Clean Cooking Implementation Science Network (ISN)

2020

2020 coincided with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the context of worldwide disruptions to economies, distribution networks, and employment, the Clean Cooking ISN funded five projects to investigate the resilience of household energy supply to the adjustments required during the pandemic. The goal of these projects was to gather lessons from the effects of the pandemic period - and adaptations that occurred as a result - with an eye to strategies that could be implemented to increase the resilience of the household energy sector to future shocks and disruptions.

• Impact of COVID-19 on households’ energy use in Ghana
  Project PI:
  Kwaku Poku Asante (Kintampo Health Research Centre)
• Resilient Clean Cooking: Maintaining Household Clean Cooking in Ecuador during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Project PIs:
  Darby Jack (Columbia University)
  Alfredo Valarezo (Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador)
• How resilient is clean cooking in Kenya? Generating evidence through household surveys and industry interviews
  Project PI:
  Pamela Jagger (University of Michigan)
• COVID-19 and household energy: Demand and supply side shocks to Tanzania’s objective of transitioning to clean and affordable energy
  Project PIs:
  Marc Jeuland (Duke University)
  Megan Benka-Coker (Gettsburg College)
  Byela Tibesigwa and Remidius Ruhinduka (Environment for Development- Tanzania/University of Dar es Salaam)
• Using repeat surveys to assess the impact of COVID‐19 on household energy use in Jharkhand, India
  PIs:
  Lisa Thompson and Ajay Pillarisetti (Emory University)

In 2020, the Clean Cooking ISN also supported inception of a multi-community sensor network to investigate the relationship between cooking behaviors, household emissions and ambient air pollution in Tamil Nadu, India.

• Assessing the role of LPG coverage at scale to achieve household air pollution and ambient air pollution exposure reductions using hyper-local, low-cost PM2.5 sensor networks: implications for the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana program in India
  PIs:
  Kalpana Balakrishnan (Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, India)
  Ajay Pillarisetti (Emory University)

2019

New projects begun in 2019 were focused on understanding the optimal mix of clean cooking technologies feasible in different LMIC settings. This area was prioritized for 2019 based on the results of prior Clean Cooking ISN work, especially the 2018 case studies and subsequent synthesis papers highlighting the ubiquity of stove and fuel stacking (multiple stove/fuel use) and the challenges posed by this practice to reducing exposure to household air pollution.

• Stackable clean cooking in rural Rwanda: Enhancing a solar micro-grid and LPG stove intervention.
  Project PIs:
  Maggie Clark and John Volckens (Colorado State University)
• Real Option Strategies for Achieving Scale (ROSAS)
  Project PIs:
  Peter Hovmand (Washington University)
  Gautam Yadama (Boston College)
• Feasibility of Scaling “Clean Stacking” Options in Southern Africa
  Project PIs:
  Robert Bailis (Stockholm Environment Institute)
  Pamela Jagger (University of Michigan)
• Clean stacking in Ecuador: Investigating how induction changes household energy use and HAP exposures across scales
  Project PIs:
  Darby Jack (Columbia University)
  Alfredo Valarezo (Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador)
• Constructing a clean cookstove stack in Ghana
  Project PIs:
  Kwaku Poku Asante (Ghana Health Service, Kintampo Research Center)
  Darby Jack (Columbia University)
• Clean Stacking Options and Regional IAP Scenarios for Rural Mexico
  Project PIs:
  Omar Masera (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
  Rufus Edwards (University of California, Irvine)
• Investigating Factors Influencing Household Transitions to Clean Energy Use
  Project PIs:
  Hisham Zerriffi (University of British Columbia)
  Jill Baumgartner (McGill University)

2018

In 2018, the Clean Cooking ISN focused on model development and analytical tools, as well as training workshops to extend the learning of the network to the broader HAP community.

