsteinemann.com. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  22. "Fragranced products: Risks for people and profits?", sciencedaily.com. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  23. Anne Steinemann, "International prevalence of fragrance sensitivity", Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, vol. 12, pp. 891–897 (2019). Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  24. Anne Steineman, "Ten questions concerning fragrance-free policies and indoor environments", Building and Environment, Vol. 159, 15 July 2019, 106054. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  25. DWR Science Service Awards Archived 2018-05-13 at the Wayback Machine, ca.gov. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  26. Anne Steinemann, jcu.edu.au. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  27. Special Report: Engineers of the New Millennium, nsf.gov. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  28. NSF Award Serc: Advanced Search Results, nsf.gov. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  29. Florida Today, 6 March 2001, p. 39.
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