Deployment to Military Bases With Open Burn Pits and Mental Health Conditions and Injury Mortality Among US Veterans

Christian Hoover¹, Amal N Trivedi, Anila Bello+10

• ¹From the Department of Epidemiology, Brown School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island (C.H., R.G., D.A.S.); Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (C.H.); Center of Innovation in Long-term Services and Supports for Vulnerable Veterans, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island (A.N.T., L.J.); Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island (A.N.T.); Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts (A.B., S.R.W.); Epidemiology Program, Health Outcomes of Military Exposures, Veteran Health Administration, Washington, District of Columbia (W.J.C., A.S.); University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (W.J.C.); Home Base Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, Massachusetts (G.G.H.); Westat, Rockville, Maryland (J.G.); Safety and Occupational Health Applied Sciences Department, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire (C.R.); Alexa Research and Engineering, Washington, District of Columbia (C.R.); and Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (G.A.W.).