• Improving Stove Use Monitoring with Better Tools and Workshops (Pune, India)
  Project PI:
  Ajay Pillarisetti, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)
• Workshop on Household Energy Impact Evaluation (WHEIE) (Aurora, Colorado, USA)
  Project PIs:
  Ellison Carter, Ph.D. (Colorado State University)
  Katherine Dickinson, Ph.D. (Colorado School of Public Health)
• System Science Training Workshop for Clean Cooking GEOHealth Researchers and Practitioners (Udiapur, India)
  Project PI:
  Gautam Yadama, Ph.D. (Boston College)
• Model development of intensive exposure sampling sub-sample of the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial population
  Project PI:
  Michael Johnson, Ph.D. (Berkeley Air)
• Evaluating LPG Consumption Behavior: Identifying and testing conservation strategies to maximize affordability and sustainability of exclusive LPG use
  Project PI:
  William Checkley, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University)
• Building capacity to evaluate clean cooking in Ecuador
  Project PIs:
  Alfredo Valarezo, Ph.D. (Universidad San Francisco de Quito)
  Darby Jack, Ph.D. (Columbia University)
• Understanding the HAP impacts of alternative stove, fuel and cooking practices stacking patterns
  Project PI:
  Omar Masera, Ph.D. (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
• Slicing the Exposure Pie: Modeling Personal HAP Exposure Attributable to Multiple Sources in Ghana
  Project PI:
  Michael Hannigan, Ph.D. (Colorado School of Public Health)
• Integration of System Science Approaches to Enhance Understanding of Adoption and Sustained Use of Clean Cookstoves in Humanitarian Settings in Rwanda
  Project PI:
  Anita Shankar, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University)

2016-2017

In 2016-2017, the network focused its initial projects on cookstove adoption behavior at the household level.

• Enhancing adoption and use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG): an implementation science approach to understanding key determinants and impacts of local interventions to address financial constraints
  The LPG Adoption in Cameroon Evaluation-2 Study (LACE-2)
  Project PIs:
  Daniel Pope, Ph.D. (University of Liverpool)
  Bertrand Mbatchou, M.D. (Douala General Hospital)
• Enhancing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) use during pregnancy
  Project PIs:
  Kalpana Balakrishnan, Ph.D. (Sri Ramachandra University)
  Sanjay Juvekar, Ph.D. (KEM Hospital Research Centre)
  Kirk Smith, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)
• Prices, peers and perceptions: opportunities for scaling up liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) adoption in Northern Ghana
  Project PIs:
  Abraham Oduro, M.D., Ph.D. (Navrongo Health Research Centre)
  Maxwell Dalaba, Ph.D. (Navrongo Health Research Centre)
  Katie Dickinson, Ph.D. (University of Colorado-Boulder and National Center for Atmospheric Research)
• Understanding household, network and organizational drivers of adoption, sustained use and maintenance of clean cooking fuels in rural India
  Project PIs:
  Gautam Yadama, Ph.D. (Washington University in St. Louis)
  William Checkley, M.D., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University)

2021

• Coffey ER, Mesenbring EC, Dalaba M, Ago D, Alirigia R, Begay T, Moro A, Oduro A, Brown Z, Dickinson KL, Hannigan MP. A glimpse into real-world kitchens: Improving our understanding of cookstove usage through in-field photo-observations and improved cooking event detection (CookED) analytics, Development Engineering, Volume 6 (2021).
• Kumar, P, Liam McCafferty L,  Dhand A, Rao S,  Díaz-Valdés A, Tabak RG, Brownson RC, and Yadama GN. (2021). Association of personal network attributes with clean cooking adoption in rural  South India. Environ. Res. Lett. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0746
• Schilmann, Astrid. Víctor Manuel Ruiz-García, Montserrat Serrano-Medrano, Luz Angelica de la Sierra de la Vega, Belén Olaya, Jesús Alejandro Estevez-García, Victor Manuel Berrueta, Horacio Riojas-Rodríguez and Omar Masera. 2021. Just and fair household energy transition in rural Latin American households: Are we moving forward? Environmental Research Letters 16, 105012. 

