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Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source BioMed Central Research Open Access The air quality impacts of road closures associated with the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston † † Jonathan I Levy*, Lisa K Baxter and Jane E Clougherty Address: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Center 4th Floor West, P.O. Box 15677, Boston, MA, 02215, USA Email: Jonathan I Levy* - jilevy@; Lisa K Baxter - lbaxter@; Jane E Clougherty - jcloughe@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 26 May 2006 Received: 22 November 2005 Accepted: 26 May 2006 Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2006, 5:16 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-5- 16 This article is available from: /content/5/1/16 © 2006 Levy et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Boston, Massachusetts in 2004 provided an opportunity to evaluate the impacts of a localized and short-term but potentially significant change in traffic patterns on air quality, and to determine the optimal monitoring approach to address event