This group works at the interface between the science of air quality and policy. It works closely with all other teams in ERG but particularly the Air Pollution Modelling, Measurement and Air Pollution Epidemiology teams.
Research
Members of the team have extensive experience in advising UK and international policy on air quality, including issues around air quality and health. Recent research in this area has involved the impact of climate policy on air quality and health, the prospects for achieving current WHO air quality guidelines for PM2.5, personalised health impact statements and a range of health impact analyses.
Members of the team are active in advising government, MW is a member of Defra’s Air Quality Expert Group, HW is a member of the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP), chair of the COMEAP sub-group on quantification of air pollution risk and an adviser to WHO. MW also advises Defra and the Welsh Government on their respective air quality Bills and chairs the Defra/DfT/JAQU Technical Panel on Local Authority air quality action plans. He also co-chairs the WHO air quality Guideline Development Group. MW is one of the three Strategic Priority Fund Clean Air Programme air quality ‘Champions’.
Recent or ongoing major research projects
- APEx: An Air Pollution Exposure model to integrate protection of vulnerable groups into the UK Clean Air Programme
- AIRLESS: The Effects Of AIR Pollution On Cardiopulmonary Disease In Urban & Peri-Urban Residents In Beijing
- Breathe London: Wearables
- Cognitive DeveLopment in the Urban Environment (The CLUE study)
- COPE: Characterisation of COPD exacerbations using environmental exposure modelling
- DEMiSt – The driver Diesel Exposure Mitigation Study
- DREaM: Component-Specific Air pollutant Drivers of Disease Risk in Early to Midlife: a pathway approach
- EPOCH - The impact of the Environment and Pollution On Cognitive Health
- HKD3D – A Dynamic 3D exposure model for Hong Kong
- IDEA-AIR network – an interdisciplinary international collaboration to investigate the role of air pollution in the development of depression in adolescence
- MELONS - Investigating the consequences of measurement error of gradually more sophisticated long-term personal exposure models in assessing health effects
- PRECISE-DYAD: linking maternal and infant health trajectories in sub-Saharan Africa
- STEAM – Spatio-Temporal Exposure Assessment Methods for estimating the health effects of air pollution
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