2020

• Harrell BS, Pillarisetti A, Roy S, Ghorpade M, Patil R, Dhongade A, Smith KR, Levine DI, Juvekar S. Incentivizing Elimination of Biomass Cooking Fuels with a Reversible Commitment and a Spare LPG Cylinder. Environ Sci Technol. 2020 Dec 1;54(23):15313-15319. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c01818. Epub 2020 Nov 13. PMID: 33185424.
• Rosenthal J, Arku RE, Baumgartner J, Brown J, Clasen T, Eisenberg JNS, Hovmand P, Jagger P, Luke DA, Quinn A, Yadama GN. Systems Science Approaches for Global Environmental Health Research: Enhancing Intervention Design and Implementation for Household Air Pollution (HAP) and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Programs. Environ Health Perspect. 2020 Oct;128(10):105001. doi: 10.1289/EHP7010. Epub 2020 Oct 9. PMID: 33035121; PMCID: PMC7546437.
• Pye A, Ronzi S, Mbatchou Ngahane BH, Puzzolo E, Ashu AH, Pope D. Drivers of the Adoption and Exclusive Use of Clean Fuel for Cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learnings and Policy Considerations from Cameroon. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Aug 13;17(16):5874.
• Gould, Carlos F., Samuel B. Schlesinger, Emilio Molina, Lorena Bejarano, Alfredo Valarezo, and Darby W. Jack. 2020. Household fuel mixes in peri-urban and rural Ecuador: Explaining the context of LPG, patterns of continued firewood use, and the challenges of induction cooking. Energy Policy 136:111053.
• Carter, E., Yan, L., Fu, Y. et al. Household transitions to clean energy in a multiprovincial cohort study in China. Nat Sustain 3, 42–50 (2020).
• Rao, S.; Dahal, S.; Hadingham, S.; Kumar, P. Dissemination Challenges of Liquefied Petroleum Gas in Rural India: Perspectives from the Field. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2327.
• Everybody stacks: Lessons from household energy case studies to inform design principles for clean energy transitions. Anita V. Shankar, Ashlinn K. Quinn, Katherine L. Dickinson, Kendra N. Williams, Omar Masera, Dana Charron, Darby Jack, Jasmine Hyman, Ajay Pillarisetti, Rob Bailis, Praveen Kumar, Ilse Ruiz-Mercado, Joshua P. Rosenthal, Energy Policy, Volume 141, 2020,111468.
• Gould, C.F., Schlesinger, S.B., Molina, E. et al. Long-standing LPG subsidies, cooking fuel stacking, and personal exposure to air pollution in rural and peri-urban Ecuador. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 30, 707–720 (2020).
• Kumar P, Dover RE, Iriarte AD-V, Rao S, Garakani R, Hadingham S, et al. 2020. Affordability, accessibility, and awareness in the adoption of liquefied petroleum gas: A case-control study in rural india. Sustainability 12:4790.

2019

• Quinn, Ashlinn K., Gila Neta, Rachel Sturke, Christopher O. Olopade, Suzanne L. Pollard, Sherr. Kenneth, and Joshua P. Rosenthal. 2019. Adapting and Operationalizing the RE-AIM Framework for Implementation Science in Environmental Health: Clean Fuel Cooking Programs in Low Resource Countries. Front. Public Health.
• Puzzolo E, Zerriffi H, Carter E, Clemens H, Stokes H, Jagger P, et al. 2019. Supply considerations for scaling up clean cooking fuels for household energy in low‐ and middle‐ income countries. GeoHealth.
• Ronzi, S., et al., Using photovoice methods as a community-based participatory research tool to advance uptake of clean cooking and improve health: The LPG adoption in Cameroon evaluation studies. Soc Sci Med, 2019. 228: p. 30-40.
• Pillarisetti, A., et al., Promoting LPG usage during pregnancy: A pilot study in rural Maharashtra, India. Environ Int, 2019. 127: p. 540-549.
• Coffey , E.R., et al., Kitchen Area Air Quality Measurements in Northern Ghana: Evaluating the Performance of a Low-Cost Particulate Sensor within a Household Energy Study. Atmosphere, 2019. 10(7): p. 400.
• Medina P, Berrueta V, Cinco L, Ruiz-Garcia V, Edwards R, Olaya B, et al. 2019. Understanding household energy transitions: From evaluating single cookstoves to "clean stacking" alternatives. Atmosphere 10:693-707.

