Seminar 1 | Air quality, asthma and addressing pollution-related health issues with healthcare professionals

A seminar session looking at the health impacts of air pollution and how causation and mitigation can be better communicated through health professionals.’

Some of the most vulnerable in society are being disproportionally impacted by toxic air on a daily basis. In a recent Asthma + Lung UK survey of people living with lung conditions, almost half of all respondents indicated they avoid exercising outdoors when air pollution is worse and almost a third indicated that they avoid holidays in areas where pollution is worse, while a third don’t leave the house at all.  In this session we discussed the impact that poor air quality is having on respiratory health of communities across the UK. as well as Ella’s Law, which is currently being debated by MPs in the House of Commons and, if adopted, could improve air quality for everyone. 

Hosted by Professor Frank Kelly, Battcock Chair in Community Health and Policy and Director, Environmental Research Group

Speakers:

Dr Paul Pfeffer, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust

Dr Abigail Whitehouse, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London

Dr Sarah Woolnough, Asthma and Lung UK

Chair: Professor Andrew Bush, Professor of Paediatrics & Paediatric Respirology, National Heart and Lung Institute and Director, Imperial Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health

Special guest: Ms Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah.