Westminster Commission for Road Air Quality Air Health Working Party

Time: 13:00 -14:30

Chair: Professor Sir Stephen Holgate, Chair of Air Health Working Party, Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology, University of Southampton

1. Meeting protocol – Sally Cumner, Executive Director, WCRAQ 
2. Opening – Barry Sheerman, MP for Huddersfield 
3. Introduction to Air Health – Professor Sir Stephen Holgate, Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology, University of Southampton
4. Presentation: Cognitive decline, dementia and air pollution – Professor Frank J  Kelly PhD, FRSB, FRSC, FKC, FMedSci, Imperial College London    
5. Questions and answers/ debate
6. Establish future actions for the Commission and Members – Professor Sir Stephen Holgate, Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology, University of Southampton 
7. Close – Barry Sheerman, MP for Huddersfield 

‘Dementia is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, global challenge for health and social care in the 21st century. The Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP) reviewed many studies. It concluded that it is likely that air pollution contributes to a decline in mental ability and dementia in older people.’– Frank Kelly, Imperial College London   

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