2018

• Thoday, K., et al., The Mega Conversion Program from kerosene to LPG in Indonesia: Lessons learned and recommendations for future clean cooking energy expansion. Energy for Sustainable Development, 2018. 46: p. 71-81.
• Rosenthal, J., et al., Clean cooking and the SDGs: Integrated analytical approaches to guide energy interventions for health and environment goals. Energy for Sustainable Development, 2018. 42(Supplement C): p. 152-159.
• Quinn, A.K., et al., An analysis of efforts to scale up clean household energy for cooking around the world. Energy for Sustainable Development, 2018. 46: p. 1-10.
• Pollard, S.L., et al., An evaluation of the Fondo de Inclusión Social Energético program to promote access to liquefied petroleum gas in Peru. Energy for Sustainable Development, 2018. 46: p. 82-93.
• Pillarisetti, A., et al., A Low-Cost Stove Use Monitor to Enable Conditional Cash Transfers. Ecohealth, 2018. 15(4): p. 768-776.
• Ozier, A., et al., Building a consumer market for ethanol-methanol cooking fuel in Lagos, Nigeria. Energy for Sustainable Development, 2018. 46: p. 65-70.
• Jagger, P. and I. Das, Implementation and scale-up of a biomass pellet and improved cookstove enterprise in Rwanda. Energy for Sustainable Development, 2018. 46: p. 32-41.
• Hyman, J. and R. Bailis, Assessment of the Cambodian National Biodigester Program. Energy for Sustainable Development, 2018. 46: p. 11-22.
• Gould, C.F., et al., Government policy, clean fuel access, and persistent fuel stacking in Ecuador. Energy for Sustainable Development, 2018. 46: p. 111-122.
• Dickinson, K.L., et al., Prices, peers, and perceptions (P3): study protocol for improved biomass cookstove project in northern Ghana. BMC Public Health, 2018. 18(1): p. 1209.
• Dalaba, M., et al., Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Supply and Demand for Cooking in Northern Ghana. EcoHealth, 2018. 15(4): p. 716-728.
• Clemens, H., et al., Africa Biogas Partnership Program: A review of clean cooking implementation through market development in East Africa. Energy for Sustainable Development, 2018. 46: p. 23-31.
• Carter, E., et al., Development of renewable, densified biomass for household energy in China. Energy for Sustainable Development, 2018. 46: p. 42-52.
• Bruce, N., et al., The Government-led initiative for LPG scale-up in Cameroon: Programme development and initial evaluation. Energy for Sustainable Development, 2018. 46: p. 103-110.
• Benka-Coker, M.L., et al., A case study of the ethanol CleanCook stove intervention and potential scale-up in Ethiopia. Energy for Sustainable Development, 2018. 46: p. 53-64.
• Asante, K.P., et al., Ghana's rural liquefied petroleum gas program scale up: A case study. Energy for Sustainable Development, 2018. 46: p. 94-102.

2017

• Rosenthal, J., et al., Implementation Science to Accelerate Clean Cooking for Public Health. Environ Health Perspect, 2017. 125(1): p. A3-A7.
• Kumar, P., et al., Adoption and sustained use of cleaner cooking fuels in rural India: a case control study protocol to understand household, network, and organizational drivers. Arch Public Health, 2017. 75: p. 70.